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The Brooklyn Diaper Project
addressing one of NYC families’ most urgent issues with new, creative solutions
What do you call a perfectly reasonable idea worth fighting for nestled amid a dystopian landscape?
A demonstration of Impact is the golden ticket. Groups that can lay claim to carrying the highest impact offer the maximum promise of stature, luring donors with a numerical demonstration of gravitas.
Lazy Point Farms
supporting the future of kelp farms for the environment and for local economies
Suffolk County faces a ripe opportunity to create and benefit from a thriving seaweed industry by adding seaweed aquaculture to its lease program. Through our enthusiasm and partnership with the county for efforts both currently underway and future, we at Lazy Point Farms encourage and endorse this proposed effort.
As a process-art person, I do not see my work on this curriculum as a finished product. It will only really begin to take shape once it’s utilized by educators. I want this material to live, breathe and evolve, and I will continue to serve as a consultant, connecting teachers with experts and other teachers, allowing students to showcase their work publicly. Even if they have more questions than answers.
Kelp is decidedly not the new kale- and thank goodness for that. Kale can keep its seat on whatever throne it’s claiming. Kelp is running an entirely different race. It’s fundamentally different and is qualitatively better suited to claim more corners in more pantries across the United States.
Mother nature is an absolute mastermind of balancing intricate ecosystems with kelp as her ride-or-die since the beginning, and you are going to try to tell me that Kathy Hochul, behind her veneered wooden desk, is here to decide at this particular moment for all of us whether or not kelp has a positive, meaningfully urgent, place on this planet? Please.
In the context of diaper need, if we say ‘end’, we mean we’ve successfully reverse-engineered our broken corporate and philanthropic tools to outpace the Gap. If you reach the end of diaper need, does it necessarily mean you have secured a solution to the problem?