some topics to blog about

This post is simply to remind myself of some topics to blog about in the future. If you have any suggestions, feel free to leave a comment.

Healthy food vs healthy eating
Can a restaurant provide delicious food at an affordable price that is just as if not more healthy than fresh food cooked at home?
Transporation phases for improvement: heads up displays with GPS graphics showing lane markers, signals, construction and direction signs; speedometer with light indicating the posted speed limit of the area driving through; recommended speed signs for highway traffic flow to maximize smooth traffic at congestion times; driverless cars that operate as taxis with door to door service
How does designing new developments using traditional grid street designs, downtown type building arrangements, and neighborhood scaled public ammenities with vertically integrated and mixed uses help with solving our housing, transportation, and employment needs as an area expands or adds population? Can this work in a typically suburban setting or surrounding a CBD?
The current economy is our economy. We should not be expecting to return to the economy of 2005-2007 that was based on false premises of money supply, greed, and lack of vision.
Van Buren from I-17 to Mill Ave can be the neighborhood level link with street cars that can be the center of the creative class for the chromosome generations; The Discovery Triangle, access to all forms of transportation, between 3 most important downtowns and employment/education/entertainment areas of the valley, varied housing options, and plenty of room for redevelopment.
If transportation and distributor costs are a significant portion of the cost of fresh food, why is local food almost always more expensive?
What options are there for getting raw fresh foods that have not had their enzymes or benficial living organisms destroyed before we get them to our kitchen?
Modeling economic development taking into account building costs and designs, transportation options, employment and income levels, housing types, service and store front offerings, public spaces and amenities.
The true cost of greenfield development and the impacts to neighborhoods of aging infrastructure.
What would a healing and health maintenance system look like with insurance only for HID (Hospitatlization, Injury, Disease) issues and cash basis for all other health maintenance needs?
How can a national HID insurance system positively impact the health of the citizens, create vibrant and recession resistant communities, and still maintain our freedom while cutting down the cost of healthcare overall?
How can the removal of subsidies reduce our tax burden, restore a market based system, and restore the bell curve of the income/wealth distribution in the US?
Charter school: FOOD: for thought, for mind, body, spirit, and for transformation. A school for 13-18 year olds where all subjects are integrated with food and all the issues surrounding it as the basis for the curriculum.
What if we removed subsidies for just 3 areas: energy, transportation, and food? Would clean renewable energy replace carbon/non-renewable based energy? Would our mobility options improve while allowing us the freedom to move more effectively within our local communities? What if the stores had 1/3 of the floor space for minimally processed foods from local producers with the remaining 2/3 providing fresh, whole foods from other local producers, and only minimally supplemented by distant supplies?
How can a CSA neighborhood store work to provide local producers with a regular outlet and the proprietor with minimal invetory costs for food, housewares, clothing, and other goods?
Is a local food market, cafe, and light industrial food processor a good mix for an infill city block with pedestrian friendly streets? What other light industrial/commercial businesses produce goods with a high employment income to land and building ratio and storefront presence be included in a walkable, pedestrian oriented neighborhood?
How would a neighborhood of light industrial producers with storefronts on pedestrian friendly streets overlapped with truck friendly streets look and feel?
How can we create a useable Municipal General Plan be responsive to current economic and citizen needs while still maintaining a vision and relevancy?
Should all new transportation infrastructure investments meet minimal economic development opportunity criteria?
How can we narrow our streets and still make them carry the traffic that we load of them? Can they be multimodal in the same corridor?
How do the laws and policies of trees, plants, and water impact the comfort and design of our road infrastructure?
What could policies allowing ADUs in existing neighborhoods do for affordability, tax basis, values, design and structure quality, and historic preservation?
What are some temporary solution (<15 years) for vacant infill urban lots that can be relocated to nearby neighborhoods when a permanent solution becomes viable? Investment in materials, design, and construction are recoverd and minimal loss for site specific improvements.
What would a local material recycling system look like where 50% or more of our net waste were recaptured, recycled, repurposed, reprocessed, or reused locally? Is there enough demand for paper products to produce it all from locally recycled paper?
What could a distributed, clean renewable energy system with local backup/storage units supplemented by grid sources look like on a neighborhood scale?
Can a bank be profitable by making money on deposits, loans, local investments, and small margin fees?
How would a community that implemented local investing as the third "local" leg work? How would it fair in economically challenging times?
Eco: why do we use it to refer to "ecology" but use "environment", but we don't think "econom(y/ics)" even though it starts with eco and we use that term more readily?

Looks like I've got plenty to be busy with ;-)