New Year New Ideas

Hi. 2009 is going to be a really great year. The Information Age and its growing collective of networks is poised to conceive of creative solutions to several of the varying aspects of THE REALLY BIG MESS WE'RE ALL IN. To "Work on stuff that matters" was the prescription from Tim O'Reilly in his 'Thoughts on the Financial Crisis' message. This is about applying our creative resources toward real things because we cannot afford to be bloated Narcissists amusing ourselves to death.

The Trojan Horseradish is my New Year's Resolution. It is a place to explore global issues of food, chemistry, hunger, ecology, agriculture and economics. A major theme will be the rethinking of networks from which we draw our nutrition -- which spans the globe and all spheres of ecology AND economics. Let's look at food production, distribution and processing. Let's look at hunger and dietary diseases. Let's share recipes and techniques for surviving the aforementioned MESS. But let's do it in good taste with style and finesse.

My goal here is to hunt data and gather ideas, pick them and prep them, cook them down and serve a smorgasbord of bites that are of value to the new creative producer/consumer.