Nathan, Lyndsay, and Joel: GOOD Ideas/Challenges

I. Food & Kids - How do you get kids to eat healthier by their own accord?

II. Waste - How can we reduce food waste in Portland?

III. Willamette River - The Willamette River is now safe to swim in, but it has not been able to shed the “yuck” factor. How do you change Portlanders relationship to the Willamette so that it becomes an integral component of the the civic culture, and a source of local pride?

IV. Cultural Cohesiveness - How do you better integrate immigrants into the larger fabric of Portland?

V. Homeless - How can you assist homeless people to reenter society in an easier, simpler and more harmonious way?

VI. The Landscape of Urban Ecology - How do we preserve, maintain and reintegrate nature into the larger urban ecosystem?

VII.  Global City, Global Citizens, Global Knowledge, Global Communication - Portland aspires to be a global, world-class city. This requires global citizens; therefore, how do we help develop citizens that “think globally, act locally,” sophisticated yet also committed to locality? This also requires open networks of communication and knowledge: how can the city enable citizens to be able to transcend the hyperspecialization of our cities into something that resembles a “crowdsourced city?”