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Reservations are cut up into 160-acre sections, and distributed to individual Indians with the surplus disposed of.
Most of the surplus land and many of the plots within reservation boundaries are now in the hands of white ranchers.
I moved there primarily to be part of a learning environment that validated the way that I knew that kids learned, and that really wanted to investigate what was possible when you are willing to let go of some of the paradigms of the past, of information scarcity when my grandmother was in school and when my father was in school and even when I was in school, and to a moment when we have information surplus.
Our cities, I would put to you, are stockpiles of these surplus capacities.
A lot of our surplus wealth goes to museums, etc.
And when they produce their crops, they sell the surplus on marketplaces.
Any dot above that line, and you'll quickly notice that that includes most countries in the world, represents unnecessary surplus, and is likely to reflect levels of waste in each country.
As a country gets richer, it invests more and more in getting more and more surplus into its shops and restaurants, and as you can see, most European and North American countries fall between 150 and 200 percent of the nutritional requirements of their populations.
So I classify the people into three: uneducated, little educated, surplus educated.
Surplus educated, what are you going to do for the society?
What also happened that year is in the areas where there were good rains, and where farmers had previously produced surplus grain, farmers had decided to withdraw from the fertilizer market, not use fertilizer and actually had dropped their use of fertilizer by 27 percent.
There we would explore massive piles of surplus electronics, and for a few bucks bring home treasures like Norden bombsights and parts from the first IBM tube-based computers.
We need to help them to find their own role models, and give them the confidence to believe in themselves and to believe that anything is possible, and just as my grandpa did when he took me shopping for surplus, and just as my parents did when they took me to science museums, we need to encourage them to find their own path, even if it's very different from our own.
He started selling surplus parts, kits, to schools and stuff.
Blue indicates a labor surplus, red indicates a labor shortfall, and gray are those countries which are borderline.
So by 2020, we still see a labor surplus in some countries, like Italy, France, the U.S., but this picture will change dramatically by 2030.
We de-averaged them and broke them down into different skill levels, and what we found were even higher shortfalls for high-skilled people and a partial surplus for low-skilled workers.
One: You loan 200 dollars to each of 500 banana farmers allowing them to dry their surplus bananas and fetch 15 percent more revenue at the local market.
Because of this lack of hard evidence, there's been a surplus of speculation over the years.
With cities now producing surplus food, as well as tools, crafts, and other goods, there was now the possibility of commerce and interaction over longer distances.
What can you do with all this surplus?
The enclosures made farming more efficient, and created a labor surplus that laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution.
Until now, countries with calorie deficits have been able to meet these deficits by importing from surplus regions.
By surplus regions, I'm talking about North America, South America and Europe.
Nothing has happened because those arguments ask the surplus regions to change their behavior on behalf of deficit regions.
I've been meeting with city council members and city organizers across the US and telling them that technology indeed does have the power to connect businesses with surplus food to people in need, and explaining to them what a meal can actually mean to a family.
And, of course, one needs the mindset to be wanting to give away what you have as a surplus.
So, basically, the production surplus of these guys down there is enough to maintain this biomass that is not moving.
And ask yourself, what problem have you solved, ever, that was worth solving where you knew all of the given information in advance; where you didn't have a surplus of information and you had to filter it out, or you didn't have sufficient information and had to go find some.
I call it cognitive surplus.
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