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Earlier this year, a number of Maine towns passed local food sovereignty laws that allow town residents to not only grow food where they want to grow it but to also sell it the way they want to sell it and to the people they want to sell it to.
And this is one of the things my organization is working on right now, sort of a local communications infrastructure, very place-based, that allows people in the same area to connect with one another and to help each other out.
I think if we've learned anything through the TED experience, it's that there is power when we bring people together, and I think we need to bring people together at the local level as well.
Most of the medical devices used in Africa are imported, and quite often, they're not suitable for local conditions.
Two young inventors from Uganda visited an antenatal clinic at a local hospital a few years ago, when they were students in information technology.
Now we all, or a big part of us, use Gmail or one of their competitors, but these services are especially popular in totalitarian states like Iran, where dissidents use foreign services like Gmail because they know they are more trustworthy than the local services and they are encrypted over SSL connections, so the local government can't snoop on their discussions.
What's more likely, and we're seeing it today, is that data gets sent to a local manufacturing center.
This happens to be a slide of some analysis that we were doing about the power of RISC microprocessors versus the power of local area networks.
Sorel cement was originally invented in 1867, and it's the beautiful chemical marriage of magnesium oxide and local sand, which they can now use to print solid stone walls.
And I went through the drive-through of a local coffee shop.
Which is why I prefer the Richard Wilk analogy of globalizing the local and localizing the global.
Life necessitates a universal world, however, we believe in the security of having a local identity.
In Nigeria, open-source SMS tools are being used by the Red Cross community workers to gather information from the local community in an attempt to better understand and mitigate the prevalence of malaria.
She grew up at a time when Confucianism was the social norm and the local mandarin was the person who mattered.
Well after two years, I've come to the conclusion that, especially local government, is about opossums.
WG: We need to each begin by learning in our own local communities, bridging the gaps between our own hearts and minds to become racially literate.
Get the community to add local depth, global perspective, local knowledge.
So with loads of funding from the Federal Government and the local Health Service, we introduced a thing at John Hunter called Respecting Patient Choices.
These were small things, people making applications to keep track of their local basketball team scores or to organize their research or to teach people about classical music or to calculate weird astronomical dates.
So what we have to do, I think, is invent a new kind of agriculture that blends the best ideas of commercial agriculture and the green revolution with the best ideas of organic farming and local food and the best ideas of environmental conservation, not to have them fighting each other but to have them collaborating together to form a new kind of agriculture, something I call "terraculture," or farming for a whole planet.
She and her young kids would go to the local jeans factory and collect scraps of denim.
If you want to do anything new in surgery, you have to get a license from your local Research & Ethics.
Now Shivdutt was visiting the local land registry office in Uttar Pradesh, and he discovered that official records were listing him as dead.
According to the Yadav family, the local court has been scheduling a case review since 2001, but a judge has never appeared.
It also monitors the Internet and instructs local media on how to handle any potentially controversial issues, including Tibet, ethnic minorities, Human Rights, religion, democracy movements and terrorism.
Tensions between these two families date back to 1913 when there was a dispute over local political power.
This isn't $10,000, it's the local currency.
But that blackout risk disappears, and all of the other risks are best managed, with distributed renewables organized into local micro-grids that normally interconnect, but can stand alone at need.
We humans are inventing a new fire, not dug from below, but flowing from above; not scarce, but bountiful; not local, but everywhere; not transient, but permanent; not costly, but free.
They would be, like, your local dentist or something.
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