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Rising food prices are galvanizing Jakarta's urban farming movement.

By Sara Schonhardt, Correspondent / April 22, 2011

Jakarta, Indonesia

• A local, slice-of-life story from a Monitor correspondent.

Jakarta’s urban gardening scene got started with a simple tweet: “Who wants to start urban farming?” After that first Twitter message in November 2010, the group known as Jakarta Berkebun secured a plot in the city’s north and harvested a crop of morning glories (a common ingredient in many dishes here).

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Jakarta lacks green space, but unused land abounds. Jakarta Berkebun aims to transform empty lots that often fill with rubbish into training grounds for urban youths to learn about growing food. For Milly Ratudian, an architect who leads the group, urban farming is a a response to skyrocketing food prices despite the nation’s abundant fertile crop land.

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2011/04/26

Graphic: Global Warming Perceptions

Citizen-Centered, Earth Orientation, Threats, True Cost

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2011/04/26

Worth a Look: The Azimuth Project

Worth A Look

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Welcome to the Azimuth Project!

The Azimuth Project is an international collaboration to create a focal point for scientists and engineers interested in saving the planet. Our goal is to make clearly presented, accurate information on the relevant issues easy to find, and to help people work together on our common problems.

Saving the planet

“Saving the planet” may sound pompous. But the very health of the planet is in peril because of the actions of humankind. Whether it is global warming, mass extinction, peak oil, or other problems, we need to be prepared on many fronts for an uncertain future.

Our goal is not to replace or compete with existing sources of information, but to provide a bird’s-eye view of the information that already exists. We want to make it easy for any scientist or engineer to understand the whole problem and understand specialist literature in many subjects outside their particular domain of expertise.

Tip of the Hat to Curtis Faith for the lead, and to project founder John Baez.

2011/04/26

Graphic: Next Net MindMap (Evolving)

Citizen-Centered, ICT-IT, Innovation, Political

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Who’s Who in Earth Intelligence: Curtis Faith

Alpha E-H, Earth Intelligence

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Over the last few years I’ve become interested in physics through a circuitous route. First, like John Baez who started the Azimuth Project, I realized four or five years back that we’re headed to an ugly place on the climate and energy front if we don’t make some changes.

So I wanted to do something. It seemed obvious to me that energy was the real problem. Electric cars are nice but only go so far if we still rely on coal to generate the electricity. I am interested in alternative types of fusion power (like I.E.C. fusion) and the associated problems in theoretical physics, especially nuclear binding energy theory. I am also interested in quantum gravity theory. I hope to contribute in some concrete way in the future. As I continue to learn enough to eventually become expert in physics, I want to work on some more tangible tasks that can help make the world a better place.

Structured Hits

See Also:

The Azimuth Project

John Baez Blaster with Graphics

Curtis Faith Books at Amazon

Review: The Complete TurtleTrader–The Legend, the Lessons, the Results

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Graphic: Concept for Liberation Communications

Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, Citizen-Centered, Earth Orientation, ICT-IT, Innovation, Languages-Translation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Policies-Harmonization, Political, Processing, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Threats, Tribes, True Cost

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Phi Beta Iota: An interested group of funders who approached Earth Intelligence Network asked the obvious question: why isn't the US Government doing this? Where is public diplomacy, covert action, soft war, and so on? Our answer was straight forward: the US Government does not want to liberate peoples, it chooses instead to spend borrowed trillions on elective unconstitutional wars that burn up the military machine so it has to be bought again. If Hillary Clinton wanted to have a legacy, she would demand the pre-approved IOC funding of $125M for the Open Source Agency, and begin implementing the open source tri-fecta long under development by over the past twenty years by thousands of professionals committed to intelligence with integrity.

THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest,

Multinationally-Oriented Open Source Agency (OSA) as found on pages 23 and 423 of the 9-11 Commission Report (but with integrity, which is to say, not part of the CIA but rather as a sister agency to the BBG under diplomatic auspices), instead the US Government has elected to wage multi-trillion dollar elective wars using borrowed money and completely lacking in Constitutional authorization.

Autonomous Internet [Open, Free, Distributed]

M4IS2

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An API for Sharing & MindMap for Next Net

Advanced Cyber/IO, Citizen-Centered, ICT-IT, Innovation

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here's a use case for interoperability ;)

Three years ago, when our team at Kassi began sketching our idea of an online service for sharing goods and skills, we were not aware that others were doing the same thing. Since then, we have found that the idea is definitely not new. This catalogue alone lists more than a hundred services that allow people to lend, borrow, swap and recycle goods, and it probably includes only a fraction of them all.