Eric Rafael Weaver Special Offering

Good Day!

Here is an outline of the new sample workshops I can do for you.  I am employed at the Patel College of Global Sustainability where I have helped with their new core courses and authored these other works: http://youtu.be/7AzL3Tg2Mzk.  Please consider hiring me to teach these workshops for the coming term, either online or in-class: http://www.starsusa.org/teach/

I have had over 150 students in an online course.  Together we can learn how to step this up.  In the same light, below is a list of my skills and experiences to support this.  My thought is to enhance our collaborations through transparency.

My Skills are:

1. Technology including web sites, videos, and computer software
2. Patent innovation, prototyping, and entrepreneurship
3. Organizing knowledge, skills, and collaboration = Team Building

Started business websites:	Classes as TA, author and/or instructor:
Stormwater modeling: Professional	4631 Critical Issues in Public Hlth
Patent development: Patents	6102 Principles of Hlth Pol and Mgmt
Education services: Philanthropy	6147 Managing Quality in Hlth Care
USF Graduate Student: Personal	6421 Public Health Law and Ethics
	Complexity Communities Supported
Personal Passions:	The Social Entrepreneur Presented
MBA Student Patent Project	Social Entrepreneurship as Urban Ag Proposed
Public Health Complexity Group	Sustainability Lectures Outlined
Research IWRM Blog
Assessment LEED Innovations	Social Media
Community Redevelopment Innovations	Youtube videos
	Linkedin business links
	Timebank local services

I retired from engineering consulting in 2004 to return to teach.  My daughter graduated from USF with honors and now teaches elementary school, while my son is excelling in the Architecture program.  Now free to pursue my own passions, I inspire collaboration to enhance opportunities.  I welcome developing new projects and knowledge sharing.  I will continue to develop and learn how to better share my passions, and welcome your thoughts.

Have a wonderful Day
Eric

Eric R. Weaver, MBA, MSMS
Research Associate, Patel College of Global Sustainability
Mail: CGS0101 || Office Location: CGS0210
(813) 974-8337 || (813) 974-2522 fax

http://psgs.usf.edu/

http://eweaver.myweb.usf.edu/

La Via Campesina : International Peasant Movement

La Via Campesina : International Peasant Movement

A movement born in 1993

A group of farmers’ representatives – women and men- from the four continents founded La Via Campesina in 1993 in Mons, Belgium. At that time, agricultural policies and the agribusiness were becoming globalized and small farmers needed to develop and struggle for a common vision. Small-scale farmers’ organizations also wanted to have their voice heard and to participate directly in the decisions that were affecting their lives.

La Via Campesina is now recognised as a main actor in the food and agricultural debates. It is heard by institutions such as the FAO and the UN Human Rights Council, and is broadly recognized among other social movements from local to global level.

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs: Stay Hungry & Stay Foolish

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Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address: Sometimes life hits you with a brick, don't lose faith => love what you do, but don't settle!!! Keep Looking Don't Settle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc&feature=share&list=TLAICu6dyjOzY

"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life"

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Man is a tool Maker to amplify their skills:

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Teams make is - - with 60 Minutes: Starting Pixar

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Thomas Edison of Our times: Game Changer

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"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." Stanford Report, June 14, 2005

Over 1 million Vietnamese farmers benefits from SRI

Over 1 million Vietnamese farmers benefits from SRI - People’s Army Newspaper Online
find more here: http://sri.ciifad.cornell.edu/

QĐND - Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 20:48 (GMT+7)

PANO - Vietnam celebrated over a million small-scale farmers who are embracing a technique that grows more rice with less seeds, fertilizer, water, and pesticides in an event at Thai Nguyen University of Thai Nguyen province on October 18^th. 

The technique is called ‘system of rice intensification’ or SRI for short, which is a package of good agricultural techniques for hand-planted rice that helps farmers reduce their costs while increasing their production.

Kitchen Nano Garden | Industrial Designers Society of America - IDSA

Kitchen Nano Garden | Industrial Designers Society of America - IDSA

Kitchen Nano Garden

Nano Garden is a vegetable garden for the apartment kitchen, using hydroponics, so you don't need to worry about pesticides or fertilizers. Instead of the sunlight, Nano Garden has lighting which promotes the growth of plants. The amount of light, water and nutrient supply is also controllable, so you can decide the growth speed. It lets you know when to provide water or nutrients to the plants, which makes it easier to grow them. Moreover, Nano Garden functions as a natural air purifier, eliminating unpleasant smells.

Contact: Seul Ki Park: sorokii@hdec.co.kr

Credit: Hyunjung Lee, Jaeyong Park, Changjin Shon and Seulki Park of Hyundai Engineering & Construction (South Korea) and Ill-woong Kwon of Gromo (South Korea)

another: http://www.urbancultivator.net/kitchen-cultivator/

Urban Cultivator Residential

The Urban Cultivator Residential is an all in one indoor home garden. You get 365 days of perfect growing conditions for all of your favorite herbs and veggies. No more soggy super market herbs going bad in your fridge... just fresh crisp herbs from your very own garden.

Publications | Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition

Publications | Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition
OHCC produces a number of educational publications to assist community groups and coalitions in their efforts to improve the well-being of their communities. Many of our resources have been updated recently, reflecting changes in conditions and trends within Ontario and, in some respects, nationally and globally.

To order our publications in print format please contact us.

• Healthy Communities: An Approach to Action on the Determinants of Health in Canada
• Our Communities, Our Health, Our Future : Understanding and Changing the Built Environment
• From the Ground Up: An Organizing Handbook for Healthy Communities
• Healthy Food, Healthy Community: A Community Action Guide
• Strategies for Effective Proposal Writing
• Inclusive Community Organizations: A Tool Kit
• Communities and Local Government Working Together: A Resource Manual of Strategies

Sedgwick, Maine is first town to declare total food sovereignty, opposing state and federal laws

Sedgwick, Maine is first town to declare total food sovereignty, opposing state and federal laws

According to the website FoodRenegade.com Sedgwick is the first city in the U.S. to free itself from the constraints of federal and state food regulation. Published reports say the town has passed an ordinance that gives its citizens the right "to produce, sell, purchase, and consume local foods of their choosing," regulations be damned. The ordinance includes raw milk, meats that are slaughtered locally, all produce and just about anything else you might imagine.

And what's more, three additional towns in Maine are expected to take up similar ordinances soon, said the FoodRenegade.com.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/039633_Sedgwick_food_freedom_federal_laws.html#ixzz2YSi6ZQ00

Food and Fertilizer Technology Center

Food and Fertilizer Technology Center

Although many valuable technologies have been developed by research institutes, they are often too expensive for small-scale farmers to adopt. The Center feels that labor-saving farming methods using locally available low-cost inputs are often better suited to small farms. This book is based on a survey carried out in 1997 on low-cost indigenous technology for livestock in Asia. The 75 items were collected from four Asian countries namely, Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan ROC, and Thailand. It is the concern of the Center to disseminate such technologies so that farmers in other parts of the region can benefit from them

Recorded Lectures Given by Alan Chadwick

Recorded Lectures Given by Alan Chadwick

Lecture 1 (The Vision of Biodynamic and Organic Gardening, Cultivation)

Part 1.1 (Quotes by Lindsey Robb and Robert Graves; Agriculture and Horticulture; Long term vision of the garden and orchard is necessary; Gradual development of soils, both in the wild and in the garden; Recovery back from destructive elements in the world through the moral attitude of the gardener; the Cornucopia; Cleansing the air through the developing life of the garden.) 10:13

A World of Hope! with John Jeavons

A World of Hope! with John Jeavons
How fortunate we all are that we have farmable soil.

Soil, so easily taken for granted, is truly amazing when we realize how long it takes to "grow" soil in nature—and how fast we use it up growing food. Six inches of farmable soil is needed to grow food and other crops. In Nature, soil genesis takes an average of 500 years on the Earth to grow one inch of this wonderful element. This means it takes 3,000 years to grow six inches. In California, where I live, it takes four times longer due to the original geologic material and our climate—or 2,000 years for one inch and 12,000 years for six inches! We need to learn patience!

Just imagine—a significant part of the soil providing the World's nourishment was first developing about 1,000 B.C. when the Romans had primitive chariots, and a key part of the soil that a thriving Californian agriculture possible was beginning to grow about 10,000 B.C. during the Stone Age! This—in one way— slender foundation is what makes it possible to fly in jet planes while we are using laptop computers.

French Intensive Gardening

French Intensive Gardening

As the name suggests, French intensive gardening was developed in France from where it spread to other parts of Europe and the world. This method is also known as biodynamic agriculture, Marais system and square-foot gardening. The main objective behind this method is to generate maximum yield in least possible space. Although this method defies certain preconceived notions about agriculture and farming, it is highly effective.

What is French Intensive Gardening?

It is a method invented to maximum possible yield with the help of particular changes in the garden layout and using biodynamic agricultural techniques. Apart from being productive, through this method a huge variety of crops can be produced within the limited space. Planning is extremely important here as the type of crop and method of planting need to be carefully determined well in advance.

A unique aspect of French intensive gardening is the use of raised beds. The gardening beds are huge which allows people to walk through the entire area in order to maintain the garden. The garden beds are dug up twice which means that the soil below is loose and worked up. Due to this, light and fluffy soil is generated which is them improved by addition of humus and compost, leading to a respectable plant growth with wide and deep roots.

Instead of flattened garden beds, this gardening style advocates mounded beds which increase the surface area and thereby facilitate more planting. Establishing these kinds of beds takes a lot of effort but people feel it is worth it, as the yield is excellent. To maintain the garden bed, it has to be watered lightly everyday along with regularly adding compost and fertilizers.

Plant spacing is another important feature here. Plants are grown in proximity to each other which ensures the soil staying moist and prevents unwanted weed growth.

French Intensive Gardening Methods

Catch Cropping
As per the climatic conditions, normally it takes a lot of months to harvest a crop in the same place where a crop was previously harvested. During this period, quick maturing or fast growing crops like radish, onions or lettuce can be grown to utilize the idle space.

Inter-cropping
In this method, to utilize all available space in the best possible manner, a fast-maturing crop is planted between rows of crops which grow slowly. Quick maturing crops like onions, lettuce or radish can be planted between (or within) rows of slow maturing plants like cabbage, tomatoes or broccoli.

Succession Planting
This method involves planting the same quick-maturing crop over a period of 1 to 4 weeks. Plant one row each of lettuce, radish and spinach and leave some space around the planting which can be used later. After a week, plant one more row each of all the plants and do the same one week later as well. Subsequently, when one row is harvested, the second will be ready and so on. This will ensure a consistent supply of fast maturing vegetables all through the season.

Relay Planting
In relay planting, an altogether different crop is planted in the same space where a crop is just about to mature. This means that as and when the new crop is prepared for harvesting, the crop planted later has got an early beginning advantage. Thus more crops can be planted in the same space all through the year.

Wide Row Planting
A variation of the inter-cropping method, wide row planting involves planting of plants in groups or rows about 1 to 4 feet wide. Although walking space between the rows reduces, this method facilitates economic use of fertilizers and water. Also, it is tougher for weeds to grow in this kind of an arrangement. Make grids so that it becomes easier for marking out sections and enables proper utilization of space.

It should be noted that French intensive gardening is not for people who pursue gardening as a hobby. Rather only those people who are hardworking and dedicated towards gardening should start it. It involves hard work, especially in the bed preparation and maintenance stage, so only committed gardeners should try this method.
By Suketu Mehta
Last Updated: 9/28/2011
Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/french-intensive-gardening.html

Dashboard - Geneseo Wiki

Dashboard - Geneseo Wiki

• Current Projects Open to Collaboration
• Food and Contemporary Culture
• Archaeology and History of Food
• Food, Nutrition, and Health
• Participants, Meetings, Symposia, and Contact Information
• Annotated Bibliography on Food
• Resources on Food
• Food News
• Ecology of Food - Past, Present, an

Organic School Project

Organic School Project

Organic School Project reconnects our children to their food source through school and community organic gardens. Through that reconnection, we help children eat smarter, make healthy lifestyle choices and nurture our planet as a whole.

Organic School Project has encouraged healthy lifestyles for over 3,500 kids and thousands of families since our founding in 2005. Our mission is to combat childhood obesity and related health epidemics through the Grow Teach Feed model, laying the foundation for urban youth to build sustainable lifestyles.

What Is the Grow Teach Feed Model?

Grow: We reconnect kids to their food source by growing organic gardens with schools and community members. Besides being a science lab where we learn about nature and ecosystems, the garden is a lovely place to get exercise and sunshine, to sit and think, to socialize, and to observe what it takes for living things to be healthy.

Teach: We teach kids and families about nutrition, cooking, and caring for our planet one to four days per week, depending on the partner school’s needs. Our lessons get kids and adults interacting with nutrition through cooking and learning about healthy foods and where they come from.

Feed: We feed kids More Positive Foods as after-school snacks and ingredients in cooking lessons. More Positive Foods are wholesome, less processed, over 70% organic, and sourced locally when seasonally available—as often as possible, directly from the school’s own garden!

P2P Foundation

P2P Foundation: Welcome to the P2P Foundation

Welcome to the P2P Foundation

The P2P Foundation is an international organization focused in studying, researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices in a very broad sense. This website is our knowledge commons and it's collaboratively build by our community.   



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Campesino a Campesino - P2P Foundation: By Eric Holt-Giménez:

" Latin America’s thirty-year farmer-led movement for sustainable agriculture. El Movimiento Campesino a Campesino, the Farmer to Farmer Movement, is made up of hundreds of thousands of peasant-technicians farming and working in over a dozen countries.

Campesino a Campesino began with a series of rural projects among the indigenous smallholders of the ecologically fragile hillsides of the Guatemalan Highlands in the early 1970s. Sponsored by progressive NGOs, Mayan peasants developed a method for agricultural improvement using relatively simple methods of small-scale experimentation combined with farmer-led workshops to share their discoveries. Because they were producing at relatively low levels, they concentrated on overcoming the most commonly limiting factors of production in peasant agriculture, i.e., soil and water. By adding organic matter to soils, and by implementing soil and water conservation techniques, they frequently obtained yield increases of 100-400 percent. Rapid, recognizable results helped build enthusiasm among farmers and led to the realization that they could improve their own agriculture — without running the risks, causing the environmental damage, or developing the financial dependency associated with the Green Revolution. Initial methods of composting, soil and water conservation, and seed selection soon developed into a sophisticated “basket” of sustainable technologies and agroecological management approaches that included green manures, crop diversification, integrated pest management, biological weed control, reforestation, and agrobiodiversity management at farm and watershed scales.