i have now seen so many youth competition entries relating to nutrition that I will be aiming to make this the first in a series that both cross classifies activist news on food deserts as well as links in as many bookmarks to ongoing student competitions on this app
USA youth generate social business benchmark: Oregon MyStreetGrocery
18 october 2012 jamie oliver at youth world conference -jamie is a british chef who is both a broadcaster and a genuine social activist on both sides of the altantic - when he commits to a local nutrition project you should expect to see it become a movement http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/10/18/4347933/jamie-oliver-inspire... PITTSBURGH, Oct. 18, 2012— /PRNewswire/ -- World-renowned chef and founder of the Food Revolution, Jamie Oliver, joined Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and leaders from the Pittsburgh community today to announce plans for Pittsburgh to embrace the Food Revolution. With One Young World – the premier global summit for young leaders in their 20s – also kicking off today in Pittsburgh, Jamie will inspire One Young World delegates and ambassadors as they work with community leaders to start a local Food Revolution. In Pittsburgh, local ambassadors will be tasked with monitoring and reporting on a number of goals for Pittsburgh to become a healthier, food-conscious city over the next year. To view the multimedia content associated with this release, please click: http://www.multivu.com/players/English/58385-one-young-world-for-yo... Recognizing that obesity levels are soaring in America, in part because today's children are growing up overweight and malnourished from a diet of processed foods, the Food Revolution seeks to educate individuals and families about what's in the food they're eating and encourages them to make better choices in their everyday lives. Jamie's ambition is to create a healthier world by prompting community leaders, businesses and schools to work together to promote food education and provide more families with access to great food. Pittsburgh is the first city to commit to a 12-month plan to kick-start a Food Revolution with six leaders stepping up to set and reach goals that will be included in an end-of-year report. Luke Ravenstahl, Mayor of Pittsburgh, commented: "While Pittsburgh has made significant progress with our local food movement, there is still work to be done. With Jamie as our inspiration, we are committed to working together to make Pittsburgh a healthier city – from ensuring that more of our schools have access to kitchens for fresh food preparation, to empowering families to make better, real food choices." Jamie Oliver, founder of the Food Revolution, commented: "In order for a true food revolution to take place, the entire community has to be involved. I am so proud of Pittsburgh for recognizing this need, and I fully support the Pittsburgh community and local leaders as they make these vital changes." Pittsburgh's plan to embrace the Food Revolution comes at a time when poor nutrition and childhood obesity remain huge threats for America. New research conducted by YouGov® on behalf of One Young World reveals that 86 percent of young adults are concerned that growing levels of obesity in the United States will lead to future health issues. These concerns are not unwarranted, with recent projections from Trust for America's Health indicating that more than half of all Americans in 39 states will be obese by the year 2030. |
Nutrition Social Businesses During my 5 years of researching Grameen Bank I became convinced that it is the greatest youth investment bank ever seen. Mothers of the bank for the poor demanded investment in their next generation's productivity and the first non-financial social businesses offered by Grameen Entrepreneurs were nutritional - starting with vegetable seeds especially carrots so mothers could grow enough vitamin-rich food to end children's night blindness, and the first global social bsuiens partnership with danone (the most nutritional infant yogurt ever served) . From this perspective, it may be no surprise that the most popular student pitches across the US states participating in the first year of yunus social business competitions have had nutrition focuses be these motivated by food security or ending food deserts or more generally fighting the social and economicallt-destructive pandemic of obesity. Competition entries range from extraordinarily innovative processes of organic agriculture like aquaponics to the extraordinary practical - eg why not design a practice franchise so that all middle schools in the state can help their children develop a passion for green fingers. Note the simplicity of just do it with nutrition is on a rise with one of clinton globals 4 civil service prizes of 2012 being awarded to a 14 year old (see www.Katieskrops.com ) and the biggest youth summit of the year (Pittsburgh October) celebrating Yunus and broadcasting superstar of nutritional chefs Jamie Oliver, who is also an activist of social restaurants designed to create jobs as well as providing youth community centres with great nutrition. southern_oregon_aquaponics.pdf eou_communitygarden.pdf soufarmfinal.doc ..Nutrition Discuss how Georgia's entry into ending food deserts can benefit from knowledge of this popular student challenge across all youth social business comoetition states - see below on why food deserts and food security are both one of the most popular student competition pitches and in our view the source of at least 1 million new us jobs in next 5 years if we celebrate youth's best networking solutions in this area; in the fight against obesity they are also a springboard into improving health and lowering costs of healthcare - see upcoming october 2012 keynotes by Jamie Oliver and Yunus at the world youth summit in pittsburgh . NB the pro-youth economics nutrition was the first non-financial service demanded by Grameen Bank members in early 1980s- and became the first application sphere of global social business partner networks with danone in 2006. It is also the lead industry purpose in advancing the conscious capitalism movement whose yunus inspired partner is http://www.wholeplanetfoundation.org/ |
During a press event, held at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden Edible Rooftop in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh, several leaders from the Pittsburgh community shared their goals for the coming year.
Ravenstahl, added:
"While these numbers are scary, it is important to realize that they are just projections – and that means that there is still time to take action. Pittsburgh is proud to be a leader in helping to promote healthier choices."
About One Young World
One Young World is a charity that stages an annual Summit, gathering together the brightest young people from around the world. At the 2012 Summit young leaders from 182 countries will share their vision, views and ideas to create practical and achievable commitments for positive change.
Unlike any other event, the One Young World Summit gives delegates the kind of media platform afforded ordinarily only to those who lead countries and corporations. Delegates speak alongside global figures who this year include former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Bob Geldof KBE, Professor Muhammad Yunus, Kofi Annan, Jamie Oliver, Pete Cashmore and Fatima Bhutto among many others.
The seven areas of focus for the 2012 Summit are:
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===================please note most of this column is due to be re-edited we hope to issue a list of yunus top 10 stories but when it comes to solutions matching those challeges there's all to play for as web3 is humanity's last chnace to leap ahead
hottest youth-spring question of our life and times-can online education end youth unemployment for ever ? yes but only if you help map how!
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About Pro-Youth economics at Norman Macrae Foundation online library of norman macrae - The Economist's Unacknowledged Giant -videos 1 2 -fansweb NMFoundation- youth projects - include yunuschoolusa
fullest press reports Grameen Brand Partnership Architecture
exponential impact advisory: the social business youth networks inspired by muhammad yunus -without which millennium goal actions networks would be way behind are worth far more than any individual parts according to Norman Macrae Foundation trilliondollaraudit methodology and charter notespace
Beyond the extraordinary investment of the members bank at Grameen, and the approximate third share its members foundation holds in grameenphone, here is our Unofficial League Table of Most Impactful Social Business Investments around yunus - last update 1 dec 2012
! Grameen Solar
2 Grameen Mobile Nursing nets and college
3 Portfolio of investments linkedin by Japan
4 Portfolio of youth-led networking inventions in US educationsystem tertiar and secondary - transparency note NM Foundation has minor donation/loan interest
5 Investments in Grameen as collaboration brand linked in out of paris- the origin of global social business partnership funds
6 OpenTech investments of Grameen Intel
-------- while not controlled by yunus we see wholeplanetfoundation microcredit investment table and conscious capitalsm movements and hugely important to advancing pro-youth economicsmission of friends of youth and yunus
email chris.macrae@yahoo.co.ukif you have questions or recommendations of entries that should be in this league table
-please read notes about what pro-youth economists mean by superapps being most
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