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Hi! My name is Leela and I have a project called BYTE: BackYard to Table Experiences. BYTE is a popup food chain where each ingredient is grown organically and locally, and mapped (https://leelamaps.com/?_tags=byte) with an article about it to provide a transparent, open source food supply chain. The initial BYTE foods we have demoed are various whole fruits, salad bar, zoodles and green wraps which consist of: zucchini, tomato, avocado, sprouts, and mushroom ceviche with lemon juice and herbs. These meals are all raw vegan, based on recipes I developed while transitioning to fruitarianism. Reactions to the food, as demonstrated at several events at Lupin Lodge in the Santa Cruz mountains, has been extremely positive. Nothing beats local organic produce grown with love. We aim to source only homegrown ingredients, so the food-making process includes starting the growth of the ingredients to be raised in & near living spaces. The map notes platform Leela Maps (leelamaps.com), has templates to enroll trained gardeners, vacant land, and already productive gardens, so we can decentrally arrange more local growing. The templates have default agreements of free gardening in exchange for a share of the resulting produce that can be sold on a donation-basis at a BYTE event or venue. All agreements are fully customizable, as BYTE is an adaptable format for broadcasting and monetizing locally-grown & -prepared meals. BYTE is still in the early stages, especially since I am a full time mom and my collaborators have full time work obligations. However, development on the foods, gardens & map continues.
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Leela Hann-Soden
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By mapping the locations of ecoresources* and actions, you can help collectively organize 🌱 growing movements 🪱 *ecospaces, compost piles, seed banks, grow proposals, wildfire prevention, etc DIRECTIONS 1. Go to https://leelamaps.com 2. Tap right button, select a form 3. Register, login 4. Share ecoresource EXAMPLES: Ecospaces: https://leelamaps.com/?_tags=ecospace Food Forest Proposals: https://leelamaps.com/?_tags=growhere Fruit Tree Precedents: https://leelamaps.com/?_tags=unexpected-fruit-tree On that platform, anyone can post about the resources they offer, on any terms, as sourcing locally is one of the best things we can do for the planet. https://leelamaps.com/?_tags=eden%2Clooking-for Play around, have fun. 🌳
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Leela Hann-Soden
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Join the premiere of EcoGame! https://mycorrhizal.network Players discover how to grow a lush environment, coordinated by a social web app. #biochar #socialgame #plants
Leela Hann-Soden
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Give your compost a boost by adding the charred material produced in your oven.* “Biochar,” activated charcoal, has been implemented by modern researchers and indigenous Amazonians to increase size and yield of plants, improving plant health, induce drought tolerance, support greater biodiversity, and remediate soil of heavy metals. By composting with biochar, we can grow lots of healthy, local produce to directly improve our wellbeing and our impact on our environment. *Charcoal is pure carbon produced by “pyrolysis,” subjecting biomatter to high temperatures in a low oxygen setting. Charcoal is typically black, in blocks or fine particles, in contrast to ash, which is typically in the form of gray flakes. ... Don’t have land to grow on? Save the biochar compost for step #3!
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Leela Hann-Soden
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Prolific runner, Michael Arnstein, has achieved among the fastest ultramarathon times as a dedicated fruitarian. Upon moving to Hawaii, Michael began growing the seeds of his fruit to provide his neighbors free fruit trees. By sharing the form of sustenance that he and others have used to attain remarkable fitness, Michael Arnstein is drastically decreasing the emissions required to transport healthy food to consumers while increasing the local environment’s conversion of CO2 to oxygen. https://youtu.be/irjr1OjCkRQ
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Leela Hann-Soden
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Throughout the world, living a minimal lifestyle, remediating land and sowing seeds of edible plants in human habitats is illegal and disrupted by law enforcement and public works departments. Disparaged as “homeless,” campers are encouraged to live consumptive lifestyles within constructed environments, rather than given the basic tools and education to live independently and responsibly, generating plants for the people and the planet. Help those who live on the land by signing and sharing the petition: https://change.org/ecocamping https://youtu.be/-kf8IMS_V7E
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Leela Hann-Soden
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Did you know that morels and oyster mushrooms have been observed to grow on cardboard? Pictured: Left: cardboard house filled 1:1 with chunks of oyster mushrooms and cardboard Right: after being moistened and sitting a month in a loosely tucked plastic bag Not pictured: 3 dried oyster fruiting bodies after another month of sitting Disclaimer: I am not a mushroom farmer or consumer, but I thought that this could be fun for those looking for a home project. ✨
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Leela Hann-Soden
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We need to act fast. I propose a “Race for Climate,” in which participants race to tend land and sow seeds. The Race For Climate is assisted by an app, based on local resource mapping platform, Leela Maps, to coordinate the maintenance of land and sowing of seeds at sites for maximum predicted impact on the climate. Additionally, participants can bid on seeds & soil remediation and earn long term rewards to facilitate sowing of high value plants in favorable conditions close to their consumers. To ensure the continuing effectiveness of our efforts, subsequent Pokémon Go-style EcoGames (https://youtu.be/79yctgQVSC0) will guide participants to survey the germination rate and effects of Race for Climate sowing sites and perform follow up remediation and sowing. Data collected from the Race for Climate will be publicly available to aid research on diverse growing arrangements and soil remediation. The groundwork for Race for Climate is close to implementation. I am excited to launch by Earth Day, 2021.
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Leela Hann-Soden
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On pre-industrial climate change: the epidemic that devastated Indigenous Amazonians, known as The Great Dying, had a drastic impact on land use that was a likely cause of The Little Ice Age. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379118307261?via%3Dihub
Leela Hann-Soden
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A tract of land known as “Wood Street,” in Emeryville, California, is home to 150 campers who live in dispersed bands under freeway overpasses, amidst heaps of trash, dilapidated vehicles and a barren environment overwhelmed by industrial waste. Despite the region’s notoriety for criminal activities, local cob builders are collaborating with Wood Street residents to construct a community center out of earth and materials found onsite. Volunteers with the “Cob on Wood” project have built a cob oven, a composting toilet, a water station, a kitchen, a clinic, and a free store. Among the paths between the buildings they have started veggie gardens. The Cob on Wood center is being used and maintained by local residents, who express optimism and enthusiasm for the project and what it means for the direction of Wood Street. Watch Wood Street residents’ reactions to cob buildings: https://youtu.be/9kIlImhPJ_8 Learn more about Cob on Wood at: https://m.facebook.com/CobonWood/ The Cob on Wood center and living spaces throughout the region are under threat of destruction by the city. Please sign this petition to legalize temporary & earthen dwellings, remediating soil, and growing local resources: https://www.change.org/ecocamping
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Leela Hann-Soden
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Members of the Here There encampment in Berkeley, California, have taken to gardening the land they occupy, producing a beautiful environment for the sustenance and enjoyment of themselves and passersby. The plants in their care include numerous vegetables, fruit trees, and wildflowers that attract pollinators. Here There residents are participating in ecocamping: living on the land and fostering locally growing resources available to the public. City governments, such as Berkeley’s, criminalize camping and stewarding public land while it permits businesses and construction companies to import resources from around the world, enforcing lifestyles that place a heavy burden on the environment. Here There is under constant threat of eviction, their gardens destroyed, when the Berkeley city government decides to proceed with an approved expansion of the roadway. This needs to change. As a start, I urge you to sign this petition to legalize & sanction ecocamping: https://www.change.org/ecocamping Learn more about what is growing in the Here There garden and throughout the SF Bay Area: https://link.medium.com/bHE1o4Aapeb
Leela Hann-Soden
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GrowLocal is an open-source platform for local growing resources. We share data with a free map notes app, Leela Maps (www.LeelaMaps.com), where users can find & share edible & functional plants, produce prices, GrowGames, recipes, proposals, soil remediation sites, and much more. By visualizing our resources with online tools, we gain insight and direction for better adapting our environment to serve local needs. More about locally growing resources: https://link.medium.com/VQA7n3Zcleb Pictured: Top: locally foraged oranges, strawberry tree berry, and mahonia berries in repurposed containers Bottom, left to right: map note on ingredient of locally foraged Zesty Mushroom Soup recipe, “SowLocal” game, compost site data, map of earthen structures.
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Leela Hann-Soden
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“EcoCamping” is living pro-generatively with Earth: residing largely outdoors, remediating soil, and sowing seeds of edible & functional plants. By sanctioning EcoCamping, we gain: the regeneration of our pollinator populations, development of new polycultural crops, and free local produce. In collaboration with city governments, academic institutions and citizens, developing an EcoCamper program increases the value of our land by fostering healthy, beautiful and productive living environments. www.change.org/EcoCamping
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Leela Hann-Soden
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What’s better than transplanting trees in far off lands? Growing food locally to avert the emissions and plastic excesses due to global trade! Urban land, often dismissed as toxic, is entirely remediable by implementing indigenous Amazonian technology, biochar. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7397277/#!po=0.390625 City restructuring that prioritizes pedestrian access to fruiting trees, vines, and bushes, provides a solution for climate change and health impacts of modern constructions. Shelters made of compacted earth, known as cob, can be crafted in diverse shapes to accommodate individuals and gatherings, to withstand fires and retain water. Our hands are the foundations of earth-based architecture. It’s time to take a breather from technology. Sow the seeds of the food you most enjoy in the land that we hold so dear. Pictured: first loquat of the season.
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Leela Hann-Soden
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Urban soil is commonly rocky, depleted and compacted with construction debris. The land between encampments near the Here There Sculpture on the border of Oakland and Berkeley, CA, fit this profile. Members of the Here There Encampment have taken to composting with “biochar,” activated charcoal added to decomposing material. Biochar compost has been studied to numerous positive effects as a probiotic medium for improving plant health, growth, and yield, remediating soil of heavy metals and inducing drought-tolerance. (www.CompostIn.Place/Biochar) Charcoal’s extreme porosity allows it to retain moisture and diverse bacterial cultures, that soil fungus exchanges as nutrients for plants in a system known as the mycorrhizal network. The pre-colonial population of 10 million Indigenous Amazonians in dispersed groups remediated the nutrient-poor soil and increased biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest by generating soil, Terra Preta, from mixing biochar with plant debris, carcasses, manure, and broken pottery. Pictured are some of the radishes sown and grown by members of the Here There Encampment in two unwatered 1.5 feet diameter rings around seedling hazelnut trees in a blend of 3 different biochar composts. These radishes are crisp, delicious, and evocatively-shaped, radically shooting past the growth expectations of the “pink beauty” variety. Much more experimentation will need to be performed to understand the effects of biochar and its inoculation composition. The EcoGame Project (www.EcoGame.live) will be implemented for studying the use of biochar in soil remediation for growing local produce.
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Leela Hann-Soden
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Train robots to recognize articles of trash that they can collect, process, and repurpose.
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Leela Hann-Soden
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Urban soil is commonly rocky and compacted from the debris of construction of roads and sidewalks. The land between encampments near the Here There Sculpture on the border of Oakland and Berkeley, CA, fit this profile. Members of the Here There Encampment have taken to composting with “biochar,” activated charcoal added to decomposing material. Biochar compost has been studied to numerous positive effects as a probiotic medium for improving plant health, growth, and yield, remediating soil of heavy metals and inducing drought-tolerance. (www.CompostIn.Place/Biochar) Charcoal’s extreme porosity allows it to retain moisture and diverse bacterial cultures, that soil fungus exchanges as nutrients for plants in a system known as the mycorrhizal network. Indigenous Amazonian‘s implemented biochar to generate rich soil, Terra Preta, that they used to amend the infertile soil of the Amazon rainforest. This practice increased the biodiversity of the regions they inhabited. Pictured are some of the radishes sown and grown by members of the Here There Encampment in two unwatered 1.5 feet diameter rings around seedling hazelnut trees in a blend of 3 different biochar composts. These radishes were crisp, delicious, and evocatively-shaped, radically shooting past the growth expectations of the “pink beauty” variety. Much more experimentation will need to be performed to understand the effects of biochar and its inoculation composition. The EcoGame Project (www.EcoGame.live) will be implemented for studying the use of biochar in soil remediation for growing local crops.
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Leela Hann-Soden
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Sourcing ingredients locally is a direct way of averting the CO2 emissions produced by transportation of our agricultural systems, and connects consumers with the growing conditions of their food. Using the Leela Maps platform, I charted the sources of a locally foraged recipe for others to find. www.leelamaps.com
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Leela Hann-Soden
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Growing local resources is critical for decreasing our dependence on transportation technology of agricultural products. Here are glimpses of the products of local soil, as shown by the various growth patterns of potato plants I planted in urban plots. Activities like this will be facilitated by the EcoGame (www.EcoGame.live).
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Leela Hann-Soden
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Every Saturday at 11 @ the Common Garden, volunteers come to sow and transplant publicly accessible plants, on public land recently remediated by residents of Here There encampment. Among them are diverse edible plants, such as squashes, tomatoes, brassicas (kale, mustard greens, collard greens, chard, cabbage, broccoli), borage, moringa, radishes, potatoes, strawberries, jujubes, guava tree, paw paw trees, hazelnut trees, and more.
Leela Hann-Soden
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www.EcoGame.live www.youtu.be/BxEQLYbB5BY EcoGame is a framework for incentizing players to remediate soil and sow+plant to convert CO2 into oxygen and useful products without emissions. The direction of EcoGaming can include: *conducting decentralized research on soil and plants *bidding and speculate on land+seed futures, as we actively cultivate our local ecosystems for our wellbeing, wealth and the future of our planet This demonstration EcoGame was made with Leela Maps (www.leelamaps.com). To have an autonomously- or player-managed EcoGames with this platform, Leela Maps needs development of features and a cross-platform version. (www.leelamaps.com/upgrades) This is my application to XPRIZE.
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Leela Hann-Soden
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www.EcoGame.live www.youtu.be/BxEQLYbB5BY EcoGame is a framework for incentizing players to remediate soil and sow+plant on public land to directly produce basic resources locally and minimize transportation emissions. This demonstration EcoGame was made with Leela Maps (leelamaps.com). With development of Leela Maps, research can be conducted through autonomously-managed EcoGames. (leelamaps.com/upgrades) The direction of EcoGaming can include bidding and speculate on land+seed futures, as we decide how we cultivate our local ecosystems for our health, wellbeing, collective wealth and the future of our planet.
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Leela Hann-Soden
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EcoGame is a framework for incentizing players to remediate soil and sow+plant on public land to directly produce free basic resources and minimize transportation emissions. This demonstration EcoGame was made with Leela Maps (www.leelamaps.com). To have an autonomously- or player-managed EcoGames, the Leela Maps could be developed with features and a cross-platform version. (www.leelamaps.com/upgrades) The direction of EcoGaming can include bidding and speculate on land+seed futures, as we decide how we cultivate our local ecosystems for our health, wellbeing, collective wealth and the future of our planet. www.youtu.be/BxEQLYbB5BY
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Leela Hann-Soden
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EcoGame.live https://youtu.be/79yctgQVSC0 EcoGame is a framework for incentivizing the remediation of soil and sow+plant on public land to directly produce free basic resources and minimize transportation emissions. The activities of EcoGaming can include sowing sprints, designing locally-based recipes, bidding and speculate on land+seed futures, as we decide how we cultivate our local ecosystems for our health, wealth, and wellbeing of our planet. This demonstration EcoGame was made with Leela Maps (leelamaps.com). To have an autonomously- or player-managed EcoGames with this platform, Leela Maps needs development of features and a cross-platform version. (leelamaps.com/upgrades)
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