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