Create a movement where organizations of all types – restaurants, supermarkets, schools, hospitals, companies, etc. – pledge to source 10% of their food from local suppliers.

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It wasn't so long ago that most schools had a classroom kitchen as part of a "Home Economics" or nutritional sciences program. Unfortunately, these were often used to bake cakes, cookies, and other foods with low nutritional value. Even worse, many of these kitchens were removed from our schools in the 80s and 90s in favor of computer labs and other programs. Let's bring school kitchens back!

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A collaborative effort amongst government, local business, community and parents, Grow2Grow incorporates farming into public school vocational curricula, aiming to teach urban youth new skills while also bringing nature back into the civic landscape.

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Turning schools into farms

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Enterprising Schools, an initiative of Gray Matters Capital Foundation, is sponsoring this challenge, focused on increasing the access of low-cost and appropriate learning tools for affordable private schools in India and worldwide. The submissions will contribute to the development of a catalogue of existing tools and would provide inspirational concepts to entrepreneurs who will be encouraged to take them forward and build businesses to provide affordable private schools with much-needed tools and materials. The purpose of this engagement is to provide access to quality learning tools and materials to affordable private schools first in India, and secondarily, worldwide.

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Giving city schools a chance to not just be less bad to actually be better than suburban schools requires a new way of thinking about what makes a great school and new standards to measure that.

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Student social businesses: 1) help raise education funds, 2) promote learning by doing, building entrepreneurial skills, & 3) benefit the community, while raising student social awareness. Video below profiles some of these efforts in Africa.

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Community Restaurant are solutions for people looking for a space to share with friends or colleagues, who are aware of the waste in energy and food produced by cooking at home for one person, and who are sensitive to environmental issues like food distribution. If you want to help local food production and access convenient food, you will be fan of the community Restaurant near you.

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