missing 100 million jobs curriculum - the 20 most nutritious foods your community could be eating

I have a hypothesis that if every community taught its children this local curriculum truly we would create many more jobs and nutritious foods would be as cheap to buy as non-nutritious ones - at least on a seasonal basis. This challenge starts in the so-called developed world where obesity is rife, but it makes you wonder if we have developed the wrong lnowledge 

This hypothesis comes from observing these such as these :

many of the fruits and vegs I grew up in surrey England with as a child are now supplied with in "dirty" versions that have next to no nutritional value  a synonym for dirty maybe what some us supermarkets call conventional instead of organic

The Dirty Dozen list, however, is made up of fruit and veg that are often laden with pesticides and other chemicals. These are apples, capsicum, blueberries, celery, grapes, cucumber, lettuce, nectarines, peaches, potatoes, strawberries and spinach.

When you look at the logistics of distributing fruit and vegetable around usa supermarkets it seems that we are now told organic is more costly because supermarkets over time  (and all the big players in the food chain) havent liked to the bother with dealing with local farmers and seasons

So we've ended local food security and nutritious foods and got pesticides, global food chains that destroy sustainability of more and more local communities.

I wonder just how many ,more jobs would be enjoyed worldwide if we minimised pesticide use and maximised local food distribution. I would be happy to be told there is a balance but haven't we the peoples completely lost out on trying to market every local nutritious source first

In states around usa, Muhammad Yunus has challenged public universities to spend one day a year to listen to their students solutions for the future. The number 1 topic area stiudents choose to pitch on is Food security, organic produce, market gardens as a practice couree at school,....

some benchmark cases that have been launched as solution

food vans (and community celebrations) to solve urban food deserts

SOU_Southern_Oregon_Aquaponics.pdf,

some ideas still being discussed

 Rebranding a struggling rural community’s downtown area to improve economic performance;

NC10 NCCU TRADES.docx,  changing academics of food science youth

 Using aquaponics to turn fish waste into plant food, or recycling hog waste;

NCSSM Camp Aubergine.docx

OR16 WOU-Plantin theSeed.pdf, help schools with vegetable gardening curricula/apprentices - food security

=NC12 fsu1.doc, FSU Fresh Starts green market integrating ex-offenders

UNCW Urban Harvest Plan for Social Business Competition.docx,

UNCA-Social Business--Kloeppel.pdf, mountain harvest produce truck

OR6 PSU-Compass Rose.pdf PSU-Compass Rose.pdf, 309 KB community cafe professionally run

Better Future Alliance

Stuart Arnett (Concord, NH)
Hunter Ulf

Foody

Nathaniel Brown (Mechanical Engineering, Lyme, NH)
David Desaulniers

The Better Future Alliance (BFA) is an L3C created by several subject-matter experts in sustainable community design and economic development. By utilizing the tools that BFA has developed, needy communities can turn liabilities into assets, provide their existing citizenry with new, sustainable opportunities, retain and enhance their cultural sites, and realize their Better Future.

Foody is a social enterprise that bolsters local food markets by providing small-scale farmers with access to web-based sales, marketing tools, account services, and delivery logistics. The web-based business model of Foody will decrease transaction costs in local food markets which in turn creates greater sales for farmers and lower costs for consumers.

 EOU_CommunityGarden.pdf, combat child obesity (food desert) with demo community farm

related story - the celebrity chef jamie oliver took on los angeles government in charge of school lunches- the disgraceful politics of contracting mass  junk food suppliers rather than local fresh food services should make every parnet wonder what the heck local government's purpose really is

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survey 1of child centric education

My dream: everyone experiences Harrison Owen OpenSpace After%20the%20Rage.pdf

IF SCHOOLS were child centric they would make age relevant interventions:

if anyone is illiterate at age 6 it only takes 90 days to change that - best of all a literate kid can be main helper in 20 minute session - see sunita gandhi

finacial literacy would be practicsed from age 8 - see aflatoun ( works in 100 countries

from age 10 pre-teens would have access to pfysical and mental health studies designed peer to peer -see Lancet

no kid would leave primary school without knowing how open space meetings/teamwork is facilitated

teachers would be celebrated for clarifying which skills involve experiential learning not classroom examination - while there is some recognition that music and sports involve practice, its shocking that coding isnt valued this way ..

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Do you have life-changing moment to share? - what was it and what did you think or do differently after it?

example until 9/11, i assumed that (good) futures are happening somewhere in the world and would be searched out so that all could communally replicate them;  === 9/11 caused me to question whether global connectivity will give us time to find sustainable solutions for our kids- i became particulaly interested in places where good education leaps appeared but did not get app'd the world over - one example actually goes back to my favorite 1990s advances in schools that a small cliuster of new zealand schools pioneered - download it here https://oiipdf.com/download/the-learning-revolution

i welcome discussion of this book's parts at any time rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you have a solution every community that develops youth could be cooperational

in 1984our book with economist editors 2025report made the case for 40 year commitment to every child identifying own skils dashboard and maximising AI curation of this- we valued this as sustainability critical worldwide cooperation - we see no logic for changing this concern

== we live in an age where most up to half of knowhow of techforgood changes every 3 years - we needed mindsets for exploration not for being standard examined; a nation that makes its college students its largest debt class is likely to collapse economically socially environmentally if web3 is designed for celebrating sustainability cooperation; and if web3 is not designed for neough yout to linkin the first sustainability generation then we are all heading the way of the dodo

I am learn to learn

chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk  

TECH - What is IT? and which exponential multipliers most impact human and natural futures?

AI   >. silicon chip singularity (ie when one chip > one brain in pure analytical capacity) - science fictiion no moore

who programs the ai - the race to include lost voices eg girls- the world of statistics re=-examined like never before (eg previously mass statistics very weak at coding meaining from numbers)

Biotech  >> Affective science (loveq and emotional intelligence remains human's unique edge over artificials for at least 10 more years!)

Some people say that Virtual or Augmented Reality has advanced at its best so far in last 12 months that there are hardly any qualified teachers only pioneering explorers- does this matter - well its VR which is your gateway to web3 - intead of just a mobile device you will like wear  a visual sensor system; equally others argue that you shouldnt worry about how fast you put googles on - what you should want is to take back ownbership of what you spend time creating virually- look at the small print of the big platforms you probably dont own anything without them..maybe this is a generation issue bu interstingly the met-generation can now work on chnaging anything that old systems are destroying (eg climate) ...t 

 IOT which things will now have brains and be as mobile connected as you are

Crypto - can communities celebrate financiang their own most urgent sustainability cooperations? if they dont who wil?

Cyber >> Drone - opportunities and threats of public spaces- first in spaces like the arctic circle if we dont use drones we will get no warning before the big meltdown

-the mkist memorable western campus event i attended in 2010s was tufts colllaboratory summit convened mainly by arctic circle youth under 25; 

one of the main debates how to help teachers in arctic circle schools empower their students to use virtual reality to visit other arctic circles schools communities; many of the changes and solutions are analogous; I am reminded by educators leading the compilation of virtual realty libraries of the DICE acronym - a reen might want to do something dangerous like climb everest, why not VR simulate that? there are impossible things a trainee doctor will never be able to travel inside a humans gut but that can be VR'd; there are catastropghic simulations - you would rid the world of bees just to test if donald is wrong about nature being more powerful than he is, you can simulate it; or the future of smart tourism may be curation of what a community is proudest of being visited for - this way ecotourism, cultural appreciation exchanges can be twinned to maximise celebration of each other- and by the way friends of the tourist can join in virtually- of corse this raises a metaverse question - that Hong Kong is leading the world on

being 100% public - good and bad hacs- note context matters - context 1 smart city context 2 isolated vilalge no moore context 3 make a huge land safe at borders

3D printing aka additive engineering

Big Data Small by market tech sector Leapfrogging

Nano cf einstein - to innovate science model more micro

Blockchain

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