The Realist Idealist

After being on the road for a week or more I always return home (wherever that may be in a given year) with a wealth of new ideas on my mind.  It’s a timeless tradition for the weary traveler as the myriad airports and jets provide plenty of time (usually more than we’d like) for [...]

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This is awesome.

Salad greens, cherry tomatoes, and chili peppers! Organic! And here’s the really cool thought - hook it up to a solar panel and set it up in sub-saharan Africa, and this could bring vitamins and nutrients to the extreme poor. OK, maybe not feasible on the cost front, but scale it [...]

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Obviously, I think food supply issues are a serious concern, but I’m not about to jump on board with this article from Scotland’s Sunday Herald:
More than 73 million people in 78 countries that depend on food handouts from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are facing reduced rations this year. The increasing scarcity of [...]

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So Jake has been trying to convince me to start blogging. To tell you the truth, I’ve always been a behind-the-scenes kinda girl, so putting your thoughts out there for the world to see is a whole new experience for me. The topic that I have been itching to put my fingers to the [...]

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