How to Solve Global Warming

March 17, 2008

litter

If we could teach kids to keep their schools free of litter we would solve global warming in a generation.

Global warming seems to be such an insolvable problem but getting a group of children to keep their school free of litter seems to be, albeit not easy, at least possible if we paid it enough attention.

But in fact a solution to litter in schools would need to involve all members of the community, it would need activists and belief, compassion and non aggression, making of rules and policing them sensitively, collaboration at a local, national and international level. All these characteristics are essential components of a solution to global warming.

Try solving the simple problems first. By empowering our communities to do something possible, we might just be able to tackle something that at the moment seems impossible.

image: creative commons licence – http://flickr.com/photos/mbrownstone/2043006071/


Disaster Relief in a Box

January 21, 2005

A blueprint for a deployable disaster relief system using standard shipping containers.”Michael Donaldson’s thesis describes how field hospitals, workshops, shelters, schools, barracks, security units and even offices can be packed into the standardized containers. As he says, �I was looking at something that can help with the re-building of social infrastructure such as hospitals and schools after war or disaster…There needs to be something that takes over after disaster response teams such as the UN or military leave � which is typically about 30 days.�

I love these modular ideas. Makes us feel that we can build like in Lego. Prefabricated houses: cheap, quick easy to move. However a metal container is hot in summer and cold in winter – the reality might be very unpleasant.

See Blog on Container Architecture
My Source Disaster Relief in a Box from WorldChanging.com


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