It troubles me greatly to think that as you I discuss how over a billion people are hungry and have need for clean drinkable water, there will likely be another child fall because of these basic nutrition problems.
Our modern world support billions of people and capacity grows by the day. And there are two facts staring us in the face:
- The world is covers mostly in water so we aren’t running out
- Our output in total calories of nutrition far exceeds the needs of 7 billion people.
Sometimes, it seems the best thing to do is to prosper, make a donation and hope you picked one that won’t squander most of the money. Frankly, when asked where someone should send a check to support clean drinking water, I’m never sure what to say.
This isn’t a funding problem.
Friday night, I’ve invited James Talmage Stevens, the best selling author in the preparedness industry on my Profitable Social Media radio show to talk about his education campaign to help families be prepared for any situation. His book Making the Best of Basics, has sold 770,000 copies and is now out in a new edition.
However, I know we’ll spend a lot of time on a passion we share, getting clean drinkable water for the billion plus people suffering right now. Listen to my show here
Looking For Better Explanations.. Better Ideas About Food
I spend an hour each evening reading and searching for new ideas like the one shown here. The following, Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish was one I just about passed on. I never eat fish! But OH, how glad I am that I watch this.
These Ideas Will Help You In Your Marketing
When I’m stuck on a problem, looking for a creative solution for my clients or wondering how I’ll work out a situation that seems insurmountable, I often think back to folks like Dan Barber.
If you’re like me, you’ll have a notepad out and several action items before you finish watching this short video.
I hope you will share your ideas with us.
Hello Warren – Between Dr. Prepper and Dan Barber in one sitting it may be sunrise before my right-brain slows down to get some sleep.
You have no idea how on target you are with your heading (these ideas …) – now I want to see/hear all 50 speackers from TED -should keep me supplied with blog material for months to come –
The TED talks have inspired many of best blog posts and remind me to think big to answer the world's problems
I also love TED but rarely go to their web site because I'm afraid I'll spend weeks there and not come up for air. I wait until someone (like you, like now) presents me with a nugget. I don't often agree with the TED folk, but I am usually not disappointed. Regarding this particular video, it give me much hope. My writing partner just watched the documentary Food Inc. and has been regaling me with tales of the sins of agribusiness until I was ready to despair, so thank you.
I do not see, yet, how to use the ideas in the video in my own creating, but I'm sure it will at least inform what I do.
Thanks. Oh, and I”m sending my writing partner a link to this post so he can see “the other side” also.
I am learning to reframe things and not assume what we know as the only way to look at things.. I use this in coaching daily
So, we love that Dan Barber talk here at Foodtree. We're excited to be a part of a growing trend towards really useful ways to approach our broken food system. Jamie Oliver, Michael Pollen; two other voices advocating change in ways that aren't rooted in top level ideas or mandates…rather rooted in simple ways to think about a much bigger problem, and tools to tweak our own behavior every day to create 'network affects' in the current system that will result in a healthier relationship with food.
I guess to comment on our mission at Foodtree, we want to build a platform on which farmers and food producers of all kinds can tell their story, much like Dan told Miguel's. The food label isn't enough room to tell eaters who you are, and why you do things the way you do. Eaters don't have a reliable source of useful, relevant information on the food they see in their community. Technology has the promise to change this, and we're hoping to be a part of that.
Cheers!
Derek
@dshanahan
@foodtree