Notes taken...2006

I'm spring cleaning, and throwing a lot of paper away - years of copious note-taking - it's hard to let go but I feel better if I can write certain bits of my notes down here. Walmart now controls as much wealth of 40% of the US population. The water needed to produce 1 lb of beef could be used to be in for months. Producer responsibility is a new idea in the US. In Brazil, in 1993, it was decided that food was now a right of citizenship. The city acts as convenor, bringing together business and labour - there were dozens of innovations of how to make food accessible - such as accessible priced food listed at bus stops. How the developing world is "holding" our natural way of doing things... We have to move from a carbon fossil economy to a living carbon economy. the fossil age has created a a mechanistic paradigm of thinking.. Soil not oil Preparing for climate change - eg farmers who have been forced to grow indigo for textiles for a national market, should now be growing food to feed themselves. Save ancient varieties of seeds = adaption capacity Skyscrapers reflect the human condition in our time - they don't touch - isolated. Technology isolates. Future visions: we'll take ships across Atlantic, keep working on the internet on the ship The more you can empower others the more you can empower yourself Don't keep digging up weeds, plant better trees...
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