I had an idea to get more books into schools and communities about four years ago, but I was naive enough to let people convince me that it wasn’t a good idea and that it wouldn’t make a difference.  I think there should be more material available related to creativity/dreaming, art/science, personal finance, healthy living/eating, and religions (all of them).  I’m particularly passionate about the subject of food — which is directly related to obesity and the environment.

I saw the girl who started http://www.feedprojects.org/ last Friday and she got the wheels in my head turning again.  I’m sure there are more than 100 reasons why it won’t work and why it’s a bad idea, but I’m not really interested in any of those.  I’m interested in the one or two reasons why it’s a good idea.

Software and websites aren’t satisfying my urge to make a positive difference.  There are a billion people in the world who are starving and another billion who are obese. AND, I recently learned that the US agriculture business (the 32 million animals we kill per day for food) causes way more CO2 emissions than our automobile industry does.  I’ve been mostly vegan for a while now, but that’s even more motivation to not eat meat.

So, I’d like to try to raise money and work with publishers to distribute books (physically and digitally) to schools and communities of all sorts — from the high income to low income — in and outside of the U.S.  I would love to travel and speak on the subjects as well, encouraging reading and self education.  I’m thinking of books like The Magic of Believing, Eat to Live, Think and Grow Rich, and Tao Te Ching.

I just finished reading Gristle, a book that is full of facts about factory farms and food safety.  The facts are alarming and it’s mind blowing that this information is not more well known.