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Jamie Persky's avatar

You were really good on that podcast. Proud daughter 🩷

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Maya Frost's avatar

I am right there with you, Sue! ❤️

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Benjamin Spock de Vries's avatar

No one take the challenge? I LOVE problems. Complicated, difficult, seemingly unworkable problems. The reason I love problems is that they challenge me to create solutions. I am already loaded with solutions. Here is a sample:

https://substack.com/@benjaminspockdevries151264/p-148380071

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SUE Speaks's avatar

In the lineage of permaculture, it looks like you are taking it further than it has gone. That makes total sense for how to run a sustainable world. How exciting it would be if, as a culture, we focused on that redesign. Is there practicality in the world that has so many people in it?

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Benjamin Spock de Vries's avatar

So do I get the $100? It goes a long way in Kolkata.

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SUE Speaks's avatar

What you're into and up to are well worth dealing with, but I'm not focused on new systems. I'm looking for a change in our thinking to where we'd be implementing them. Once the Berlin Wall came down, a whole new reality was able to come into being, but, in the comparison, it's getting that wall down I'm focused on.

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Benjamin Spock de Vries's avatar

There are not so many people in it.

I am now in Kolkata, a city twice the population of NYC, one of the most densely populated areas of the planet. Even the Bengal countryside is full of villages, people everywhere. Still, there has been no famine since 1976, and it EXPORTS rice to the rest of India.

We have all the solutions we need. It is a matter of making them efficient and scaling them.

Here is another solution set as I presented at conference, do see notes and supporting videos:

https://youtu.be/tgCAkP9_GJg?si=aH0k7LRzqWlvITRp

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