Sustainability Visit!

ME AT THE FARMERS MARKET VVVV!



Interview Transcript:

Do you think you are educated on the foods you eat?

response#1: yes, I think I am somewhat educated on food because I have attended multiple health classes and I try to stay trim.
response#2: no, I think I could be more educated on products I eat but I don't have much of a will power when it comes to cookies and brownies
response#3: yes, I believe that I am educated in the products I eat because I try to filter out foods with high levels of glucose from my diet.

What is your favorite grocery store?

response#1: I like to shop at Albertson's because its close to my house and I know that I am getting decent products even if it isn't supporting the local living economy.
response#2: I usually go to the farmers market for more of my fresher foods because I don't trust industrial stores like Von's or Albertson's to give me the best products.
response#3: The Earth!

Do you own or have you ever owned a garden?

response#1: yes, I grown tomatoes, lettuce, basil, and strawberries all from my backyard.
response#2: no, I just come here (farmers market) to buy most of my fruits and veggies.
response#3: yes, I used to own a garden but when I moved out to San Diego I just never got the time to start re growing one.

1. What struck you about the location you visited?

The location I visited was very pact full of people. I didn't expect so many people to be interested in the local living economy, but I was wrong. People from all over San Diego reach out in order to take part in this event every Wednesday.

2. Do you think you will start attending the Farmers Market?

Yes, I have been attending on a regular basis for quite a while. I usually make it about once a month but I think that I will start to go more and more often as I continue learning more about the local living economy through this project.

3. Do these places fit into our essential questions?

Yes, these place definitely help San Diegans live more sustainably. I think that through my project I have created an ad campaign targeted toward a great place and I definitely think that i chose a great cause to help. These places are perfect for a great example of how easy it is to grow fruits and veggies within your community!

Ecological Intellegence

Ecological intelligence is our ability as humans to understand that buying and wasting products on a non infinite planet is unrealistic. As stated from Coleman, "We no longer have the luxury of living life without making an impact on our planet". This is important because we must take care of our planet and keep resources available to our future children.
This project connects to our essential questions in humanities class because it is showing people not only a problem, but a solution. It is creating awareness through media (newspaper) just as we are creating awareness through our ads campaign! I also think that this article targets the question... "How could we live more sustainably?", through various solutions!!
I think that I am doing an excellent job at raising my ecological intelligence through my humanities class; however although I am educated on the subject, I am still in the process of moving from thinking about the problem... to helping create a solution. I think that I could definitely become more active in this subject because I have a passion for it. If I got off my butty and started to put my thoughts into action, I could do a lot to not only help my community, but to help others help theirs.

Data Collection

What struck me about the data my group collected was that a lot of people seemed to think that they were educated about the products they ate. Personally, I believe that their claims were false because if they were really educated on what they eat, then I am sure they wouldn't be as over weight as most of them were. I would like to pursuit their claims with a follow up question to ask them if they know certain common products in their food in order to test their knowledge. 

I however was surprised by the large amount of people that considered Trader Joe's their home store. I didn't think that the numbers would come so close to those who considered Von's their home store. These results did not match my expectations. To my surprise, I was very pleased with the outcome of number of people with Gardens. I didn't expect so many people to be pro home planting. This result was a nice change.

Based on my data I would like to run a campaign that targets the OB farmers market as a great candidate for a grocery store. I shop at the OB farmers market and I am very supportive of the cause. I would like my campaign to target people who are putting "crap" in their bodies. I want to make the consumers aware that the farmers market is a fresh and healthy place to buy locally grown foods. 

The Dervaes Family

Today in class, we watched a video about a very special family. This is a family who has dedicated their modern life to being 100% independent on nothing more than their backyard. This family lives on not what they need, but what they have. They are still a very happy and successful family, they simply just don't apply the term 'want' into their lives. In class we are reading a book titled My Ishmael. This book is about a deep philosophy on how the world came to be through agriculture. I believe that in the book they are trying to convey a meaning to the reader that we are destroying our world and it doesn't have to be this way. Through this film we watched a family in a regular san diego home transform their small yard into their personal farm; the movie was very inspirational. They are trying to show their ways of life through various websites like this, this, and this. I think that their attempt to reach the world is making an important difference in showing people that change is possible even in a world like this. Their outreach is growing and they are setting an important example to the people of our future. 

Eratic Retaliation

Anthropomorphism

An`thro*po*mor"phism\, n. [Gr. ? of human form; ? man + ? form.]1. The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections. 2. The ascription of human characteristics to things not human.

1. When Ismael talks about Anthropomorphism on page 82, he is referring to the fact that humans put their own emotions, feelings, or characteristics into a thing not human. It is like how Ishmael describes the dogs marking its territory and humans assuming that its because it wants to feel like it has a "home". But in reality it is just marking its possessions, not the land itself.

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