Crystal Ramm & Ryan Broker
Rural Futures Institute
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05/01/2017
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Highlighting the next generation of leadership in Ord, Nebraska
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- [00:00:04.302]It is an insect.
- [00:00:06.153]It's a bug.
- [00:00:07.165]It's a bug with six legs.
- [00:00:09.205]We have a lot of really smart kids here.
- [00:00:12.096]How many legs do we have?
- [00:00:12.995]Two.
- [00:00:14.427]Our damselfly have what?
- [00:00:17.030]So you can kind of see through them.
- [00:00:20.229]Science has always fascinated me.
- [00:00:22.655]It's estimated at, I think, we would live maybe
- [00:00:28.022]I think it's like maybe two weeks to a month without insects
- [00:00:31.507]when it comes to food, decomposition,
- [00:00:34.364]many other things they do for us.
- [00:00:36.444]A lot of the times when we hear about insects
- [00:00:39.465]and other anthropoids it's in a negative light.
- [00:00:41.677]When really, it's only one percent of
- [00:00:44.014]insects that really do damage
- [00:00:45.848]and when they do do damage,
- [00:00:47.037]it's from a human perspective.
- [00:00:52.521]The United States and Europe are the
- [00:00:53.888]only countries that don't utilize insects
- [00:00:56.231]as a food every single day on the menu.
- [00:01:00.311]The past couple days have been
- [00:01:02.019]playing around with cricket flour
- [00:01:03.721]just from the perspective of water conservation.
- [00:01:08.900]For one pound of cricket flour,
- [00:01:11.071]it takes one gallon of water, as compared to beef.
- [00:01:15.547]It takes over 2,500 gallons of water to produce
- [00:01:19.125]so they're really efficient at turning mass into energy.
- [00:01:29.336]I grew up in Chicago, born in Illinois.
- [00:01:32.096]My work with my current employer,
- [00:01:34.366]U.S. Senator Ben Sasse,
- [00:01:35.786]brought me into word on several occasions
- [00:01:38.322]and just through the fortune of good luck and good timing,
- [00:01:42.962]I ended up meeting, my now fiancee, Dr.Ramm
- [00:01:46.005]and the invitation to start a life here with her
- [00:01:48.325]was one that I was really happy to take.
- [00:01:53.072]Like when I got here,
- [00:01:54.274]I was just really inspired by Valley County
- [00:01:56.314]and I have been for a long time before I even
- [00:01:58.053]moved here because of the progressive thought here.
- [00:02:02.153]That's kinda what I love about entomology,
- [00:02:03.872]is that there's always a conversation to be had.
- [00:02:06.320]There's always something to learn.
- [00:02:08.083]There's always something new.
- [00:02:12.031]You really have an opportunity
- [00:02:13.763]to be a part of what rural needs.
- [00:02:16.589]That young, rural leader
- [00:02:19.293]in a place like Ord, I think
- [00:02:21.779]both our economic development director,
- [00:02:24.392]our chamber of commerce director,
- [00:02:25.901]are some of the finest entrepreneurs I've ever met
- [00:02:28.651]not just in this central Nebraska area
- [00:02:30.763]but across the country,
- [00:02:32.261]are in positions of great import, of great influence here.
- [00:02:42.446]The RFI and CYN offer up to news
- [00:02:45.452]for networking and engagement.
- [00:02:47.693]They move well passed those that
- [00:02:49.272]I think most people are accustomed to.
- [00:02:51.083]Sort of in a professional association
- [00:02:53.861]standpoint that cross disciplinary conversation
- [00:02:57.251]with thought leaders as something that
- [00:02:59.483]is highly valuable for me as a professional.
- [00:03:03.397]Outside of the many many organizations that
- [00:03:06.256]I've been fortunate to be a part of over the years,
- [00:03:09.296]RFI's always meant you're going to have
- [00:03:11.419]thought provoking conversations about
- [00:03:13.139]the future of the communities we mean the most to.
- [00:03:15.877]It moves past just, sort of, the black and white tools.
- [00:03:19.368]The sort of exercises that a community can be doing
- [00:03:23.099]and really invokes this sort of spirit of enthusiasm
- [00:03:26.448]of dreaming big, of doing big,
- [00:03:30.381]of going out really the next day
- [00:03:33.283]and just being truly inspired to do what you know
- [00:03:37.161]needs to be done to make that community better.
- [00:03:39.661]To make it live on forever.
- [00:03:42.312]The Rural Futures Institute has
- [00:03:44.241]awakened me to why I really even
- [00:03:47.640]wanted to go back to rural.
- [00:03:50.611]I didn't know that there were so many niches
- [00:03:53.392]that I love about
- [00:03:55.614]big city that I could also maybe get in some
- [00:03:58.872]of the rural communities.
- [00:04:00.112]Some of the culture and the arts
- [00:04:02.310]and the theater and the music.
- [00:04:07.631]A few people asked me over the years
- [00:04:09.310]if I would ever consider going back to Chicago.
- [00:04:12.280]And knowing what I know sort of about this
- [00:04:14.257]expansive sort of opportunity that a day in Nebraska offered
- [00:04:19.402]I would never consider moving back.
- [00:04:24.032](light music)
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