tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170094782024-02-19T09:10:50.534-06:00TechneBlogTechne: craft, herein often poorly implemented with a great huzzah.Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.comBlogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-68519463273950673472012-11-16T13:34:00.001-06:002012-11-16T13:34:48.550-06:00Four Themes in New Education and Ivan Illich Was Right<br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">Universal education through schooling is not feasible.</b><span style="background-color: white;"> It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on the style of present schools. Neither new attitudes of teachers toward their pupils nor the proliferation of educational hardware or software (in classroom or bedroom), nor finally the attempt to expand the pedagogue's responsibility until it engulfs his pupils' lifetimes will deliver universal education. </span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>The current search for new educational</b></span></span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">funnels</i><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">webs</i></b><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. We hope to contribute concepts needed by those who conduct such counterfoil research on education--and also to those who seek alternatives to other established service industries.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1em;">—Ivan Illich, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Illich#Deschooling_Society">Deschooling Society</a>, 1971</span></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.nea.com/AboutNEA/Default.aspx">NEA </a>- a venture capital firm (New Enterprise Associates and not the National Education Association) just released a short analysis of key trends in education written by Joe Sakoda, a partner of the firm.<br />
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US K-12 students consistently lag behind their peers internationally. There is a debt of $1 trillion carried by higher ed graduates in the US. Networks and falling delivery costs for devices (pads and tablets) coupled with rising expectations for education worldwide have shifted the market for education.<br />
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The NEA paper suggests a significant market opportunity and new (or emphasized) mandates for brick and mortar institutions. Four key trends identified are:<br />
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<li><b>Disappearing classroom walls</b> via networked and mobile media move education delivery from a broadcast to an interactive model.</li>
<li><b>Democratizing Educational Content </b>high quality educational elements from organizations like Khan Academy <a href="http://www.khanacademy.org/">http://www.khanacademy.org/</a> and others.</li>
<li><b>Learning from Big Data Analytics </b>gives schools an ability to see "what's really going on" using the tools of Internet commerce. "<span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">Using platforms such as </span><a href="http://www.desire2learn.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #184664; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Desire2Learn</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">, administrators can aggregate learning analytics at the school district, state, or even national level, enabling best practices and insights to be shared among stakeholders. The State of Tennessee recently demonstrated the power of Desire2Learn’s statewide predictive analytics,<b><i> lowering their annual dropout rate by 25% across 45 university campuses</i></b> by looking at historical student data and identifying opportunities for faculty and administrators to intervene. "</span></li>
<li><b>Transforming Local Campuses to Global Institutions "</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">Chinese citizens spend 3.5 times more of their disposable income on education than Americans on a percentage basis. The U.S., particularly in higher education, is home to the most respected learning institutions on the planet, and the emerging markets have seemingly insatiable demand to access it. More than one million students have registered for free for online classes through </span><a href="http://www.coursera.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #184664; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Coursera</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">, which partners with more than 30 leading institutions like Stanford, Penn, and Michigan." The vast majority of these students are from outside the US.</span></li>
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Worth consideration. Read the full article: <a href="http://www.nea.com/blog/?p=352" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">A Crisis in Education is a Terrible Thing to Waste</a><br />
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Note: Ivan Illich developed very similar principles back in the 1960s and 70s. Mike Glodo (the writer here) had this take back in 2007, <a href="http://techneblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/thank-you-ivan-illych.html">Thank You Ivan Illich</a> , and an earlier piece <a href="http://techneblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/convivial-systems-broadband-ivan.html">Convivial Systems: Broadband, Ivan Illich, and Architecture</a> from 2005. In my opinion, if you are not aware of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Illich">Ivan Illich</a>'s work, especially <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Illich#Deschooling_Society">Deschooling Society </a> you're not hip education-wise.<br />
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</ol>Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-32812870386157469242011-07-20T12:04:00.000-05:002011-07-20T12:04:12.129-05:00Selected Economic Gardening LinksJust a quick scan of Economic Gardening. The city of Litteton, CO, still comes up at the top of the search.<br />
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<li class="g w0 knavi" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="vsc" sig="Cc9" style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 546px;"><div class="vspi" style="bottom: -5px; left: -8px; position: absolute; right: -8px; top: -5px; z-index: -1;"></div><span class="tl" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="display: inline; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="l" href="http://www.cevforbusiness.com/Economic-Gardening/FAQs/37.aspx" style="color: #2200c1; cursor: pointer;">Center for Economic Vitality: <em style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Economic Gardening</em> in Washington state</a></h3><button class="esw eswd" g:entity="http://www.cevforbusiness.com/Economic-Gardening/FAQs/37.aspx" g:pingback="/gen_204?atyp=i&ct=plusone&cad=S3" g:type="plusone" g:undo="poS3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.google.com/images/experiments/nav_logo78.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px -243px; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 15px; margin-left: 5px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; vertical-align: 0px; width: 24px;" title="Recommend this page"></button><button class="vspib" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.google.com/images/experiments/nav_logo78.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -19px -213px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 13px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 3px; padding-right: 0px; vertical-align: 0px; width: 13px;"></button></span><div class="s" style="max-width: 42em;"><div class="f kv" style="color: #9c9c9c; display: block; margin-bottom: 2px;"><cite style="color: #0e774a; font-style: normal;">www.cevforbusiness.com/<b>Economic</b>-<b>Gardening</b>/FAQs/37.aspx</cite><span class="gl" style="white-space: nowrap;"> - <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ezgoXQh_Cd0J:www.cevforbusiness.com/Economic-Gardening/FAQs/37.aspx+economic+gardening+statistics&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Cached</a></span></div><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.24;">FAQs about <em style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">economic gardening</em> at the Center for Economic Vitality. <b>...</b> the counseling and assistance you provide with secondary market research and <em style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">data</em>. <b>...</b></span></div></div></li>
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Background interview with the creator, Mike Dougherty at <a href="http://scifimafia.com/2010/01/exclusive-interview-with-the-creator-of-browncoats-redemption/">http://scifimafia.com/2010/01/exclusive-interview-with-the-creator-of-browncoats-redemption/</a><br />
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What's cool about this is that they cleared everything up with Joss Whedon and Universal to get their blessings prior to going *too* far ahead with this. Very clean approach for doing social good through art. And thank you Mr. Whedon and Universal for seeing the good of this.<br />
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More background at <a href="http://browncoatsmovie.com/">http://browncoatsmovie.com/</a>Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-67180861205223891852011-01-24T09:39:00.000-06:002011-01-24T09:39:47.003-06:00Steep Canyon Rangers Free Track from "Rare Bird Alert"I love the Steep Canyon Rangers. Got a piece of email from them with a free download from their new album "Rare Bird Alert" with Steve Martin.<br />
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Wrong Rare Bird Alert? Try <a href="http://www.birder.com/birding/alert/">http://www.birder.com/birding/alert/</a>Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-28697324935338599482010-09-23T17:47:00.000-05:002010-09-23T17:47:05.174-05:00Blockhead and Eggbuster - Small Ubiquitous Gizmos and Content<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/VictorTalkingLogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/VictorTalkingLogo.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>It all gets small and ubiquitous.<br />
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1960 console stereo 1970-1990 Component system big knobs 1990s Smaller Bookshelf speakers and so on. Then an iPod.<br />
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IBM PC, Compaq Luggable, Laptops, Netbooks, iPads<br />
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<b>Deconstruction of publishing. It's a </b><a href="http://www.lulu.com/"><b>LuLu</b></a><br />
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Writing, editing, publishing, and delivery of physical or electronic product already happen across a network of individuals and organizations. With publishing on demand or with electronic delivery, writers get closer to readers and disintermediation takes out the monolith. Editors won't "go away".<br />
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They'll form a needed guild.<br />
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Writers, for that matter, could peer review other writers to drive up the quality. Readers can themselves have a sample of writing and with software like Netflix, the electronic "book" can have recommendations ("You might also like...") based upon your tastes and the tastes of other readers.The iPad and Kindle represent "first pancakes" that are tasty, prove the market and will be improved by the market by Apple, Amazon, and others. Even in these early days, Amazon sold the heck out of Kindles and ebooks this season. Wait till somebody goes Gillette on the "readers", or when the thin screens drop to < $100.<br />
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Publishing stalled on console stereo. <br />
Remember Egghead Software Stores? On demand publishing quality keeps getting better, and in five years we'll remember the good old days of that enormous iPad or Kindle and have a few thin "electronic sheets" laying around the house. Xerox PARC looked at "pads" back in the late 80s. <a href="http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/SciAmDraft3.html">Mark Weiser, Scientific American, covered this in 1991.</a> Maybe RedBox adds a printer to their kiosks if you want hard copy.<br />
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With the Internet, the inventory can be infinite and benefit from the <a href="http://www.longtail.com/">Long Tail </a>effect. A big publisher will veer away from "Morris Dancing: A Life" but there are enough Morris Dancers to support that kind of niche, and the "book" inventory costs next to nothing. Those shoes though...<br />
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<a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Joe+Shuren+DRM">Excellent ePub observations from Joe Shuren on DRM etc.</a> and various impediments to Next Big Things.Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-25317859267213759242010-08-05T18:05:00.000-05:002010-08-05T18:05:11.804-05:00Quick note on "80 Essential Blogs for the Modern-Day Marketing Student | Online Colleges"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZIcj2-pcSA_Pxr8DSiojpIB63GQMTVNCKmBlgkEEnqk_vdqa2TIpDUwpzQ4_OcB_RG2ZCpfzAx7r62QXlQqzJU8fgp1CE4WTT4-DOP2g8oiqCu-2CCAbSOZoskcURBd6C6ZVZKw/s1600/20091229+Christabel,+Dumplin,+and+Long+Suffering+Red+16.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZIcj2-pcSA_Pxr8DSiojpIB63GQMTVNCKmBlgkEEnqk_vdqa2TIpDUwpzQ4_OcB_RG2ZCpfzAx7r62QXlQqzJU8fgp1CE4WTT4-DOP2g8oiqCu-2CCAbSOZoskcURBd6C6ZVZKw/s320/20091229+Christabel,+Dumplin,+and+Long+Suffering+Red+16.PNG" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b6320; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2010/03/28/80-essential-blogs-for-the-modern-day-marketing-students/" style="color: #4d7307; font-weight: bold;">80 Essential Blogs for the Modern-Day Marketing Student | Online Colleges</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b6320; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b6320; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Above is an example of asocial media. Christabel chewing on Dumplin on top of Good Dog Red.</span>Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-42811081062992663862010-06-16T11:35:00.002-05:002010-06-16T14:04:06.603-05:00A return to the land, and fresh food, in the backyards of the Delta | Grist<a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2010-06-15-in-the-back-yards-of-the-delta">A return to the land, and fresh food, in the backyards of the Delta | Grist</a><br />
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</div><div>Great simple framework, mostly low tech and high impact.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Meanwhile, in North Carolina, Cabarrus County forms up a Food Council <a href="http://www.cabarruscounty.us/News/2010/May/May28_FoodCouncil.html">http://www.cabarruscounty.us/News/2010/May/May28_FoodCouncil.html</a></div><div><br />
</div><div>Lots of good models showing up with solid effect. Let's get through the secondary research before we all go grant crazy for primary research. Google, not grants!<br />
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Another addition: <a href="http://www.ethicurean.com/2010/06/10/usda-looks-at-local/">http://www.ethicurean.com/2010/06/10/usda-looks-at-local/</a> For USDA discussion of "what is local food"<br />
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Shout out to <a href="http://www.localdirt.com/">http://www.localdirt.com/</a> for excellent newsflow @localdirt</div>Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-82297459571665479892010-06-08T15:16:00.001-05:002010-06-08T15:17:29.576-05:00Via Local Dirt: Rooftop gardens from around the world - Garden Plants and Gardening Forum - The Grow Spot<a href="http://www.thegrowspot.com/know/f5/rooftop-gardens-from-around-the-world-54020.html">Rooftop gardens from around the world - Garden Plants and Gardening Forum - The Grow Spot</a><br />
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</div><div>Beautiful photos and many examples - via <a href="http://www.localdirt.com/">http://www.localdirt.com/</a></div>Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-36565409396296639962010-05-10T12:29:00.001-05:002010-05-10T12:30:32.191-05:00Reporting from Sankalp 2010 | Blog | NextBillion.net | Development through Enterprise<a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blog/2010/05/10/reporting-from-sankalp-2010">Reporting from Sankalp 2010 | Blog | NextBillion.net | Development through Enterprise</a>: "In sum, panelists concluded that the role of government is to create an enabling legal, regulatory, and policy environments, which include the removal of market distortions stemming from preferential government policies or excessive regulations."Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-22507723918503206052010-04-30T11:33:00.001-05:002010-04-30T11:41:02.776-05:00Beyond PowerPoint: PreziImagine my amusement when I see my old company "PA Consulting" at the bottom of the amazingly complicated slide.<br />
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<a href='http://kck.st/biFbpV'><img border='0' src='http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mbenitez/osloom-an-open-source-jacquard-loom-diy-electrom/widget/card.jpg' /></a>Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-50704006058469947922010-04-30T10:16:00.000-05:002010-04-30T10:16:12.744-05:00Cellphone Payments Offer Alternative to Cash - NYTimes.com<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/technology/29cashless.html">Cellphone Payments Offer Alternative to Cash - NYTimes.com</a><div><br /></div><div>Good overview of mobile payment systems; would be great for Farmers Markets. I believe, though, that the Federal "food stamp" program requires a hard wired terminal or a token system.</div>Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-26441170469303395062010-04-19T14:07:00.000-05:002010-04-19T14:07:47.938-05:00My friend Tommy Sowers on the Road in Missouri<a href="http://twitpic.com/1gv930" title="Me: how often do you check the weather ( as I watch a farmer ... on Twitpic"><img src="http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/1gv930.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="Me: how often do you check the weather ( as I watch a farmer ... on Twitpic"></a>Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-84638521942683783202010-04-05T20:56:00.000-05:002010-04-05T20:56:17.884-05:00cias.wisc.edu on Distribution Models of Local Food and MapsOnce again, Wisconsin's Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems rocks! I can't believe I missed this the first time around.<br />
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Lovely open source map of food distribution systems, and model descriptions. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">And supporting reports at </span><br />
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Additional reports at "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">CIAS and the UW-Extension Ag Innovation Center have written a report featuring case studies of some of these distribution models: “<a href="http://www.cias.wisc.edu/farm-to-fork/scaling-up-meeting-the-demand-for-local-food/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #255fab; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Scaling Up: Meeting the Demand for Local Food</a>.”</span>Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-692016901089555502010-04-05T18:11:00.003-05:002010-04-05T21:04:42.200-05:00On Job Creation—Local Fruits and Vegetables vs. Corn and Soybeans | CommonDreams.org<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT5Y8PG8z1aJVHEq2duuP5MFN4YmA6zZe3D0maezIfgiklBIM4CDIAgZMY1nLCGt3IzaePzdMa96h_-uVPqS-imK_6xML-TncJxsFdLKWTvq6hlJFy_b5nVlsu2jKa1TVNWfMGiw/s1600/Small+Jonathan+and+Staymans+mikeglodo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT5Y8PG8z1aJVHEq2duuP5MFN4YmA6zZe3D0maezIfgiklBIM4CDIAgZMY1nLCGt3IzaePzdMa96h_-uVPqS-imK_6xML-TncJxsFdLKWTvq6hlJFy_b5nVlsu2jKa1TVNWfMGiw/s320/Small+Jonathan+and+Staymans+mikeglodo.jpg" /></a></div><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/04/04-1">On Job Creation—Local Fruits and Vegetables vs. Corn and Soybeans | CommonDreams.org</a><br />
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Informative writing on regional economics (upper midwest) and the driving potential of local production.<br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Some key findings on the economic impacts on the region as a whole:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><ul><li>Increased fruit and vegetable production in the six states could mean $882 million in sales at the farm level, and more than 9,300 jobs. Corn and soybean production on that same acreage would support only 2,578 jobs.</li>
<li>If half of the increased production was sold in farmer-owned stores, it would require 1,405 such stores staffed by 9,652 people.</li>
</ul></span></blockquote>The full study<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> <a class="external" href="http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/research/marketing_files/midwest.html" style="color: #005588; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">new study</a> by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">This is consistent with findings in numerous local food studies: economic, profitable, sustainable, and not requiring extensive subsidy beyond instantiation of infrastructures (say, processing facilities). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">See also <a href="http://www.cias.wisc.edu/crops-and-livestock/report-helps-fresh-market-vegetable-growers-understand-and-share-finances/">Grower To Grower</a> from cais.wisc.edu for some of the dynamics of smaller scale farms. Big bucks from small acres. University of Illinois Extension circa 2002 found a lot of "takers" for small scale farming; some of it purpose-driven, funding college, a new boat, or to pay down a mortgage, etc. I don't have a link at hand for that one.</span><br />
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Color Telephones! Better than deploying rural broadband... Awesome!<br />
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Found this while doing real research. Likely more invested here by incumbent telcos than on real rural infrastructure.Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-10561652638488878662010-04-04T22:19:00.001-05:002010-04-04T22:24:11.185-05:00The Brass Figlagee: Gene Shepherd on iTunes<a href="http://shepcast.blogspot.com/">The Brass Figlagee</a><br />
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Wonderful set of his work. Woot @BrassFigalageeMike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-18429615698611682092010-04-02T14:20:00.001-05:002010-04-02T14:21:55.347-05:00Official Google Blog: Model Your Town Competition: Cast your vote!<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/model-your-town-competition-cast-your.html">Official Google Blog: Model Your Town Competition: Cast your vote!</a><br />
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Tools for thought. More mashup potential.Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-4937114322501393152010-04-02T12:05:00.002-05:002010-04-05T13:56:04.863-05:00"Local and Regional Foods in Community and Economic Development" from Cornell et.al.Well crafted presentation. Concise tutorial.<br />
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<div id="__ss_735846" style="width: 425px;"><strong style="display: block; margin: 12px 0 4px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/efmorrison/cornell-presentation-presentation-735846" title="Cornell Presentation">Cornell Presentation</a></strong><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=cornell-presentation-1226251898472548-8&stripped_title=cornell-presentation-presentation-735846" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=cornell-presentation-1226251898472548-8&stripped_title=cornell-presentation-presentation-735846" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br />
<div style="padding: 5px 0 12px;">View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/efmorrison">Ed Morrison</a>.</div></div><br />
Kudos to the authors, Rod Howe, Katherine Lang, Bernadette Logozar, Heidi Mouillesseaux-Kunzman, and Duncan Hilchey<br />
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My friend Dayna Conner at <a href="http://eatsouthernillinois.org/">Food Works</a> here in deep Southern Illinois pointed me to an upcoming webinar on Local and Regional Food Systems by <a href="http://nercrd.psu.edu/">Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development (NERCRD) </a>that led me to that presentation. Her organization's blog is <a href="http://eatsouthernillinois.blogspot.com/">here</a>.Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-35473646091928562402010-04-01T11:27:00.001-05:002010-04-01T11:28:32.107-05:00Discussion and Reception w/ Paul Polak on Poverty | NYU Stern School of Business<a href="https://nyustern-sea.campusgroups.com/rsvp.aspx?event_uid=fa71ed94-8897-102d-a976-0030485d8fda">A Discussion and Reception w/ Paul Polak on Poverty | NYU Stern School of Business</a><br />
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Thoughtful, pragmatic, effective views on successful design for the world. Market driven = sustainable.<br />
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<div>More about Paul Polak's work at <a href="http://www.paulpolak.com/">http://www.paulpolak.com/</a></div>Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-17057924687686245192010-03-31T19:05:00.000-05:002010-03-31T19:05:41.509-05:00The NYT highlights a key food-system gap: infrastucture | Grist<a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2010-03-29-agriculture-infrastructure-market-failure/">The NYT highlights a key food-system gap: infrastucture | Grist</a><div><br /></div><div>Here in Southern Illinois, this is a biggie. Good writing.</div><div><br /></div><div>One problem here - we need milli, not mega. Fish processing facility way overbuilt, resultant low utilization.</div><div><br /></div><div>Guy Kawasaki writes about "good problems" = high demand for customer service because you sold more than expected.</div><div><br /></div><div>Compare to "bad problems" = low utilization in early market.</div><div><br /></div><div>Kudos @grist</div>Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17009478.post-470647695745261572010-03-31T13:38:00.000-05:002010-03-31T13:38:36.170-05:00Small Scale Fresh Food Prototyping With Rusty Bookcase + Ladybug<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Good Bugs and Good Eats<br />
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But fresh, even small scale, makes the winter days brighter.<br />
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Got started late this year and have only anemic prototypes of growing tomatoes, but have achieved proof of principle.<br />
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So the bookshelf's not really a bona fide prototype, but I bought a bunch of end of season seed geraniums for a dime on the dollar which faded, then came back and made me smile throughout the winter.<br />
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Urban food, local food, good eats. We'll get there.<br />
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More urban farming at Will Allen's <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: green; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">www.<b>growingpower</b>.org/</span>Mike Glodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050537518537717342noreply@blogger.com0