Global Warming and World Hunger

Well these were the topics for our Design Challenge - II which happened today and brings yet another busy week to end. There were 10 teams like earlier Design Challenge and each of us were suppose to take either on Global Warming or World Hunger problem and come up with a systems approach to how to solve them. Obviously they did not expect us to solve these problems in two weeks but to see how we approach a complex system. We picked World Nutrition topic and presented an idea of floating a company which will use system dynamics to make models and give region/case specific solution to Non Government and government organizations so that they will be able to get more value for their efforts. Other teams had great ideas - Like for Global warming we heard ideas of using algae which absorbs CO2 and converts it to BioFuel, space elevator (future), Government policy modifications and other innovative ones and for World Nutrition (Obesity and Malnutrition) we had ideas like Kiwi Cards where you get points for eating at healthy places which can be converted to miles and gift cards, other ideas were genetically engineered crops/animals, lot of graphs and statistics........Interesting was that even after doing research for about two weeks and getting to know lot of stuff still there were new approaches and ideas to be learned from other teams. 7 teams presented solution/approach to curb world hunger and Obesity and none were the same all teams had different solution/approach.
Idea I guess is to enhance the thought process, these Design Challenges are there to start system thinking in our minds...is it working? I'll let you know as the time goes by....:-)
AD.