"This June, let ideas bust out all over" by Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist | May 31, 2009
Creating new industries is what we've done in these parts to deal with economic disruptions for more than 200 years.... how to come up with the new ideas, products, and businesses that make economic rebounds possible.
Like clean energy and biotechs that never turn profits?
Maybe you want to think about ways to expand your company's internship program or ways to get more young scientists schmoozing with the senior scientists at your biotech firm. Maybe you want to start a monthly lunch for environmental entrepreneurs in your area or help get more people involved in a robotics competition that already exists at your local high school.
Yeah, AGENDA-PUSHING JOBS all that WILL NOT SAVE OUR ECONOMY!!!
See: The Power of Green
In order to make this communal brainstorming public - and to enable all of us to spread the word about the great ideas that bubble up - I'd encourage you to blog, Tweet, create Facebook groups, or otherwise publish what you're doing....
Related: Twitter and Life in the Shitter
You know, I heard the same thing: Turn the Page on Twitter
WTF is with the MSM's obsession with that piece of crap (which is why I do not trust it)!
Type "Twitter" or "Facebook" into my blog search and see what you get.
I suggest we spend the next 30 days talking about (and working on) new ways to spark innovation across New England.
I've got a suggestion for the next thirty days: HAMMER HOME 9/11 TRUTHand EXPOSE the S*** NEWS MEDIA of AmeriKa!!!!!!
But hey, an INTERNSHIP sounds GOOD, doesn't it, kiddo?
"Summer internships are going organic; College student interest in farms reaches a high" by Kim Severson, New York Times | May 24, 2009
NEW YORK - Erin Axelrod, who graduated from Barnard College last week with an urban studies degree, will not be fighting over the bathroom with her five roommates on the Upper West Side of Manhattan this summer. Instead she will be living in a tent, using an outdoor composting toilet, and harvesting vegetables on an organic farm near Petaluma, Calif....
See: Slow Saturday Special: Tent City
Part of a new wave of liberal arts students who are heading to farms as interns this summer, in search of both work, even if it might pay next to nothing, and social change....
Of course, employing people who know a lot about food systems but nothing about farming can be as much a headache as a help. Manure spreaders get broken, carrot shoots get pulled instead of weeds, and people sleep in. It is not all hayrides and flowers for the apprentices, either.
Katherine L. Adam, who runs the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service, financed by the Department of Agriculture, gets complaints from interns who say the amenities are not good enough or the farmers work them too hard.
That's what illegals are for!
Like they told me, kiddo: you don't like it, QUIT!
No one is making you work there.
Still, (sigh) during a recession, a summer on the farm provides respite from grim job hunts and as much bohemian cachet as backpacking through Europe.
Yeah, SHOVELING SHIT for the SUMMER is as good as BACKPACKING ACROSS Europe! Have you HAD IT with the ELITE INSULTS yet?
But for many students, farm life is a way to act on the growing enthusiasm for locally raised food and the increased concern over food safety and the environmental impact of agriculture. Some students say food is the political movement of their time.... an outgrowth of his interest in environmental issues.
Translation: the state-school inculcation and indoctrination worked on the kids (I saw it first hand).
But food policy is much more personal than deforestation or global warming. "Everyone eats, and everyone has a vested interest in this," said Jamie Katz, an English major at Kenyon College in Ohio.
Why does it seem every source the Globe cites or talks is a jew?
The new rush from campus to country is not among conventional agricultural students from land-grant schools. Many of those still seek internships on large-scale farms or with companies like Monsanto, although interest in studying conventional agriculture has been in decline for at least a decade, said John P. Reganold, a soil science professor at Washington State University. To counter that, Washington State in 2006 became the first university to offer an organic farming degree, he said.
The THOUGHT is great; however, LEAVE IT to the LOCALS, Monsanto and mouthpiece MSM! I'm already not trusting this program because it is a) financed by agenda-pushing government, and b) it is being promoted by the MSM papers.
Are the LIES really in YOUR INTEREST?
About a third of the new agrarians will receive college credit, he and other professors estimated. The rest have to be satisfied with room, board, and a stipend that can be as little as $25 a week and as much as $300 a week or more at larger farms.
That won't be paying any tuition bills for you -- or much of anything else. I'd buy a six-pack or two (if I drank) with it, kiddos!!!
"Working on the farm really doesn't pay that much, so it's not helping me economically," said Gina Runfola, an English and creative writing student, who has left New York University and plans to attend a less expensive college. "But it's free room and board while I figure out my next move."
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Oh, I'm ready to go work on the farm, ain't you?
Just wondering WHERE is YOUR TRILLION DOLLAR BAILOUT, kids!
