RURAL TRANSFORMATIONSTHE INITIATION OF THESE POSTS ON RURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN RE-CREATING SOCIETY IS FOCUSED ON MODELING DEVELOPMENTS BEGINNING IN SOUTH DAKOTA SIMPLY BECAUSE THE AUTHOR HEREOF IS A NATIVE OF RURAL (NEAR) LANE, SOUTH DAKOTA, HIGHWAY 34.
A PEER COLLABORATIVE TO GENERATE A DEFINITIVE GUIDE FOR
RE--FORMING GLOBAL SOCIETY WITH AN INITIAL FOCUS ON AGRICULTURE
AgReCulturing the WORLD
This continuing post, which will always begin with the identifier {Re:SYN7- with sub-identifiers (RT) for Rural Transformations and (UT) for Urban Transformations, this latter including Suburban, Town and Village}, will be the only entry point inviting open participation in the evolving Community of Relational Thoreauian-inspired, Free-thinking, Libertarian, Societal Re-Creating, Humanistic Activists focused on Synthesizing Society. To participate, begin by Adopting-a-Gnome as per the procedure laid out in the post herein titled, Adopt-a-Gnome. Read the section entitled “What is the Adopt-a-Gnome Program” and then follow the directions under “How does one Adopt-a-Gnome?” As a TrueThinker, having subscribed through www.AHAInstitute.TrueThinker.com, one immediately becomes a participating Relational Activist simply by way of the incorporation of their personal MindClone (MyKnowledgeBank) in the AHA! Institute-SYNSoc Community Knowledge Bank; this latter serves as a resource knowledge-base for these Societal Transformations. More specifically, however, each open-entry participant is free to engage actively in Re-Creating Society at whatever level of Pragmatic Knowledge Value they competently offer as assessed by the AHA! Community–Builder(s).
WHY THE RURAL FOCUS? [Data from a report on the 2006 World Water Forum]
Farmers are central to the Global environmental crises. Why?
- 2.5 billion people, roughly 40% of the World’s population, live off the land
- Most live on 525 million small farms of 5 acres or less
- These farmers suffer most from poverty, disease, lack of sanitation and clean water, and lack of educational access
- This accounts for 842 million of the World’s hungry, starving or undereducated
- These farms account for 70% of the World’s water consumption and most of its waste, although these farmers live on less than 2.5 gallons of water per day – one thirtieth of the daily usage in developed nations
Perhaps even more critically detrimental to the Earth’s health is the Western practice of monoculture agriculture. The result is a catastrophe happening.
RURAL TRANSFORMATIONS (to be initiated through several inter-related blogs such as the TrueFarmer.com blog suggested below, BUT WITH AN EXPECTED FOCUS TO BE ON FEATURING THE RURAL LEARNING CENTER OF HOWARD, SOUTH DAKOTA)
The purpose for these blogs is that they might serve as the unifying platform for creating/organizing the virtual collaborative and integrated learning (knowledge development and diffusion) environment to help rural communities achieve viable and vital futures.
RURAL TRANSFORMATIONS (to be initiated through several inter-related blogs such as the TrueFarmer.com blog suggested below, BUT WITH AN EXPECTED FOCUS TO BE ON FEATURING THE RURAL LEARNING CENTER OF HOWARD, SOUTH DAKOTA)
The purpose for these blogs is that they might serve as the unifying platform for creating/organizing the virtual collaborative and integrated learning (knowledge development and diffusion) environment to help rural communities achieve viable and vital futures.
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