Sunday, February 24, 2013

Feb 19th Class! Plan B chapters 9 & 10 / Video: "Call of Life"

Last class period on Feb 19th a couple groups presented on the Plan B Chapters 9 & 10. In addition, after the chapter presentations the class watch the video "Call of Life". When the groups presented chapters 9 & 10 they asked our group a couple times about ways to solve food shortages. The class came up with quite a few inventive ideas and our group added the ideas of:

-Food Forest
-Educate (Farmers comes in schools)
-Move towards a more Agricultural economy
-Ration the food
-Eat space food
-Community gardens must be made
-Offer tax cuts for people who have their own gardens

Kristin- I enjoyed the presentations on Plan B chapters 9 & 10 last week. After each presentation I feel that the class had a good discussion and came up with some great ideas to move forward. After each presentation I think our class grows a better understanding of how important it is to become more environmentally sustainable. I know that just in the last few class periods my eyes have been opened and I am beginning to think about how much I waste and ways that I could become more environmentally sustainable in my own life. After the presentations we watched the video "Call of Life". I enjoyed this video and all of the ideas that they had in it. I feel like a few of the ideas are a little far fetched in reality, but I also believe in the "aim for the stars" and "set your goal high" sort of speak. I wish that there was a way to get more people to watch videos such as this one and to spread the word about how serious are environmental issues are today! I feel like too many people either are not informed or just dont care. I seriously think that education and awareness needs to be the first step taken and it has to be taken now!

Meredith- The presentations became much more interactive this past week, which made them more enjoyable to listen to.  It was neat to get into our groups and come up with our own ideas about how to decrease food shortages.  Hopefully, some of the plans that the class spoke about can be set into action in the near future.  While watching the video, I realized that it is too easy for us to think globilization is not directly affecting us, but the reality is, we are slowly being destroyed by it.  Unfortunately, there is only so much we can do as individuals.  Therefore, we must come together to stand up against the big corporations who have always controlled the movement of society's goods and services.  The quote in a group's PowerPoint sums up last week's class almost perfectly, in my opinion: "if you want your life to change, your choices must change and today is the best day of your life to begin."

Melanie: 

In class we had to come up with different ways to solve food shortages and here are a few that we came up with as a group.

Ways to Solve Food Shortages
-Food Forest 
Make food forest become apart of the community, neighborhoods can each have thier own community garden and take the food from that,
-Educate 
Farmers or anyone that does own a food forest can come into schools or have lectures to teach others the ways they can garden and have thier own food forest.
-Move towards a more Agricutrual economy
We are all caught up in having a industrial economy that it's time we moved to a more agricultural economy instead. This way we can focus more on food that can keep up living. 
-Ration the food
This seems extreme, but if it comes down to it, food would have to be rationed in order for everyone to have food. As Americans we waste food, we have more then we really need, so this could actually help.
-Eat space food
What I meant by space food is eating systhic foods, this would be another soultions that isn't the best. If it has to be done, then it has to be done.
 
Christian- I learned from chapter 9 and 10 that we need to start being more concerned about ourfood. We can not keep up the diet we have been eating. We need to starting more local foods so that fuel costs are lower because they don't have to travel as far. I also learned that some foods are only sold to us because they are easy to ship that way (green peppers, icebergs lettuce).  The video we watched in class really blew my mind. I always thought globalization and bringing third world countries into modern culture was a good thing. This video made me realize other wise.  Back before Internet and globalization these villages knew of nothing more than farming and every day life. They have never seen TV, or drank a Coke. But now days these people know exactly what is going on in the first world. This causes them to be unhappy because they know they are not well off. Before they introduced to this stuff they were happy because they didn't know how little they had. This is a classic use of the saying "ignorance is bliss" because when they didn't know how good they could have it, they were happy.  Although the video made good points I do not totally buy into the idea that they should be deprived of these things, I just think they need to know that it is ok to live the way they always have.

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