Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Print Lottery tickets on edible, vitamin and mineral enhanced paper.
Millions of lottery tickets are sold every day. Instead of them all being added to the already intolerably high volume of solid waste, they should instead become the minimum basic dietary supplement to the people on the street who buy them hoping for a miracle and ending up instead with a piece of waste-paper.
Humans with brains essentiantially the same as ours haved lived on the Earth for maybe 125,000 years... are we really supposed to believe that the Human Being of 50,000 years ago was as stupid as the characiture of the savage cave-man image?
What really happened in all that time? What is the implication of the fact that people seem to have lived well without wars, writing, technology as we know it and even any record-keeping that we today can recognize?
Why do we assume that these people—who after all were as intelligent as you and I—were more “primitive” than ourselves? What if we shifted that assumption and began to look for evidence that would show us what actually happened instead of imposing chauvanistic misapprehensions on these people? What if our ansestors were actually smarter than us?
Centers for Community Laundry, Education and Eco-Industry.
The Idea is to integrate the activities of making a living, doing laundry, taking care of and educating children and living in harmony with the environment.
How about this:
a.) There are many plants that can be used to make soap. These plants can also be used to make other things, and can be grown in several different climates and eco-systems. See: Soap Making Link
The first step is to develop “plantations” where these palnts are cultivated, employing folks to grow, process and package the soap and other products derived from the plants.
b.) The second step is to open a Laundromat on the same property or nearby. This Laundromat of course uses only locally grown soap. The Laundromat is also an Educational Center for Young Children, which takes advantage of its proximity to the Soap Plant to involve the children of those doing laundry in short (1 or 2 hour) educational programs based on the work going on at the plantation.
The world could benefit from workshops with Tools, Staff and Energy available to the Public. How many great ideas are lost because some brilliant person has no resources to develop an idea into an actual thing?
The process of creativity and developing inventions is heavily dependent on access to tools and materials. How many brilliant inventors have access to these requirements? It would seem that at present, one must become part of a commercial operation such as General Electric, Xerox or others in order to become an inventor.
Why not fund Public Centers specifically devoted to supporting the development of new inventions?
How come a writer needs to write "blind?" Why can't a writer benefit from what can now be accomplished via the network of online resources which include vast amounts of stored and accumulated information?
We need software that reads what you’re writing as you write and compares it to online databases. The software then makes comments and suggestions. These include sourcing, warning and argumentative comments.
