Eco April Alignment

Problem: Working with the "Gardeing Angels" (an association of primarily southern-born African American elders who plant flowers and vegetable and fruit gardens) the seniors and teens of the Detroit Summer organic gardening project have cleaned up vacent lots, turning them into thriving gardens, and built greenhouses out of recycled materials. The partnership not only creates a training ground for future community leaders, it also builds transgenerational relationships so that all age groups are inves...

Action: Detroit Summer is a multicultural, intergenerational, youth movement to rebuild, redefine and respirit Detroit from the ground up. Their main objective is to foster youth initiative through community beautification projects, visioning workshops, and intergenerational dialogues.   Services offered by the project: Learning how to make urban land hospitibale to growing vegetables, fruits, flowers Cultivation skills Learn what it takes to be a local farmer Community growth and com...

Problem: How can we help to kick-start the future energy efficiency development of the 3rd World and in the same manner approach helping US owners of foreclosed houses become self-sufficient and profitable small local green businesses?

Action: http://www.wiserearth.org/uploads/file/bfc2d4ddf476eddca901b6dab2b18b98/Beyond%202%20copy.pdf       New Ways out of the Housing Crisis                                 Ways out of the Mortgage crisis (Beyond a Citizen's suggestion)   What does it take to Change the World? Nothing! The World is always changing! What does it take to move the World toward where most would like it to be, ...

Problem: The Problem Arizona’s juvenile corrections system, behavioral health services, and educational environments are lacking successful programs to meet the needs for at-risk or challenged youth across all ethnic groups. It is likely that this situation can be applied nationally. Patterns of abuse continue to plague our society in growing numbers. Emotionally and physically jailed juveniles are simply not available to learn coping skills that help them survive and thrive as community member...

Action: The Solution The analogy of taking a fish out of a dirty fish tank, cleaning it off, and throwing it back in with expectations of survival and success applies here. We need more than a clean fish tank, we need a new aquarium. Spectrum Academy is that new aquarium, equipped to meet the needs of habilitating at-hope youth with skill and precision for the 21st Century, by harvesting historical values and restoring cultural and traditional foundations. 21st Century youth need 21st Century ...

Problem: humanity needs to revitalize its agriculture, while preserving the environment and enhancing human and ecological health.

Action: presents an introduction to biodynamic gardening/farming.

Problem: Due to excessive manipulation of the honeybees, humanity has decimated their populations.  The disappearance of the bees has far-reaching effects, for both the natural world and humanity.

Action: To return the bee populations, humanity must begin by studying overviews of the problem, versus narrow, reductionist solutions that are incapable of even perceiving the problem.  The Earth Vision project presents one such overview in its article  - Why the Bees are Dying - at http://www.evbooks.net/earth_vision_021.htm Visit the article and explore the many ways we have been interfering with the honeybee hiving process, and exprapolta...