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    Ravenous: Superstructure Co-ordination, Agricultural Initiatives

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    Started by: Prophessor Bedlam Raves:2 Badge Winner! Cooperation Radar

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    There are a lot of these, but there ought to be, seeing as they're concerned not just with feeding over six billion people, but with doing so sustainably. Since there are so many, I'll try and organize them into sub-topics. The idea is to help them know about each other and to get them involved with each other both in and out of the thread, generating more ideas. As new agricultural superstructs are formed, I'll edit the opening post to include them. If your agriculture-oriented superstructure isn't represented here, post and let me know. Don't like what I said about your superstructure? Post. I'll probably change it.

    Location-based:

    Rooftop Cultivation Association (http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/1): The first superstructure, it's concerned not with actually producing food, but with designing ways to use extraneous space in urban environments for food production.

    Rooftop Kitchen (http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/77): While the RCA is building gardens that can be installed on roofs, these people are converting roofs themselves into viable space for growing.

    Community-based:

    Urban Food Producers Coop (http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/28): The co-op is designed to help urban agriculturalists to band together, both to exchange produce and other items, as well as for protection from poachers and thieves.

    Share your seeds (http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/30): As it says, it's a seed sharing struct, and one that's already connected to a number of other farming and transporation-related superstructures.

    Grow Community Gardens (http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/188): Another community garden superstrust, this one focuses on helping children to contribute by teaching them to garden, as well as converting abandoned buildings into urban gardens.

    GardenGateway (http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/43): A little empty, but the idea is sound. If we're going to pursue urban gardens, we're going to need a way to ensure that we reap the fruits of our labour.

    Food for the People (http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/147): A community-oriented superstructure, Food for the People focuses on developing sustainable food supplies at the local level through education.

    Free Food Free School (http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/203): Looking for not only gardeners but chefs, they plan to offer community workshops not only on how to produce food, but food safety and preparation.

    Globally-based:

    Food diversity (http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/95): Concentrating on disaster mitigation, this superstruct proposes a number of ways in which we could keep our food supplies diverse, and thus harder to lose.

    Terra Perma (http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/101): An ambitious virtual world project, hoping to incorporate weather patterns, climate change, migration data, geotagging and much more, in order to better organize fod production on a global level.

    CRADLE 2 CRADLE (http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/176): Another honorable mention, because while it does concern itself a bit with agriculture and sustainability, it also proposes that we find ways to turn waste into foodstuffs.

    The Food Bank (http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/156): More logistical than agricultural, it gets a mention here because we're going to need somewhere to store food and a way to distribute it to those that can't grow their own.

    Educationally-based:

    Young Farmer's Outreach (http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/244): This budding superstructure introduces an interesting idea: use virtual reality to remotely teach people how to farm.

    Appleseed (http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/46): Appleseed proposes a unique idea about using real world data as information for a sim-gardening game, which in turn would help people plan their own crops.

    Thanks for creating this discussion to provide a super-superstructure to the ideas we're coming up with to feed ourselves. Look forward to seeing how these connections continue to link up, and seeing these groups start to work ever more closely together...




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