cities so the world’s population is
continuing to increase here after year
according to the United Nations 9.6
billion people on half of this earth by
2050 and sixty-six percent of those
people will live in urban areas rather
than world settlements in the United
States already the richest country in
the world food deserts as you can see
here already prevalent USDA defines food
deserts as areas where it’s difficult to
buy affordable freshman and as you can
see here it’s all across the country in
urban and rural areas and it’s only
going to continue as climate change goes
up and it’s going to lead to a larger as
we said 10 billion people sixty-six
percent cities a more compressed larger
and unhealthier population less fresh
food and unless levels accomplished H so
what is there to do how can we fix this
when we’re just going to kill yourselves
by having more people well the good news
is they’re already hired
urban agriculture urban farming ideas
right now I hadn’t proven successful in
offsetting cities there’s examples of
everywhere it’s happening already
there’s just not really getting the
investment that they need at this point
like this is a city hall in saga they
have a green roof on there so they can
grow food on their roof it lowers the
emissions of the building it makes it
less needed for air conditioning and
heat because plants on the roof keep the
buildings like this have resource DIY
gardening which provides food for the
local population and it also helps to
reduce our pensions there’s also easier
ways than ever to grow foods and small
places for cheap you can grow vegetables
just out of scraps of your old
vegetables so all you need is garden
scraps sub water a charge on some
sunlight you can grow right in you can
anywhere that you want to do it whether
it’s a in an alley or in your windowsill
almost all the types of fruits and
vegetables in some ways you reformed can
be adapted to grow right in your kitchen
the only issue with all this is so all
the technology and we know how we can do
this but it’s not happening right we’re
not investing in it and people aren’t
doing this in cities as they grow so how
can we change that okay with these
skills and adaptations into the fabric
of society and our big idea is through
our youth and through schools good guess
kitchen come to so great schools help to
minimize environmental impact and also
teach students to live healthy lives and
build stronger sense of communities you
get stronger communities you get
students with more more Skills more
marketable skills in the workplace after
school and so you’re not only helping
the community just by these students
being able to farm from selves and know
how to grow their own food in the place
that they live we’re also helping me
students by giving them a different way
to learn outside the classroom I know
from experience like volunteering in
high schools when you just give students
a different way to learn something even
as a history project that they don’t
have to do usually or a debate team like
they’re going to learn more and be more
engaged other things just because
there’s something keeping their interest
studies in the UK have actually shown
that in schools that hot gardening
programs the students are actually were
self-aware of their community and treat
the community better with respect and
better levels of environmental health
care so let’s rafidi less sort of damage
the environment before respecting and
so that seems to answer both for
questions so far what we’ve said is
world’s going in the wrong direction in
terms of population climate change when
we know how to fight against that we
don’t we can do that through farming in
every neighborhood not just in rural
farms out in the Midwest we are going to
strengthen our communities if we teach
you skills of children because as we
said 2015 we’re gonna have 10 billion
people growth 2050 is when students who
are in elementary most schools now are
going to be people running the country
legislating budgets so not only do we
have environmentally a health-conscious
students you can potentially decrease
our health care costs we can reduce
carbon emissions we can increase food
production and we can potentially create
self-sustaining schools that supply
their own healthy fresh booty to school
lunch programs and potentially
self-sustaining magazine in which food
production for the city is growing in
the school locally fresh produce so in
conclusion won’t be coming soon is the
waste sustained cities in the future and
the same or urban populations is through
climate change are on urban agriculture
green roofs and how do we do that by
teaching kids about it right now makes
for better schools better cities strong
communities [Applause]