For humanity’s continued health and prosperity, we all—individuals, businesses, political leaders, religious leaders, scientists, and people in every walk of life—must work hard to solve these five global problems, starting today:

1.Climate Disruption 2.Extinctions 3.Loss of Ecosystem Diversity 4.Pollution 5.Human Population Growth and Resource Consumption.

1. Stay healthy2. Meet your neighbors3. Get a project4. Practice Collaborative Consumption (the sharing

economy) “…instead of waiting for politicians & corporations to fix the system, it’s possible to create a better one of our own, right under their noses. A new way of living, in which access is valued over ownership, experience is valued over material possessions, & "mine" becomes “ours” so everyone's needs are met without waste.“

Tolerance + Cooperation = Peace

EnergyUse lessInsulate / Weather StripAdd greenhouseSolar power

WaterUse lessCollect itFilterGreywater

FoodBuy LOCAL!Cooperate: CSA / Buying clubsGrow: containers, roofs, mushrooms, fish, guinea pigs, pigeons, etc.Community gardensPlant food trees / guerrilla grafting

WasteRefuse!Reuse.Recycle: compost, worm binsHumanure

Break into villages / pods with community bonding:block parties, sharing / cooperation, neighborhood facilities.

Care for soil, water, species, increase green biomass

Create people-friendly economics: recycling, barter, new currencies,home business

Decentralize energy production

Transport: mostly rail & bus, bikes, live near work, close morestreets for walking / bike zones.

Measure success by resilience not growth.

Replace quantity, expansion, competition, & domination w/ quality,conservation, cooperation, & partnership.

L.A. gives 70% of its space to cars

Hong Kong raises 45 % of its food.

VULNERABILITIES: Threats to food security due to peak oil:

1. Increased food prices due to higher fuel costs for production, processing, & transport.

2. Increased food prices &/or shortages & falling food production from shortages of ag inputs (fuel, fertilizer, irrigation, water).

3. Increased prices, or shortages of grain, cereals, & meat & dairy due to diversion of grain for ethanol.

4. Shortages of grain due to increased purchasing by foreign governments (China, India, others) to cover shortfalls in domestic production as a result of energy, climate or land problems.

5. Shortages of food plus spoilage in transit or storage due to power outages and electric grid disruptions .

6. Abrupt disruption in fuel supplies due to sudden loss of confidence in U.S. $ &/or political embargo of oil shipments with dislocation of the trucking industry.

7. Trucking strike related to fuel price rises & a squeeze on driver incomes.

8. Disruptions to the food supply system due to a lack of credit, bankruptcies, or other financial failures.

9. A major earthquake on the New Madrid fault.

Toward Greater Local Food Production

1) Enlist private sector cooperation;

2) Advocate for local food production & increase access to information to support food production & processing;

3) Remove or reduce legal, institutional, & cultural barriers to farming within & around the city, & open institutional markets to local food;

4) Reserve open land for food production & make more land available;

5) Create & expand local food processing & distribution;

6) Organize direct support with the city & other public agencies to address infrastructure needs for water supply, fertility collection & distribution, food processing, storage, & marketing;

7) Support for new farmers, including training, land access, low-cost start-up loans, & property tax abatements or land rent offsets.

Create a community food security plan.

Plant edible landscapes on public property.

Train & deploy hundreds of new urban garden farmers.

Increase number & scale of community gardens.

Organize City-led horticultural services to include organic waste collection, processing, and distribution.

• Create a City nursery of edible perennials for City Depts & residents;• Establish perennial food forests on public land by grafting & planting fruit & nut trees;• Institute urban forestry & composting programs to harvest the carbon & compost it for growers. (e.g., cardboard, hair from salons, pre- & post-consumer food waste, brush trimmings);• Promote home-scale composting of kitchen & yard wastes;• Create a City arboretum of economic / useful species; &• Establish additional local seed banking facilities.

Support local aquaculture productionof fish, shrimp, clams, crayfish, & wetland species.

Through education & funding, work to increase food storage in household & community pantries to three months supply for all residents. STOP BUYING processed, packaged food.

Expand water storage within the city to support agriculture.

Increase the area available for year-round growing (covered or greenhouse space).

Establish food business incubators w/ access to community kitchens.

Dedicate public land to intensive garden farming in city limits & identify additional acreage for future use.

Identify food processing & distribution hubs.

Inventory commercial-rated kitchens in the city & identify unused capacity.

Acquire & make available to local animal farmers mobile abattoirs for safe & economic local processing of meat.

Work toward a year-round regional farmers’ market.