When visiting my sister at the Island School I was struck by how nothing, absolutely nothing goes to waste. Every system is set up with ecology in mind from cleaning up in the kitchen, to the collection of human waste, composting, aquaculture - growing their own fish in a underwater dome, agriculture - growing their own food in their vegetable garden, bicycles for transportation, no heating or cooling devices - just smart architecture.
The school is set up with all the classes being hands on learning and tied to preservation and restoration. My sisters human ecology class team project went into the settlements and documented the effect of television on the Bahamian youth culture. Her archeology class, identified sites on the island of early settlements tagging and documenting artifacts. Math class, was celestial navigation, learning how to read the stars and find your way home by using trigonometry and geometry.
Science was everywhere. One team tagged sharks and followed their population. Another team experimented with human waste to use as a fertilizer for the garden and capture the methane gas for heating the kitchen stoves, another group raised cobia in a underwater huge sphere, while another group did something similar to what John McMillin did in Ethiopia in 1989 and is doing now in Honduras. This group is raising tilapia - after identifying it as a very fast growing fish. This group is working closely with the Cape Eleuthera Institute, a graduate level program associated with the Island School. They are doing pieces of McMilin's work, but have not as yet recreated his fully integrated aquaculture/agriculture system that I call "Teach A Man To Raise A Fish."
Once I have more information on this blog - I intend to share it with the Island School and the Cape Eleuthera Institute. My postings have been slowed down because John McMillin is busy saving lives in Honduras right now, and rather focus on that then take the time to share information via the web or with me. I know he wants to, but he is in an emergency situation and that takes priority. The information is coming slow, but it is coming through the help our friends the Newcomb's, who introduced me to John last summer.
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