{"id":2290,"date":"2014-06-12T17:34:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T21:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2014-08-02T12:33:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T16:33:29","slug":"diy-soylent-a-possible-solution-to-world-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=2290","title":{"rendered":"DIY Soylent: A Possible Solution To World Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brighterbrains.org\/articles\/entry\/diy-soylent-wants-to-feed-a-starving-school-of-indigenous-children\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Author: BrighterBrains.org &#8211; Hank Pellissier<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can DIY-Soylent cure the pangs of World Hunger? Can the alchemists of future food collect sufficient funds to fill the bellies of famished children?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powderedfoods.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Powderedfood.com<\/a> believes YES. On June 11, they launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powderedfoods.com\/#!3000000-cal-for-140-kids\/ck4h\" target=\"_blank\">crowdfunding campaign<\/a> &#8211; their weighty ambition is to ship 3 million calories to The Philippines, enough chemical chow to satiate every starving young student at San Lorenzo Ruiz Academy for 2 weeks.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"text-align: center; float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/brighterbrains.org\/images\/uploads\/thumbs\/mangyan-girls.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Recipients are the Alangyan Mangyan, an indigenous tribe in the mountain jungles of Mindoro island. Malnourished, isolated, largely illiterate, with parasitical worms, tuberculosis, diarrhea, measles, no clean water and no sewage systems, the Alangyan Mangyan are \u201cthe poorest of the poor\u201d &#8211; earning an average of $30\/month.<\/p>\n<p>San Lorenzo Ruiz Academy is a \u201creservation school\u201d that provides K-8 education to 140 children. Student family members dwell on the school property, elevating the population to 300. Mangyan subsist here on root crops, snails, rats, insects, fruit, and neighbor\u2019s rice left over on stalks after harvests. To squelch their hunger they chew betel nut, an addictive substance that stains teeth black and leads to oral cancer.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"text-align: center; float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/brighterbrains.org\/images\/author\/4675896.jpg\" alt=\"Mangyan woman chewing betel nuts\" \/><figcaption>Mangyan woman chewing betel nuts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Half of the Mangyan children were recently<a href=\"http:\/\/brighterbrains.org\/articles\/entry\/de-worm-the-mangyan-children\" target=\"_blank\"> \u201cde-wormed\u201d<\/a> via medicine provided by funds from the Brighter Brains Institute, a SFBay think-and-do tank. Brighter Brains also <a href=\"http:\/\/brighterbrains.org\/articles\/entry\/mangyan-students-need-sponsors-5-month\" target=\"_blank\">sponsors 33<\/a> of the children at the school; it pays the teacher salary and provides a daily lunch. The think-and-do tank requested DIY Soylent for the pupils.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powderedfoods.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Powderedfood.com<\/a> aims to fill the childrens\u2019s tummies with a massive 4,200 pound rescue package, blended for free by DIY-Soylent producers. Will the Mangyan children swallow the Soylent regularly, and declare it tasty? Director Sally Melendres assures Powderedfood.com that they will, in the email below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Hello Aleh,<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I\u2019m Sally from the foothills of Mount Halcon, Im very happy to know you and your great support to our \u201cMangyan\u201d children. Please accept our sincerest thanks and gratitude in advance! Your work to feed and make our children healthy is truly great!!!\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I will explain very well with our Mangyan brothers and children the good effects of Soylent in achieving good health. The whole community is one with us on our campaign towards making them a healthy community. Please be assured that they will love to take DIYSoylent daily.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>God bless you.. for your great works!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Very gratefully,<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Sally<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u2014\u2014-<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Your generosity can save the lives and health of children, and demonstrate the world-changing potential of Soylent.<i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Material costs and postage for the 2+ ton cargo is needed &#8211; Donate via the Button found at the bottom of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powderedfoods.com\/#!3000000-cal-for-140-kids\/ck4h\" target=\"_blank\">THIS PAGE<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>P.S. Are futurists, transhumanists, biohackers, and QSers &#8230; Humanitarian enough to eagerly fund this project? I\u2019m not sure\u2026 two years ago, I spearheaded a Cell Phone Drive for <a href=\"http:\/\/ieet.org\/index.php\/ieet\/africa\/P30\" target=\"_blank\">The African Futures Project <\/a>at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology (IEET.org). I anticipated collecting 1,000 mobiles from the think tank\u2019s techno-progressive membership\u2026 but\u2026 truth is\u2026 I only received 100 total, and 70 were from my close family members. The <a href=\"http:\/\/transfigurism.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mormon Transhumanist Association<\/a> (MTA) generously donated 30 Blackberries, Nokias, etc., (thank you Roger Hansen) but \u201cmainstream\u201d transhumanists? How many did they donate? ZERO. Are they Cheap? Lazy? Selfish? All three?<\/p>\n<p>IEET will help publicize this DIY-Soylent campaign (thank you Kris Notaro), and HplusMagazine.com will help promote as well (thank you, Peter Rothman) via their beautifully-designed new website. The <a href=\"http:\/\/transfigurism.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mormon Transhumanist Association<\/a> has already contributed cold, hard, valuable CA$H &#8211; thanks again Lincoln Cannon! The great new futurist site <a href=\"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wave Chronicle<\/a>, is also going to support the effort.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Material costs and postage for the 2+ ton cargo is needed &#8211; Donate via the Button found at the bottom of <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powderedfoods.com\/#!3000000-cal-for-140-kids\/ck4h\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>THIS PAGE<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: BrighterBrains.org &#8211; Hank Pellissier Can DIY-Soylent cure the pangs of World Hunger? Can the alchemists of future food collect sufficient funds to fill the bellies of famished children? Powderedfood.com believes YES. On June 11, they launched a crowdfunding campaign &#8211; their weighty ambition is to ship 3 million calories to The Philippines, enough chemical chow to satiate every starving young student at San Lorenzo Ruiz Academy for 2 weeks. Recipients are the Alangyan Mangyan, an indigenous tribe in the mountain jungles of Mindoro island. Malnourished, isolated, largely illiterate, with parasitical worms, tuberculosis, diarrhea, measles, no clean water and no sewage systems, the Alangyan Mangyan are \u201cthe poorest of the poor\u201d &#8211; earning an average of $30\/month. San Lorenzo Ruiz Academy is a \u201creservation school\u201d that provides K-8 education to 140 children. Student family members dwell on the school property, elevating the population to 300. Mangyan subsist here on root crops, snails, rats, insects, fruit, and neighbor\u2019s rice left over on stalks after harvests. To squelch their hunger they chew betel nut, an addictive substance that stains teeth black and leads to oral cancer. Mangyan woman chewing betel nuts Half of the Mangyan children were recently \u201cde-wormed\u201d via medicine provided by funds from the Brighter Brains Institute, a SFBay think-and-do tank. Brighter Brains also sponsors 33 of the children at the school; it pays the teacher salary and provides a daily lunch. The think-and-do tank requested DIY Soylent for the pupils. Powderedfood.com aims to fill the childrens\u2019s tummies with a massive 4,200 pound rescue package, blended for free by DIY-Soylent producers. Will the Mangyan children swallow the Soylent regularly, and declare it tasty? Director Sally Melendres assures Powderedfood.com that they will, in the email below: Hello Aleh, I\u2019m Sally from the foothills of Mount Halcon, Im very happy to know you and your great support to our \u201cMangyan\u201d children. Please accept our sincerest thanks and gratitude in advance! Your work to feed and make our children healthy is truly great!!!\u00a0 I will explain very well with our Mangyan brothers and children the good effects of Soylent in achieving good health. The whole community is one with us on our campaign towards making them a healthy community. Please be assured that they will love to take DIYSoylent daily.\u00a0 God bless you.. for your great works! Very gratefully, Sally \u2014\u2014- Your generosity can save the lives and health of children, and demonstrate the world-changing potential of Soylent. Material costs and postage for the 2+ ton cargo is needed &#8211; Donate via the Button found at the bottom of THIS PAGE. \u00a0 P.S. Are futurists, transhumanists, biohackers, and QSers &#8230; Humanitarian enough to eagerly fund this project? I\u2019m not sure\u2026 two years ago, I spearheaded a Cell Phone Drive for The African Futures Project at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology (IEET.org). I anticipated collecting 1,000 mobiles from the think tank\u2019s techno-progressive membership\u2026 but\u2026 truth is\u2026 I only received 100 total, and 70 were from my close family members. The Mormon Transhumanist Association (MTA) generously donated 30 Blackberries, Nokias, etc., (thank you Roger Hansen) but \u201cmainstream\u201d transhumanists? How many did they donate? ZERO. Are they Cheap? Lazy? Selfish? All three? IEET will help publicize this DIY-Soylent campaign (thank you Kris Notaro), and HplusMagazine.com will help promote as well (thank you, Peter Rothman) via their beautifully-designed new website. The Mormon Transhumanist Association has already contributed cold, hard, valuable CA$H &#8211; thanks again Lincoln Cannon! The great new futurist site Wave Chronicle, is also going to support the effort. Material costs and postage for the 2+ ton cargo is needed &#8211; Donate via the Button found at the bottom of THIS PAGE. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[447,84],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","tag-brighterbrains","tag-feature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}