I love green. Since moving away from Tennessee and spending almost three years between some pretty deserty places (Utah, Arizona, and Central Mexico), I have missed my green rolling hills. Not only do I miss green scenic landscapes, I miss growing things! Growing my own food is one of the joys of Tennessee that I dearly miss, but it hasn't seemed like a particularly viable option in my Provo apartment. I would love to do something like this TED talk describes. A window garden would bring some needed green to my apartment as well as providing something tasty to eat. Crazy cool, right?
But what I found more important about this video is the collaboration that the talk describes. A lot of the message that I'm trying to communicate on this blog is that (1) we have the responsibility to make change and (2) we have the power to do so. The people in this story realized that "it's precisely when we hand over the responsibility for all of these things to specialists that we cause the kind of messes that we see with the food system" (around 1:35). If we want a better world, then we have to go out and make it, not wait for someone else to do so. And you know what the best part is? We can.
Open source collaboration is a fantastic example of how people can come together to do good. And there's so much good in the world if you look for it!
http://www.ted.com/talks/britta_riley_a_garden_in_my_apartment.html
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