Schools in (Design) Session

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• Brainstorm to develop both job and learning opportiunities through project based learning started at the greenhouses, establishing them as a base camp for real world learning.
• Set up residential community of bees to increase plant propogation. Teach beekeeping while taking part in global environmental impact learning studies about bees.
• Develop digital communications and storage techniques establishing web based information systems accesible to all as open source learning.
• Develop new on and off site composting projects. The compost can obviously be used for vegetable and landscape gardening. This could also blend into the reforestation projects
• Develop new and old understandings of efficient means of food production and share these practical understandings with individuals, communities and institutions to help them provide nutritious foods for their culinary needs.
• Work with programs already underway in these greenhouses to teach people challenged by accessibility issues how to grow their own foods and flowers.
• Explore ways to prepare foods for consumption and storage using various safe practices like canning, solar dehydration, solar cooking and many other yet to be discussed practical applications.
•    Partner with existing academic programs to provide adjunct and post learning opportunities. Helping to establish a 21st century mandate to lessen the real costs associated with public education by taking it into the community. Oakland technical schools has a landscape design course covering many aspects of horticulture and aquaculture. There are many people who have been through that program and have either under or never utilized the tools learned there. It is said that there are over 100 trees planted on the Big lake campus alone and identifying them is part of the academic process. One outcome could be...
• We need a STAT program to asses the health of our forests and riperian corridors for development of a workable reforestation plan. This alone could provide not only employment for thousands but approached from a a holistic viewpoint could be used to better understand nature and help develop the objective science based truth about natural systems including among other things humanities impact upon it, whether positive or negative.