via City Farmer News:
http://diggingdeepersf.ning.com/page/open-call-for-entries The city of San Francisco is offering cash prizes for design improvements that apply to urban agriculture.
It is offering 3 prizes each ($1000, $500, $250) in two categories. One for a physical product or system "as large as a building or as small as a pin," and one for a social product or system "must be scalable to be considered viable."
The competition is open to any designer, architect, student, or interested person anywhere. Judging will be anonymous.
All entries due by midnight Jan. 31st 2010
Now I just need to decide which idea to submit...
"the qualities of these bacteria, like the heat of the sun, electricity, or the qualities of metals, are part of the storehouse of knowledge of all men. They are manifestations of the laws of nature, free to all men and reserved exclusively to none." SCOTUS, Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kale Inoculant Co.