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Nourish the Planet: Enabling People to
Teach the World to Feed Itself!Dr. Wayne Dorband
Center for Ecolonomic Excellence and Development (CEED)
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Relax, Sit Back, Listen and Get Inspired!
Don’t worry about taking detailed notes.
I want to stimulate you to think , react and maybe even get excited about doing something!
You’re going to feel like you are getting fed through a fire hose.
I’m told I talk at around 120 mph with gusts up to 200 mph.
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Get Ready for a Wild Ride
SO JUST SIT BACK AND LISTEN
I will send you all my slides and the audio from my presentation.
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Several Titles I Thought About for This Talk
Why Should I Care About Teaching People to Feed Themselves? And, if It is Important, What Can I Do about It?
We Already Know How to Feed Ourselves – Right?
If You Give a Man a Fish You Feed Him for a Day, if You Teach Him to Fish You Feed Him for a Lifetime!
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So Who Am I and Why Should you Listen to Me?
Sixty-One Years Old
Creation of God
Follower of Jesus
Husband of almost 32 Years to the Amazing Deb
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Father of four adult children and four awesome grandkids
Lover of the Planet
Passionate Educator
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Over Competitive and Over-Achieving Jock
Anal Career Scientist
Serial Entrepreneur
Farmer and Renaissance Man
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Growing Up in the High Desert North of Los Angeles
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High School Switch – move to the Beach
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College – Probably way too many years, but I liked it!
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Teaching and Professorship
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Entrepreneurship – Selling Lemonade to the Kids with Lemonade Stands. Deb says “He’s chronically unemployable.”
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Farmer/rancher, Lover of all things God has made!
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Competitor/jock/coach – Tennis, Cycling, Basketball, Climbing, Dogs, Running, Climbing, Pickleball (yes, it’s a sport), etc.
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Today – Our Passion to Make the Planet Better!
Mountain Sky Group succeeded by Dorband & Associates (D&A)
Environmental Consulting – Eliminating risk on contaminated properties www.dorbandassociates.com
Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) –Paradigm shifting new way to build an environmental team www.environmentalprofessionalsnetwork.com
Balanced Life Team (BLT) – Membership network for anyone interested in living a more balanced life based on the principals of a four-legged stool involving physical, mental, emotional/spiritual and financial factors www.balancedlifeteam.com
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Today – Our Passion to Make the Planet Better! The Institute of Ecolonomics (IOE)
The synergy between Ecology and Economy
501C3 Non-profit founded by the late actor/environmentalist Dennis Weaver
Our 20th anniversary this year
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Today – Our Passion to Make the Planet Better!
As Dennis used to say, in his cowboy sort of way –
“We’ve spent billions of dollars and thousands of years screwing the planet up, now we need to show people how they can make a little money making it better.”
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Today – Our Passion to Make the Planet Better!
Dennis was focused on alternative energy and transportation:
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Today – Our Passion to Make the Planet Better!
Our focus because of my life-passion is sustainable living and specifically sustainable agriculture.
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Today – Our Passion to Make the Planet Better!
Nourish the Planet, L3C (NTP) and the Center for Ecolonomic Excellence and Development (CEED)
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Enabling People to Teach Others to Feed Themselves
Mission of NTP and CEED
“To Enable One Million Ecopreneurs by 2016 to Teach the World to Feed Itself
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Enabling People to Teach Others to Feed Themselves
How are we reaching this ambitious goal?
ONE ECOPRENEUR AT A TIME!!
We are primarily Researchers and Doer/Teachers
What is a Doer/Teacher?
Not your typical High School or College Teacher who has never done what they are teaching
We believe strongly you cannot teach something you have never successfully done.
So because we are working with many new or “infant” technologies, we need to first work with them (“do” them) before we can teach about them
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Enabling People to Teach Others to Feed Themselves
Most of what we are wanting to teach involves farming (in the soil or in the water – terrestrial or aquatic) so we believe we need to be successfully using these farming methods and technologies ourselves.
If what we are teaching involves home production and personal use then we strongly feel we need to have successfully implemented the technology ourselves.
If what we are teaching involves commercial production then we believe we should PROFITABLY and sustainably have operated the program ourselves.
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CEED currently includes two Global Locations on three campuses:
Two Northern Colorado Campuses
Warehouse/Greenhouse indoor agriculture Center – “the Warehouse”
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CEED currently includes two Global Locations on three campuses:
Two Northern Colorado Campuses
Small acreage foothills farm – Mountain Sky Ranch
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CEED (cont.)
Tropical Region Farm – Yasica Mountain Center, the Dominican Republic
www.yasicamountain.com
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NTP and CEED Initiatives Best of the Best
A “Business Accelerator” focusing on sustainable agriculture development technologies.
Resident program for exceptional ecopreneurs to jump-start their businesses.
We provide funding, R&D space and equipment, training, and mentoring
We get a ownership position in the company
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NTP and CEED Initiatives
Hope for the Hopeless
The “teach a man to fish” model with elements copied from Teach for America and Enlace.
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NTP and CEED Initiatives
Hope for the Hopeless – Camp Huapaca, Madera Mexico
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NTP and CEED Initiatives
Green Hackerspace – the Warehouse, Northern Colorado
“A place to hangout with people you like and build things you want to build”
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CEED Research, Development and Prototype Projects
Super-intensive recirculating aquaculture – salt water, marine shrimp in CO
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CEED Research, Development and Prototype Projects
Aquaponics – Ft. MacMurray, Alberta Canada “Food in a Box”
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CEED Research, Development and Prototype Projects
Sustainable Indoor Agriculture – Akron Indoor Sustainable Agriculture, CO
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CEED Research, Development and Prototype Projects
Urban Farming – Berthoud Urban Farm at Grace Place
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CEED Research, Development and Prototype Projects
Endangered Aquatic Species Banking – coral, CO
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CEED Research, Development and Prototype Projects
Small Acreage Sustainable Farming – Mountain Sky Ranch, Agriburbia
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CEED Research, Development and Prototype Projects
Sustainable Livestock Nutrition – Microgreens (Fodder)
www.sustainablelivestocknutrition.com
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CEED Research, Development and Prototype Projects
Automation and Robotics
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Why Should You Learn How to Feed Yourself?
By 2030 world population will be over 9 billion and it is projected that food will be a critical resource even in wealthy areas of the world, like the US.
Traditional industrial agriculture is rapidly depleting limiting resources like Phosphorous, which as they say “God ain’t makin any more”.
The average distance food comes from today in the US is 1500 miles.
Food quality has become so poor that many significant health issues can be directly related to processed and modified foods you eat.
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Why Should You Learn How to Feed Yourself?
Most Americans are over-weight, due in a large part to the poor quality of their diets.
Many Americans under 30 do not even know where their food comes from.
Working with living things has been closely tied to improved quality of life, greater happiness, and a better ability to favorably interact with those around you.
“getting your hands dirty” on a regular basis is being closely linked to improved immune system performance, thus more disease resistance.
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What are we doing that you can learn from or do with us?
Come and take a tour of one of our two Northern Colorado campuses. We charge a nominal fee of $5 per adult (kids are free) to help offset our time.
Go to www.talkwithwayne.com or call 303-495-3705 to book
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What are we doing that you can learn from or do with us?
We have ongoing volunteer and intern opportunities
Call 303-495-3705 or email [email protected]
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What are we doing that you can learn from or do with us?
Become a member of one of our virtual (internet based) sustainable living and/or environmental learning opportunities.
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What are we doing that you can learn from or do with us?
Enroll in one of our specialized live hands-on educational programs where you can gain practical knowledge and skills regarding sustainable agricultural production.
We will be teaching a 5 day sustainable indoor agriculture Class in January, 2014 Call 303-495-3705 or email [email protected] for more info.
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