People that live in undeveloped areas who have none or very little fuel, electricity, water, food, are highly creative, and try to get along with what little means they can find for the day. Some of their smallest ideas are very simple methods that save water and/or energy could easily be transfered, applied and do a visible change in economy and lifestyle for individuals in all the developed nations.
Because I know that some of the people in north and west can be behaving lazy, egoistic, taking for granted that energy, electricity, water and food is relatively cheap, abundant, available and affordable to waste.
The short-term purpose of this project is:
- to start spreading the information about the possibilities with improved cooking methods.
- try to create understanding about what we have that others don't.
- start to change minor routines and behavior among people to think in terms of solidarity and about their own use and waste. And that small amounts in many million homes will add up to a landslide.
- make people understand that any second of saving electricity will be of help and will become visible on the slightly lower bill from the power company. (promoting the Nega-watt-thinking)
The larger perspective is to:
- influence a change among plenty of individuals.
- make people start to save any percentage of electricity, time, water, energy.
- educate people how to shop smarter and to eat healthier.
- reduce the amount of appliances that is routinely built into modern homes.
- inspire many people to feel good about saving so they become eager to try to find other efficient ways and energy-saving methods in their lives.
- inspire others to start similar projects within other areas.
- try to learn a thing or two for myself.
This is the start of the project, at first it is simply personal (for me, the user : Yeahvle ) but I would appreciate additions later on, from other users that have some inspiration from cooking in many undeveloped parts of the world.
A personal ambition right now is to not mention anything about climate crisis, carbon footprint, environmental impact, side effects about waste or anything like that, that potentially could reduce the impact of this concept. I will use this mindset in a test to try if the focus of this project will be making it more easily adapted by everyone that is normally not interested in living green. I hope you will respect that ambition and follow along in my train of thought, for a while, it is only an effort of me to try to change the focus from the infected climate debate onto the solidarity to all other individuals living now and to those in the future.
At the moment I am trying to translate my texts about the methods and recipes. And to understand the rest of this wiki.
I, Yeahvle, was originally thinking about writing a book on this topic, without telling it is really a promotion for sustainability and green living in modern world, but I would like the information to become spread as fast as possible, and to as many as possible, and I have no interest of personal profit from this project.
So, at the moment I have just started this project page, and will gradually fill it with information and hopefully illustrations.
I hope this will be appreciated, and feel free to add your comments later as we go along. And please help me out with how and where I should "categorize" this project properly, because I want it to become well-known and spread to many, in order to help inspire and change behavior among many in north and western world.
And in a later stage I would like to have the opportunity to collect this project entirely in a book form (both the information aswell as the notes and discussions about how it was created) that I will try to print copies and sell at different outlets (second-hand-shops, thrift-stores, used-clothes-markets)
So if you add something/anything to this project, I hope that you will agree with the terms of Creative Commons licence and that you will get no profit at all from your contribution as I plan to donate all future income from this project.
I know that I am mostly writing from a personal point of view. Please have patience with me, i am trying to edit this as soon as i get accustomed with the wiki. (So I will not try to edit or work on any other pages, until I get the lingua franca.)
22:06, 19 November 2010 (UTC)