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Revision as of 18:52, 19 July 2008

MindMap for this page. Click to enlarge.

I'll write the content as full paragraphs later. You can help by formatting the headings ;-) Nah, I'll do it. Thanks anyway. :-)

Please, use the "discussion" tab to add your comments and ideas. I just need some time to write all this done. Thanks for your patience.

Oh, and much thanks to L and V for their ideas, comments and support.

LucasG 11:21, 19 July 2008 (PDT)


This Map

Why

Context

  • 6 ways to die
    • Hunger and Thirst, directly
    • Too hot and Too cold, food gives shade, shelter and fuel
    • Disease, food gives nutrition and farmacy, and waste treatment is good for health
    • Injury, food gives shelter and more importantly one less reason to fight each other
  • Food just grows vs Food systems are ill
    • Globalised
      • External dependency
      • Just In Time = No Stocks
      • Economic efficiency = No Redundancy
      • Cheap food != Good for you
    • Outcome
      • Poverty
      • Bad health
      • Supply risk
  • Levels from individual to global
    • Individual, household, town (50% FAO?) < 10 km (walk, bike)
    • Region (25% FAO?) < 100 km (car, truck)
    • World (25% or less FAO?) > 100 km (boats, trains, planes)

Aim

  • Food: 2000 cal/person-day
  • Water: 15 liters/person-day
  • Irrigation: 100 liters/person-day?

Goal = Help

  • Assess
    • Present situation
    • Assetts
    • Distance to horizon
    • Blockage points
    • First steps
  • Change
    • Motivation
    • Design
    • Principles
    • Methods
    • Do
    • Help doers

Product = Deliverable

  • Open content
  • Text
  • Video
  • Translations

What

    * Food growth
      o Place
        - Land
          - Surface per yield
          - Surface per person
        - Containers
          - Square Foot Gardening
          - EarthBox
          - Bag Garden
          - KeyHole Garden
          - Vertical
      o Soil
        - Features
        - Mixtures
        - No-till
      o Nutrients
        - Companion plants, green compost
        - Compost, tea compost, humanure, chicken tractors, worms, algae
        - SolarCone, Akvo.org (sanitation)
        - Waste
          - Plants, Kitchen, Humans
      o Water
        - Rain catchment, Pyramid, Akvo.org (water)
        - SODIS, WaterCone, deep seawater (cold)
        - Pumps, Selfwatering methods
      o Seeds
        - Seedballing, networks, dry, store, select
        - Which crops?
          - Calories
          - Yield
          - Simple to grow
          - Robust crops
          - What do people use all over the world, and locally?
      o Protection
        - From
          - Sun, Wind, Pests, Excess water, Animals
        - With
          - Cover, other plants, chemicals, counterbugs, mulch
      o Time
        - 3-4 months or more
        - Seasonality - related to storage of food and seeds
      o Knowledge
        - Plants
        - Weather
      o Work
        - People
          - Attention
          - Bend back
          - Work seated
        - Tools
          - Simple
            - Cup, pencil, etc
          - Complicated
            - Irrigation system, LifeTrac, etc
          - Open design?
        - Kinds of work
          - plant, care, harvest, process
        - # Hours
        - # People
      o Climate-Weather
      o Non-plant food
        - What: eggs, meat (poultry, rabbits, pigs, cows), fish (sea, ponds, ferrocement tanks), fungi, algae
        - Nutrients, "housing" & care, process, market
    * Food system
      o Transport = catchment area
        - Walk <10 km (individual, town)
        - Bike < 30 km (individual, town)
        - Motor > 30 km (region, world)
      o Store
        - Cold
          - Pot in pot, deep sea water, in ground
        - Conserve
          - Solar dryer, Salt
      o Cook
        - Solar cooker, cushions, stoves
      o Economy
        - Price of food
        - Workers wages
        - Price of inputs
        - Taxes and subsidies
        - Local currencies
          - Buy local means Grow local
          - Fab Lab makes coins?
        - Futures markets = measure risk
        - Business oportunities
          - Grow, Food industries, Sell
          - Support with know-how, make tools, share tools
          - TTT = training, tools, trade
      o Regulations
        - Land
        - Food industries
        - Public health
        - Machinery
      o Mindset
        - Different people's points of view
        - I'm a farmer, I grow my food, We grow our food
        - Changes here are powerful (Donna Meadows)
        - Changes here may be beyond your sphere of influence

How

    * Global
      o DNA of the project
        - Define
        - Refine
        - Share
      o Aim = Usable Content
        - Text
          - 200 pages
        - Video
          - 10 hours
        - TV
          - 200 hours, see Vinay's project
      o License
        - Template: ask for open license: what, Why, What, How
        - If not, find open alternatives
        - If not, re-invent, re-photo, re-video
      o Ecosystem of cooperation **
        - Create content
        - Compile
        - Translate
          - dotsub.com
          - traduwiki.org
          - etc
        - Use
        - All benefit
          - like linux developers
          - linux user groups = local geeks
          - linux end users
    * Local
      o Motivation = Energy for Change
        - Want to
          - Mindset shift
        - Have to
          - Urgent need
      o Grow
      o Teach
      o Business
      o Science
      o People
        - Available time
        - Skills
      o Ecosystem of facilitation **
        - Accelerate
        - Leverage
        - Business model(s)
          - Open franchising
        - Transition
          - From fossil-based fertilisers and pesticides
          - From global to local
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