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)
1. This Map
* public domain 20080719
* LucasG
* www.globalswadeshi.net
2. Why
* Context
o 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
o 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
o 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
o Food: 2000 cal/person-day
o Water: 15 liters/person-day
o Irrigation: 100 liters/person-day?
* Goal = Help
o Assess
- Present situation
- Assetts
- Distance to horizon
- Blockage points
- First steps
o Change
- Motivation
- Design
- Principles
- Methods
- Do
- Help doers
* Product = Deliverable
o Open content
o Text
o Video
o Translations
3. 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
4. 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