And then on YouTune there’’s an award winning high school physic teaching who has a video on “free energy”. He’s teaching studnets there is such s thing as “free energy” if it comes from the sun.
Fortunately for you, in my book, you also have one of the greatest teachers and most admirable men I have ever heard of.
This guy ought to be a role model and his achievements made known to every teacher in the world far as I'm concerned. If just 2% of teachers had the passion this guy has, not only would schools be a better place, but truly the world would be.
Don't know if this guy should be a teacher or a world leader.
Guess he's both already.
@george80 Isn’t this guy a modern day Eva Peron or Robin Hood? It’s so easy to feed people when other people are forced to give you free money (taxes), free land and free/volunteer labor isn’t it?
What kind of role model is that? In the history of the United States we tried something similar which resulted in the killing of over 100 million Native Americans as we stole their land. Then we “tricked” them into working for free for “us” for food other we just inslaved.
There is no mention at all of the people this guy is making homeless by taking their land. Or the “honest” hard working farmers who make a living by selling the food they grow. With this guy giving food away just think of all of the farmers he’s impacting.
Well, if you are talking about the homeless people who "sleep rough" on these bits of vacant land, they don't really own the land, & could be turfed out on their ear by developers at any time.
But that would be all right,----- because of market forces, etc.
The gardens are pretty small stuff in the scheme 'of things, & wouldn't have a major impact upon farmer's incomes.
Hell!, they've got something similar in my home town, but they don't have a "show pony " running it!
I notice this guy or any company isn’t converting any of the bio-waste he’s creating into biofuels. With all of the free money and resources this guy is getting one would think if turning bio-waste into biofuels was worth it he would be doing it. But he’s not.
Again, despite the hype, it's pretty small stuff in the scheme of things, & like anything else, there is a critical mass beyond which it is worth doing.
In the United States we call what this guy is doing Communism. This is something Americas faught against for decadess. If you think communism is so great why aren’t you living in a communist country?
That's Communism?
I don't remember dear old Nikita Kruschev, or Leonid Brezhnev giving anybody anything free!
That old Commie Jesus Christ gave away "loaves & fishes", though, so we mustn't follow his example!
He drank, too--remember when he turned water into wine!
Hold on a second my friend lets see if the Green Bronx program fits the detonation of communism?
Communism is a classless social system with one form of public ownership of the means of production and with full social equality of all members of society. Under communism, the all-round development of people will be accompanied by the growth of the productive forces on the basis of continuous progress in science and technology, all the springs of social wealth will flow abundantly, and the great principle "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" will be implemented. Communism is a highly organised society of free, socially conscious working people a society in which public self-government will be established, a society in which labour for the good of society will become the prime vital requirement of everyone, a clearly recognised necessity, and the ability of each person will be employed to the greatest benefit of the people.
And yes the teaching of Jesus Christ are comunistic far more so than capitalistic.
I want to thank you for challenging me on this and I have spent time researching what this teacher is doing. The TED video is 5 or 6 years old and it appears the teachers program has changed over time. In newer materail they claim they are giving 5,000 prounds of food away for free every year. This is not given to the kids families but to cancer patients who can afford food.
What he’s doing is certainly not capitalism or socialism.
The guy in the video is an elementary school teacher. His garden is in his classroom which is on the fourth floor of a public school. Not sure how an elementary school teacher is getting these students high paying jobs. It’s also unclear if he’s now an elementary school science teacher? Or if he teaches a grade of studnets. If he’s a science teacher he spends maybe 30-45 minutes per week with studnets from all grades throughout the school year. Vs, teaching one grade level of 25 students for a year. I suspect he’s a science teacher.
I think you are correct this program is very small and there is a lot more hype to it. For a public school he has a lot of very expensive equipment and supplies, but I suspect this is due to the corporate sponsorship as there is no way a public school would have funds for the equipment and supplies the guy has.
It looks like the garden in the street is a separate but related program. I don’t think he runs the street garden program. It looks like that is really run by four volunteers. Based on the amount of high quality PR there is about this progam I suspect the seed money for the program is the result of several well written grants and a lot of politicking.
I’ve got to hand it to the guy he’s doing a wonderful job. It would be interesting to see of the guy is really making an impact on these kids lives. He’s been doing it long eneough that many of his stundent would have entered the workforce by now. And he said in the video he’s in an area with 40% unemployment and where 99% of the students qualify for the free food programs. (Meaning tax payers pay for the food and the preparation of the food these kids eat.). Not sure if this would be communism or socialism but its sure not capitalism.