TED Community » Rebecca A. Behar-Johnson

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I'm passionate about

Education, Public Health, Sustainable Living, a viable Democracy, and Preservation of wild spaces are among my greatest concerns.

An idea worth spreading

Neighborhood associations that focus on "small energy collective" ideas. The idea being that neighborhoods are small enough to work together on sustainable projects, but large enough to collectively defray the costs and share the savings of solar power, grey water, and green waste composting.

Talk to me about

Urban retrofitting for grey water systems, green waste recycling, bee keeping, and neighborhood composting programs.
Solar collectives for neighborhoods.
K-12 education!

People don't know that I'm good at

I write and edit well.
Good evaluation/ assessment skills.
I see connections.

Comments

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• A comment on Conversation: How would you redesign the current high school program?

  Dec 6 2011: I would create some permaculture principles as part of the learning community. Using the positive, solutions-oriented holistic design science of permaculture, we can redesign our urban environment to integrate harmoniously with nature, learning to observe and solve problems the way she does. There are several resources for course materials on the internet.
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  A comment on Talk: Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration

  Dec 6 2011: Creative thinking and collective action, used for more multitasking.
  Human Authentication and Language translation and Decoding of books.
  The most interesting point: the tackling the issue of motivating people to translate for free.
  If we better understood the way to motivate people - what would be possible?!
  Duolingo. Brilliant.