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Updated: 29 days ago
Community Organic Gardening
Built greenhouses out of recycled materials,Detroit, USA
Built greenhouses out of recycled materials,Detroit, USA
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...
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...
Publisher:
Catalytic Communities (CatComm/ComCat)
Updated: 2 months ago
Ways out of the Housing Crisis
Beyond a People's Proposition
Beyond a People's Proposition
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, ...
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, ...
Publisher:
Anthony O. Endres
Updated: 7 months ago
Spectrum Academy
Empowering Challenged Youth
Empowering Challenged Youth
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 ...
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 ...
Publisher:
Zen Benefiel
Updated: 8 months ago
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.
Action: presents an introduction to biodynamic gardening/farming.
Updated: 9 months ago
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...
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...
Publisher:
Earth Vision



