GAIL [Global Action Improv Lab]

GAIL [Global Action Improv Lab]

The proposed global tax on the super wealthy opens new doors to collaborate on global challenges. All life on Earth is threatened by climate change.

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The impact of climate change on FOOD SECURITY is our first climate change annotation project. Because we need food to survive, it’s an accessible entry point for broad public engagement with climate change. Our invited speakers and hosts for the FOOD SECURITY forum below represent a global network of organizations, each with their own network of contributors. As we develop this pilot, we’ll identify  start-ups with technology to address climate change that funders may want to invest in. We’ll also pilot a new innovation for film, an invention for annotating online media (pat. pend. in the A.I. division of the USPTO).

https://youtu.be/t1hFi4TnkhIneXt forum on FOOD SECURITY

4 IGNITE TALKS @ 7 minutes, then an hour-long discussion (1.5 hours)

SPEAKERS

A Globally Distributed, Decentralized
Think Tank for Collaborative Intelligence 

Jerome C. Glenn – Winner of a Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award 2022, Co-Founder and CEO, The Millennium Project with 70+ nodes worldwide, lead author for nineteen State of the Future Reports, publisher of Futures Research Methodology 3.0, host of World Futures Day, member of IEEE SA on AI Governance.

Advancing Sustainable Global Community Science

Dr. Natasha Udu-gama – Director, Community Science Advancement and Sustainability in AGU’s Thriving Earth Exchange, a global community science program of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), which has 300,000+ members and affiliates in 147 countries. TEX connects communities with scientists for local challenges related to natural hazards, climate change, environmental justice, pollution, resilience and sustainability. 

Closed Loop Farming for Food Security

Scot Bryson – CEO of Orbital Farm, which focuses on the link between climate change and food, founded, then sold a multi-million dollar digital advertising agency, Stone Canoe, named after a Native American story about the Great Peacemaker, who founded the Iroquois Confederacy after crossing Lake Ontario in a white stone canoe. Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation.

How We Share the Global Commons

Dr. Claire Nelson, Sustainability Engineer, Forbes Top 50 female futurist and Keynote speaker, is a board member of the World Futures Studies Federation and Editor-At-Large of its flagship  Human Futures, an award-winning writer and storyteller, the architect of National Caribbean American Heritage Month; honored as a White House Champion of Change;  Author, Smart Futures for a Flourishing World.

Co-Chairs: Zann Gill, Founder, earthDECKS and GAIL. Mike Simmons, Founder, Astronomy for Equity. Co-Hosts: Ulrike Zeshan, Game Lab Lead, GRC and Brock Hinzmann, Chair, Silicon Valley Node, The Millennium Project.

The Graphical User Interface Mock-up below for a Splash Page shows the diversity of major topics introduced in the Food Security forum, a theme that can engage many people with varied interests.

KEY THEMES

Food is a portal to many inter-linked global challenges. Food Security is not only an instance of scientific integrity, legal precedent, and national security but also addresses poverty, equity, and fair livelihood.

1. Food and Climate Change. The United Nations has recognized the impact of climate change on the human right to food. A Nature Climate Change editorial notes the importance of smallholder farms for global food production. Climate change has produced weather-related disasters that impact food security, also recognized by CSIS to have strategic security impacts.

2. Food and Water. Climate change has exacerbated the water crisis, but we are generally ignoring the global emergency that the world is running out of water.  India shows how solar-powered farming can quickly deplete the world’s groundwater supply. See the Bioneers series on water.

3. Food and Our Oceans. The threat of climate change to life in our oceans, combined with human exploitation of sea life for food, is rapidly destroying complex ocean ecosystems.

4. Food and Health. That plastic pollution is a human health hazard is only one of the many ways that air, soil, and water (both freshwater and ocean) pollution impact the health of all life. Food insecurity doubled during COVID.

5. Food and Legal Precedent. Monsanto (now Bayer), and other companies that patent seeds, criminalize farmers who develop their own seeds, requiring them to purchase from corporate monopoly seed-owners. The criminalization of farmers threatens the food security of everyone. Legal precedent should establish that no company has the right to take from the genetic pool of nature that all life has inherited, tweak those seeds and then declare ownership of nature. Monsanto (now Bayer) has sued more than a hundred farmers who have used its seeds without licensing agreements and has settled over 700 cases outside of court. In each of these cases, Monsanto won the court battle. California laws give new freedoms to the cottage food-producing industry.

6. Food and Scientific Integrity. Today four companies – Monsanto (now Bayer), DowDupont/Corteva, ChemChina-Syngenta and BASF – control over 60% of the seed market worldwide. Scientific integrity can prove that nature is continually evolving, that patented seeds, which came from seeds that belonged to everyone, do not remain as they were when patented and continue to evolve. Commodification of seeds exploits the commons and manifests the Tragedy of the Commons. 

7. Food and World Peace. The War in Israel–Gaza illustrates what is now known as “the starvation tactic” with ongoing updates from Al Jazeera. The War in the Ukraine has destabilized the breadbasket of Europe, since Russia and the Ukraine produce nearly 30% of the world’s traded wheat. However, Bayer’s $63 Billion investment in Monsanto seems now to be thriving as a result of the War in the Ukraine. The path to peace starts with food. Food 

neXt network pilots

The neXt forum uses diverse lenses to look at the great World Game challenge and the question: How must “human affairs” change for life on Earth to thrive? Buckminster Fuller conceived World Game (1961) as a way to raise individual human awareness to change “human affairs” so life on Earth could thrive. His big idea called for the public internet and technology that we now have.

POWER OUR WORLD

 Vote ON [ON = Online Network] 

A.I. + human peer reviewers, scorekeepers for an online market exchange start with an existing voting app as we develop our app for this pilot of the invention (pat. pend. A.I. division of USPTO):

Responding to the 2900% increase in online meetings on ZOOM during COVID (now 300 million meetings per day), an MVP pilot for the subject invention will demonstrate a human–A.I. system to annotate online recordings for which our early prototype tests partial functionality.

A new paradigm for online media. Annotated content has a long tail as a learning resource. Like Uber, which is viable with only one car, one modular annotation node can grow to many nodes that can later be networked into a Buckminster Fuller World Game re-Vision, aligned with two concepts from mathematician Vernor Vinge of Super-Intelligence achieved via human + A.I. collaborative intelligence – a Singularity with humans in the loop.

Coalition building. Climate change links a diversity of challenges and disciplines, a few highlighted in the list of six above. POW! [Power Our World] can build coalitions for action.

Food Security starts with leaders & organizations that took part in the forum, AGU-TEX, GAIL, [free-range] private list spin-off from the Google Science FOO Alumni list, GRC, Lifeboat Foundation, Millennium Project, The Ocean Foundation, Orbital Farm, Patent Ventures, POW! [Power Our World], World Future Studies Federation to grow a diverse network of annotators & organizations sharing perspectives on Food Security.

Vote ON [ON = online network] starts with diverse groups affected by climate change, linking to action projects led by It’s Our Story, Life After Next, Tell Your Story, and others.

    Above. From 1961 until the public internet.
    Below. What we might do with the tools we have now.

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Collaborators

earthDECKS.org shows ocean plastic as a distributed supply chain that collaborative intelligence could address. earthDECKS Network (Distributed Evolving Collaborative Knowledge System) hosts essays on environmental challenges. [free-range] and [science FOO] are private lists. GAIL.global focuses on beneficial A.I., complementing GAIL.world, which hosts the neXt forum. GRC [Global Regen CoLab] is a convening platform with a calendar and slack channel. The Lifeboat Foundation focuses on existential risk. The Millennium Project focuses on global challenges. The Ocean Foundation is a fiscal sponsor with the highest rating on Charity Navigator and Platinum Level on GuideStar, working across three grand challenges: climate change, equity, and saving our ocean. Power Our World develops impact media.