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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
If you merely retell stories about kelp characters whose stories are already lived — if you neglect to tell the photoless, characterless stories of possibility — you are shaping the ideas of the kelp industry down narrow roads. This approach is causing serious stagnation.
Through a very powerful collab with East End Food and Sue Wicks, we’ve pulled together the opportunity for Sue to sell her first commercial season of kelp in shelf-stable food products.
They’re really good, y’all.
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.
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?