Dear All, Are there any urban agriculture project partnerships with "humanities centers" across the nation, including Homi Bhabha's Mahindra financed Humanities Center at Harvard? I have noticed more science and engineering folks attracted to Milwaukee/Chicago area urban agriculture/aqauaponics experiments than folks from the traditional humanities programs. But the best of the humanities community seem amenable to exploring collaborations, especially through places like the Harvard Center, whose mission is to "foster collaborations between the humanities, social sciences, and sciences in the belief that the humanities make a unique contribution in establishing -- through interpretation and conversation -- *communities of interest and climates of opinion*."
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/about I hope we might inspire places like Bhabha et al's Humanities Center to advance our "community of interest" and contribute to a climate of opinion more comprehending of the Great Work that awaiting us. http://www.thomasberry.org/Essays/AwakeningToOurRoleInTheGreatWork.html) I'm told that Bhabha was a friend of Obama through their work at the University of Chicago. We might win a place in the Obama Chicago Presidential Library for an urban agriculture and community/school gardening wing, with the help not just of the First Lady, but also an old friend of our young President. And an Indian engineer advancing urban agriculture, aquaponics, and appropriate rural technologies for sustainability(ARTS), Dr. Subra Mukherjee, is about to open Sweet Water Foundation digitally linked aquaponics center at University of Mumbia(Bombay), Homi Bhabha's home town. * http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/IndoAmericanAquaponicsInstitute/HomePage * India is poised to join in the good food (r)Evolution's urban agriculture aspect, marrying their organic farm traditions with their digital revolution resources. Here's a note on reasons why Dr. Mukherjee's Indo American Aquaponics Institute might find support from humanities centers like Dr. Bhabha's. Mahindra gives $10M for *Humanities Center* | *Harvard* Gazette<http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/10/anand-mahindra-gives-10m-for-humanities-center/> news.*harvard*.edu/.../anand-mahindra-gives-10m-for-*humanities*-*center*/ Oct 4, 2010 – The newly renamed Mahindra *Humanities Center at Harvard* is housed *...* unique interdisciplinary collaborations led by center *director * Homi Bhabha -- James J. Godsil, ABD, co-founder Sweet Water Organics, Sweet Water Foundation, Indo American Aquaponics Institute *http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Godsil/JamesGodsil** **<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/SweetWaterOrganicsSweetWaterFoundation> * -- James J. Godsil, ABD, co-founder Sweet Water Organics, Sweet Water Foundation, Indo American Aquaponics Institute *http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Godsil/JamesGodsil** **<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/SweetWaterOrganicsSweetWaterFoundation> * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20130630/839744d6/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
