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Throughout my two week break, I struggled the most because being around the holidays It was a lot easier to be eating foods that have not been locally produced. Also during the holidays, many markets were closed which denied a lot of my accessibility to locally produced foods. What I did was try to stock up on these foods before the holidays although, these foods tend to go bad much quicker than these transported foods. By next week I will try to influence others to eat local foods to help our environment by happiness. A ton of Public Markets in Seattle especially in summer is super fun with friends! Advertising could consist of telling schools or even just handing out a couple banners from certain Public Markets. Even just the smallest help from those around you can truly help influence others. Now I've thought long and hard about this. Continuing this project would help me stay healthier and keep our Earth healthier. Although some cons being, planning ...
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Reflection on the 3rd week Throughout my 3rd week in my personal impact project, I realized how much dedication is needed to endure the positive action. ( haha) I have still been going to Trader Joes and PCC and buying all locally produced food. Throughout this week two day out of the week, I went to the store to buy food. Other than that I worked out all of my recipes for the week so I wouldn't have to transport as much. Doing so would decrease my carbon footprint. If the project ended today I truly think that I would try to keep up with my routine but overtime being with teenagers and going out all the time, I feel that it would slowly drift away. A way that I could keep it is to not eat locally 24/7 but to actually just do it occasionally throughout the week. This would give me some independence but then also still help decrease my carbon footprint. My main motivations to continue are that eating so healthy, I can see big changes in my body, working out with the r...
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My second week went by fast, eating my local foods seemed normal. It genuinely felt good knowing that I was impacting our environment positively. I ate mainly foods from Trader Joes and PCC. I drove around 10 minutes to each location and picked up my foods for the week so that I wouldn't have to drive back every day. I bought food for my entire week, doing so improved my behavior at home and outside of the home.  The main impact that I am creating is decreasing co2 emission. Because I am eating locally produced foods we have around 1164 lbs of co2 per plate. This also means 352 gallons of co2 per/mile, which therefore means, there are 1500miles saved from one plate of locally produced foods. If everyone at school did this same behavior we would decrease the co2 emissions by roughly 600,000miles. This would exponentially decrease. This behavior if run throughout our world would save a world from pollution and certain gasses created from foods traveling ...
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Throughout my first week, I ate locally produced foods, spanning from PCC to Trader Joes. This consisted of every meal throughout my week.  Surprisingly It was not that difficult, the hardest part was finding the right foods to eat to keep up with my normal food routines. When using only locally produced foods will help sustain the environment but limiting the transportation as well as being healthier. When you eat only locally produced foods you create a healthier lifestyle and food regimen. I tend to either make food at my house or eat organic but that's not always the case. It can be unhealthy to only eat certain foods. I truly believe that when eating locally produced foods, it will decrease our negative environmental impacts.  In order to impact our environment, you must reduce your carbon footprint. By eating locally produced food you can reduce your footprint by up to 7% as well as reducing your carbon emissions by 66%. This was found from Eat your W...
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