final post

The meal I have written about previously is a meal classified as a solution. My meal contributed to the soulution of global problem because I didn't have to rely on commercial agrivulture, which uses up a vast majorty of fresh water, and causes rapid soil depletion, and can also cause contamination to aqufiers, via leeching from the fertilizer used to help promote growth. The garden in which my meal came from used no such fertilizers, nor did it use an excess amount of fresh water, because it mainly relied on rain storms, and was only hand watered when absolutly necessary.
It contributed to the solution of the local problem because as stated above it took my reliance on global food markets out of the equation. But at a more in depth look it helped minimize the contamination from water run-off because there was nothing used that could cause contamination.
It contributed to the solution of problems at the micro scale of my household because it saved us money, and it also kept us healthy because there was no contamination from run-off in our well water, as our garden is extremly close to our well.

post 3

My dinner the other day consisted of garden fresh, home grown fruits and veggies. Three of those foods were, carrots, green beans, and strawberries. all of which had been grown in my families garden that is located in our back yard located in Oconto, Wisconsin. This garden is tended to everyday (or so I'm told). The affects associated with the growing of my meal would be the depletion of nutrients in the soil, and the reduction of habitat, as the area where the garden is was once part of a woods. There were no chemicals used what so ever in the production of these goods.
This meal was brought to my my own to legs. I personally went out and picked them fresh shortly before washing and eating them. The good that traveled the farthest was the green beans because they are located in a spot that is farthest away from my dinner table. All of these goods are considered local, because they were grown in my own back yard. This food had no waste to speak of (yet).

battle of the bag

When watching the videos, I never realized how many plastic bags a single person, let alone a family of four uses on average. In the video the family of four averaged twenty bags per week. This really made me think about my consumption, and in doin so I have realized that I use about five per week on average. One way in which people are trying to solve the problem at the local level is by banning the use of them all together. Another way in which people are trying to solve the problem locally is by using cloth bags, and example would be of the 'im not a plastic bag' cloth bags. This problem needs to be solved on local levels, then eventually it can have a possibility of being solved globally. I think this because solution has to start out on a small scale, and eventually it can be applied to a larger scale. On the side of the manufacturer's the bags arent so much misunderstood to me, but more mis-used. They are more mis-used then misunderstood to me because most of the bags are 100% recyclable, but yet they are seen in every dump in large quantities. So if people actually disposed of them properly, there wouldnt be a problem.