Hey!
We’re Nora and Kyle.
Hummus-addicts, bad singers, and sleep-deprived students at Brown University.
But, more importantly for this blog, we’re budding environmentalists. We've spent the semester learning about the many, vast problems with the environment, and we've come to realize how much important work there is to do. We can’t do it all, but by focusing our attention on one aspect of the fight for a sustainable future, we believe that we can make a difference.
Our part is the local food movement.
By eating locally, carbon dioxide emissions are reduced, local businesses are supported, food safety is promoted, and often, the food just tastes better.
But, as poor college students, we get that it’s not easy – especially with a meal plan where the swipe of a card gets you all you can eat and bus systems to grocery stores might as well be written in Latin. Frankly, eating locally as a student can seem pretty impossible.
In this blog, we hope to help.
First, we’re going to attempt to quantify the exact effect that eating locally has on the environment versus eating on our school’s meal plan. We’ll be spending one day cooking and consuming local food, and one day eating in our school’s dining halls, the Ratty and the V-Dub. On both days, we’ll document exactly what we consume in order to share it with you, as well as to track its environmental impact, which, for the sake of this experiment, we'll be focusing on carbon footprint.
But we're also going to focus on how we feel about the whole experience. How convenient, expensive, and time-consuming it is to eat locally versus in a dining hall. How our food tastes, the experience we have preparing it (as well as cleaning it up).
This is our experiment that we hope you’ll join us for. We’re pretty excited about it, but we also understand that it’s just that – an experiment, and one that's probably not replicable every single day.
So, while we go on this journey, in addition to our research, comments, and reflections, we hope to provide resources and advice, to those on Brown’s campus, other college students, and just people in general. Eating locally isn’t a switch you can just easily throw – at least not for more than a day – but we hope to explore how we can take small steps by changing our personal consumption habits and seeing just how large of an affect those changes can have.
We’d really love to have you along.
We’re Nora and Kyle.
Hummus-addicts, bad singers, and sleep-deprived students at Brown University.
But, more importantly for this blog, we’re budding environmentalists. We've spent the semester learning about the many, vast problems with the environment, and we've come to realize how much important work there is to do. We can’t do it all, but by focusing our attention on one aspect of the fight for a sustainable future, we believe that we can make a difference.
Our part is the local food movement.
By eating locally, carbon dioxide emissions are reduced, local businesses are supported, food safety is promoted, and often, the food just tastes better.
But, as poor college students, we get that it’s not easy – especially with a meal plan where the swipe of a card gets you all you can eat and bus systems to grocery stores might as well be written in Latin. Frankly, eating locally as a student can seem pretty impossible.
In this blog, we hope to help.
First, we’re going to attempt to quantify the exact effect that eating locally has on the environment versus eating on our school’s meal plan. We’ll be spending one day cooking and consuming local food, and one day eating in our school’s dining halls, the Ratty and the V-Dub. On both days, we’ll document exactly what we consume in order to share it with you, as well as to track its environmental impact, which, for the sake of this experiment, we'll be focusing on carbon footprint.
But we're also going to focus on how we feel about the whole experience. How convenient, expensive, and time-consuming it is to eat locally versus in a dining hall. How our food tastes, the experience we have preparing it (as well as cleaning it up).
This is our experiment that we hope you’ll join us for. We’re pretty excited about it, but we also understand that it’s just that – an experiment, and one that's probably not replicable every single day.
So, while we go on this journey, in addition to our research, comments, and reflections, we hope to provide resources and advice, to those on Brown’s campus, other college students, and just people in general. Eating locally isn’t a switch you can just easily throw – at least not for more than a day – but we hope to explore how we can take small steps by changing our personal consumption habits and seeing just how large of an affect those changes can have.
We’d really love to have you along.
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