The Problem: Many people across the earth don't have reliable food, clean water, safe shelter, or a working income.
The Fix: Take on these challenges, understanding that broader changes won't happen while people are hungry.
Summary: We all need food, water, shelter, and a way to make a living. Every other problem and fix on in the world is second to those needs.
To make an impact on the biggest problems we face, we first have to take care of everyone's basic needs. This link looks at some of the best ways to improve access to the basics for everyone.
Perhaps one of the most underrated environmental issues of the day is that numerous areas of the world are in danger of losing reliable access to water. One possible solution is to tap into the world's huge amounts of seawater to help avert a major crisis.
Explore Desalination
The amount and types of meat eaten by a person can very greatly alter their global footprint. Click on this sub-link to learn more about the effects of eating different kinds of meat and what you can do to reduce your footprint by making smarter food choices.
Explore Eat Less Meat
Money is on the list of basic needs, (food, water, and shelter aren't free), but there are billions in the world that do not have access to even the most basic of financial institutions, limiting how these people can interact with the rest of the world.
Explore Microfinance
If you had to guess how many species of plants you eat, how many would you guess? A few hundred? At least fifty, right? How about 12? Using so few plants creates a big risks that a widespread plant disease could hit our food supply hard. Seed banks, which store the genetic variability being destroyed by our current farming practices, are our insurance against that sort of loss.
Explore Seed Banks
The problem of getting food from where it is grown to the people who consume it is becoming an increasingly difficult and costly one, with larger portions of the world's population living in cities and larger trade networks allowing food to travel greater distances. The financial and carbon cost of getting luxury food items from around the world is huge, as is the problem of getting even the basics into dense cities in developing countries.
Explore Food Transport