Rough Script:
Hi All,
Sorry, this is late. I had Jury Duty for most of the week.
Everything I re-wrote/edited is in Italics and bolded.
I also deleated a few things.
Please feel free to use whatever you'd like.
Cheers,
Divine
Script:
Cell 1: My name is Mario Gabiati, I'd like to share an idea that I believe will help us feed the 9 billion and growing number of people across this globe.
Cell 2: (we were planning to show some poorly producing community garden plots here as b-roll while I talked more about the program). Feeding 9 billion people on 100% industrialized agriculture is impossible and unsustainable, but that is the path the global agricultural industry has been on until recently, with studies showing that more and more people are turning to home gardening as a way to get fresher, more nutritious foods in their diets. In the U.S., the popularity of community and home gardening has increased over 200% since 2008 (link), and now over a third (Where does this statistic come from? Please cite your data) of US households are growing home-use vegetable gardens. Now with the growing trends of home-use vegetable gardens, how can we feed the 9 billion plus people across the globe? By learning to feed one. For me, this issue hits home as I have my own home-use vegetable garden and have always had trouble sustaining vegetable growth. I'd always wonder if I was using the right soil, if my vegetables had enough water or if the soil was receiving enough sunlight. Basically, I needed help or my vegetable garden wouldn't survive. I began looking for monitoring devices that would analyze the data I needed from my garden and be easily accessible when I needed it, say to buy the next batch of garden soil. Unfortunately, everything I found sold in stores or an Amazon was too expensive, ranging anywhere from 50-100 dollars! Imagine, however, if one could monitor these home-use vegetable and community gardens with nothing more than a $5 sensor and a smartphone?
Cell 3: (M: now that I'm writing this out, we may want to change the order - the intent was to briefly touch on the world-wide implications of this technology, and our desire to bring it to nations where home gardening may mean the difference between surviving and starving. D: This isn't a bad idea I've kept it in because of the way I structred the above. ). That very low price to build our sensor means affordable technology in building sustainable home-use vegetable and community gardens in food deserts across the US and Western & Eastern Europe. This technology could also be brought to places where growing one's own food means the difference between survival or starvation; places like Northern India and China, areas of the world where agriculture is the backbone of the economy and a high percentage of the population use cell phones.
Cell 4: (this will be b-roll of us installing the prototypes at East Bay Vivarium on Friday and/or lush community garden plots with our sensors in them). Incredibly easy to install, just activates and place - already I'm receiving real-time data.
Cell 5: (Info-graphic - yes!). This technology requires no configuration, it simply begins serving data as soon as it's installed, giving an individual real-time access to their garden's data. Eventually, with the permission of each sensor's owner, our team would aggregate all the data received from every available and active sensor to begin building comprehensive micro-climate maps that give suggestions on the types of plants and vegetables that grow best in each sensor's specific region.
Cell 6: (closure, a reiteration of the feeding 9 billion theme) Feeding 9 billion people isn't such a huge problem when it begins with learning to feed one. Would you buy a sensor for $10 if you knew a sensor just like yours would be given to a family in India, Yemen or Rwanda? (I picked countries that have a high % of their population that usages cell-phone, but also have a high agricultural backbone would actually use the technology) Please visit our website below to learn more!