Monday, February 18, 2008

Silicone feeding shield upgrades

Breastfeeding moms know:
Clear silicone is nearly invisible. Misplacing your nipple shield is
no good when you live from feeding to feeding.

Enter the designer nipple shield with color coded edges and glow in
the dark outer rim. X2idea since moms really need it.

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Personal energy savings credits

Yes. When you can prove you are saving energy compared to the average,
you get a tax credit. Similar to corporations. Maybe you can trade
your offsets as well. If your whole household saves energy, you get
another break.

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Every kid gets a blog

They need to be heard and it won't cost much. Google could do it for
free. Also comes with their free public library card. Free training
included ( typing lessons too).

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Sunday, February 17, 2008

Band Name: Jeff Hahn Love Child

Seriously. He's my scalable hero. I wish he was my dad.

Corn Alternative Weeds

No freaking clue how this will be done, but we need to do it. Some kind of growing medium that needs very little water, no pesticides, can be grown in the barren desert, and could be used as a rotation crop. Cannabis/hemp still needs water, but it's a possibility.
It has to grow like a weed. It can't be a genetically modified plant (unless you consider breeding modification). We can't live on corn alone. Switchgrass sounds nice, I guess.

Of course, a totally synthetic version of "corn" would be nice, something that could be made in a petri dish medium on a grand scale. It's starting to sound sci-fi, but that's because I am no longer a professional biologist.

Vegetable Cling-Wrap

cellulosic recombinations, ahoy! If they can make a corn-based "plastic" cup, they can make thinner and stickier plastic for use as cling-wrap. While I don't like the reliance on corn-based-everything, I think we can start there. Algae? Anyone?

Creativity Class in High School

SSIA. Art is a nice class, but art springs from a heart of creativity. We all have it, but it gets systematically purged from us if we follow the scan-tron world of mainstream education. Although there are pockets of schools that foster creativity, I think most schools would do well to bring creativity in stages. One crucial step could be bringing to the fore the using one's mind, heart and hands to discover the creative pulse that we all share.

Ideas are nice (as I attempt to show), but there's a lot of creative juice stored away in other places, and it needs recognition and fostering. Perhaps a semester class that has units the way science class does. Field trips, guest speakers, and final projects (ungraded?) to showcase the creative spirit. It needs a interdisciplinary push, a way to uncover the creative in multiple fields of study. Plus, it would be "fun". We all need more of that in school, for heaven's sake.