Nourish the planet presentation 111713

Nourish the Planet:
Enabling People to Teach
the World to Feed Itself!
Dr. Wayne Dorband
Center for Ecolonomic Excellence and Development (CEED)
www.nourishtheplanet.com

text your email to 303-872-4338 for slides and audio

Relax, Sit Back, Listen and Get Inspired!

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Don’t worry about taking detailed notes.

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I want to stimulate you to think , react and maybe even get excited about doing something!

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You’re going to feel like you are getting fed through a fire hose.

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I’m told I talk at around 120 mph with gusts up to 200 mph.



Get Ready for a Wild Ride
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SO JUST SIT BACK AND LISTEN

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I will send you all my slides and the audio from my presentation.

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Text your email address to 303872-4338

Do It Now!


Several Titles I Thought About for This
Talk
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Why Should I Care About Teaching People to Feed Themselves? And, if It is
Important, What Can I Do about It?

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We Already Know How to Feed Ourselves – Right?

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If You Give a Man a Fish You Feed Him for a Day, if You Teach Him to Fish You
Feed Him for a Lifetime!



So Who Am I and Why Should you Listen
to Me?
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Sixty-One Years Old

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Creation of God

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Follower of Jesus

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Husband of almost 32 Years to the Amazing Deb



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Father of four adult children and four awesome grandkids

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Lover of the Planet

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Passionate Educator



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Over Competitive and Over-Achieving Jock

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Anal Career Scientist

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Serial Entrepreneur

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Farmer and Renaissance Man



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Growing Up in the High Desert North of Los Angeles



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High School Switch – move to the Beach



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College – Probably way too many years, but I liked it!



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Teaching and Professorship



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Entrepreneurship – Selling Lemonade to the Kids with Lemonade Stands. Deb says “He’s
chronically unemployable.”



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Farmer/rancher, Lover of all things God has made!



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Competitor/jock/coach – Tennis, Cycling, Basketball, Climbing, Dogs, Running, Climbing,
Pickleball (yes, it’s a sport), etc.



Today – Our Passion to Make the Planet
Better!
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Mountain Sky Group succeeded by Dorband & Associates (D&A)
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Environmental Consulting – Eliminating risk on contaminated properties
www.dorbandassociates.com

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Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) –Paradigm shifting new way to build an
environmental team www.environmentalprofessionalsnetwork.com

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Balanced Life Team (BLT) – Membership network for anyone interested in living a
more balanced life based on the principals of a four-legged stool involving physical,
mental, emotional/spiritual and financial factors www.balancedlifeteam.com



Better!
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The Institute of Ecolonomics (IOE)
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The synergy between Ecology and Economy

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501C3 Non-profit founded by the late actor/environmentalist Dennis Weaver

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Our 20th anniversary this year



Better!
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Dennis used to say, in his cowboy sort of way –

“We’ve spent billions of dollars and
thousands of years screwing the
planet up, now we need to show
people how they can make a little
money making it better.”



Better!
Dennis

was focused on alternative energy
and transportation:



Better!
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Our focus because of my life-passion is sustainable living and specifically sustainable
agriculture.



Better!
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Nourish the Planet, L3C (NTP) and the Center for Ecolonomic Excellence and
Development (CEED)



Enabling People to Teach Others to Feed
Themselves
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Mission of NTP and CEED

“To Enable One Million

Ecopreneurs by 2016 to
Teach the World to Feed
Itself



Themselves
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How are we reaching this ambitious goal?

ONE ECOPRENEUR AT A TIME!!
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We are primarily Researchers and Doer/Teachers

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What is a Doer/Teacher?
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Not your typical High School or College Teacher who has never done what they are
teaching

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We believe strongly you cannot teach something you have never successfully done.

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So because we are working with many new or “infant” technologies, we need to
first work with them (“do” them) before we can teach about them



Themselves
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Most of what we are wanting to teach involves farming (in the soil or in the
water – terrestrial or aquatic) so we believe we need to be successfully using
these farming methods and technologies ourselves.

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If what we are teaching involves home production and personal use then we
strongly feel we need to have successfully implemented the technology
ourselves.

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If what we are teaching involves commercial production then we believe we
should PROFITABLY and sustainably have operated the program ourselves.



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CEED currently includes two Global Locations on three campuses:
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Two Northern Colorado Campuses
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Warehouse/Greenhouse indoor agriculture Center – “the Warehouse”



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CEED currently includes two Global Locations on three campuses:
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Two Northern Colorado Campuses
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Small acreage foothills farm – Mountain Sky Ranch



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CEED (cont.)
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Tropical Region Farm – Yasica Mountain Center, the Dominican Republic

www.yasicamountain.com



NTP and CEED Initiatives
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Best of the Best
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A “Business Accelerator” focusing on sustainable agriculture development technologies.

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Resident program for exceptional ecopreneurs to jump-start their businesses.

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We provide funding, R&D space and equipment, training, and mentoring

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We get a ownership position in the company



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Hope for the Hopeless
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The “teach a man to fish” model with elements copied from Teach for America and
Enlace.



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Hope for the Hopeless – Camp Huapaca, Madera Mexico



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Green Hackerspace – the Warehouse, Northern Colorado
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“A place to hangout with people you like and build things you want to build”

www.greenhackerspace.com


CEED Research, Development and
Prototype Projects
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Super-intensive recirculating aquaculture – salt water, marine shrimp in CO



Prototype Projects
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Aquaponics – Ft. MacMurray, Alberta Canada “Food in a Box”



Prototype Projects
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Sustainable Indoor Agriculture – Akron Indoor Sustainable Agriculture, CO



Prototype Projects
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Urban Farming – Berthoud Urban Farm at Grace Place



Prototype Projects
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Endangered Aquatic Species Banking – coral, CO



Prototype Projects
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Small Acreage Sustainable Farming – Mountain Sky Ranch, Agriburbia



Prototype Projects
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Sustainable Livestock Nutrition – Microgreens (Fodder)

www.sustainablelivestocknutrition.com



Prototype Projects
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Automation and Robotics



Why Should You Learn How to Feed
Yourself?
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By 2030 world population will be over 9 billion and it is projected that food
will be a critical resource even in wealthy areas of the world, like the US.

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Traditional industrial agriculture is rapidly depleting limiting resources like
Phosphorous, which as they say “God ain’t makin any more”.

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The average distance food comes from today in the US is 1500 miles.

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Food quality has become so poor that many significant health issues can be
directly related to processed and modified foods you eat.



Why Should You Learn How to Feed
Yourself?
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Most Americans are over-weight, due in a large part to the poor quality of
their diets.

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Many Americans under 30 do not even know where their food comes from.

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Working with living things has been closely tied to improved quality of life,
greater happiness, and a better ability to favorably interact with those
around you.

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“getting your hands dirty” on a regular basis is being closely linked to
improved immune system performance, thus more disease resistance.



What are we doing that you can learn
from or do with us?
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Come and take a tour of one of our two Northern Colorado campuses. We
charge a nominal fee of $5 per adult (kids are free) to help offset our time.

Go to www.talkwithwayne.com or call 303-495-3705 to book



from or do with us?
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We have ongoing volunteer and intern opportunities

Call 303-495-3705 or email waynedorband@gmail.com



from or do with us?
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Become a member of one of our virtual (internet based) sustainable living
and/or environmental learning opportunities.

Again, Text your email address to 303-872-4338 to get information.


from or do with us?
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Enroll in one of our specialized live hands-on educational programs where you
can gain practical knowledge and skills regarding sustainable agricultural
production.

We will be teaching a 5 day sustainable indoor agriculture Class in January, 2014
Call 303-495-3705 or email waynedorband@gmail.com for more info.


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