Sustainable Food Production

• Objectives

  Differentiate between the concepts of organic food production, local food production and sustainable food production.Identify local pood producers and ways in which the students might increase the amount of local foods in their diets.Explain how consuming local foods might be more sustainable, or not.

• Sustainable local food

  Read this article as an introduction to the subject.

• 1. Create a personal food journal. Monitor the things you eat during 3 days. The 3 days do not have to be consecutive, but they should be representative of a typical day in your diet.
  2. Create a master shopping list of all the items you would need to make what you ate in the 3 days of your food journal. What would it take to feed you? When you do this consider the recepies. For example if you ate Pizza, you need wheat flower, tomatoes, cheese, pepperoni etc. If you ate a Hamburger you will need beef for the paties, wheat for the bread, onions, lettuce, tomatos, eggs and olive oil for the mayonaise…. Get the picture?
  3. Now that you have a “Grocery List”. Use the internet, the phone book, your contacts in the local comunity, the grocery stores, whatever mean is at your disposal to identify local producers for the product you need. By local I am going to mean within 100 miles of ECSU. For example, you can identify a poultry farm in South Mills that sells organic eggs and chicken meat, or a farmer at a local farmers market that sells seasonal vegetables like cabbage or Collards.
  4. As you will have found from researching the articles i gave you and other information from the internet, local doesn’t mean sustainable. When possible make sure that the farming practices used to produce the items in your grocery list are actually sustainable.
  5. I am concious that not all items in the list will be found locally, so identify those and explain why do you think they are not available.
  6. Lastly identify 5 things you could do to increase sustainable farming practices in your community.
  7. Document all aspects of your investigation on a report. The report should include the individual food journal, the master grocery list. The sources for the items in the list you were able to find localy and the ones you were not. and a conclusion which should include the list of 5 things from step 6.

Your report should be done as a Word document, and should include the following components.

1. Title page name etc

2. Introduction – Develop an introduction that presents your investigation. You can use the questions from the case study as a guide. A good introduction should include background information on the topic, the definitions your reader will need to understand your report and a brief summary of what you are going to tell us in the body of the report.

3. Content – You can call this section content, or you can divide the section into several sections each with their own title, but in general the content sections of your report should contain the results of your investigations. In other words, the answers to the questions posted in your case study. Don’t limit yourself to answering each question with a sentence or two. The questions are realy just there to guide you and point you in the right direction. Make sure you investigate the topic and write an complete account of what you found. Feel free to include tables, figures or pictures, or any other visual aid you can embed in the word document.

1. For this assignment, you will conduct a research paper on Climate Change and its affects on any organism, ecosystem, biological process or physical process (ex: atmospheric process, water cycle, nutrient cycling, etc.). no plagarism

You will develop a hypothesis regarding climate changes’ impact on your chosen topic (ex: Climate change has a negative effect on polar bear populations in the arctic).

2. Research the reasons for the seasons and create a digital graphic demonstrating the reasons for the seasons with a short summary.

This can be hand drawn and scanned or created using any graphics program.

This can be 1 large graphic or several smaller graphics.

This is an individual assignment

3 pages assignment

Descriptions of most of the steps below can be found in chapter 1 of your Engineering Economic Analysis textbook in the “The Decision-Making Process” section.

Step 1: Background Research (“Recognize the problem,” Ch. 1 of your Engineering Economic Analysis textbook)

Read/watch/listen to/view the resources provided for you on the Canvas Page: “Microplastics Problem Background Information” (linked here and available in the Weeks 3 & 4 module). Familiarize yourself with the microplastics issue, and the 2019 study on microplastics in Tampa Bay. You should conduct additional background research as necessary, ensuring that you use only credible sources.

Step 2: Research Global Approaches (“Assemble the relevant data,” Ch. 1 of your Engineering Economic Analysis textbook)

This is where you will begin to assemble the relevant data (see the “Decision-Making Process” section of your economics textbook). You will continue to assemble the relevant data in future assignments; for now, focus on the questions below. In your submission, number your answers 1-5, and include the bolded title preceding each question; for questions that ask for several specific examples, label each example (a, b, c, or as bullet points) below the title.

I need help writing a lab report . I have attached what is required and examples. The lab sheet need to be completed as well

• Purpose (10%): What was the purpose of the experiment? What were you trying to achieve?
• Materials (5%): What equipment and materials did you use? How did you use them?
• Method (5%): Provide a step-by-step description of the experiment
• Results (15%): Present and describe your data and your Do not simply provide a table. There must be text describing your data and calculations.
• Discussion (15%): Insights are provided into the wider implications of the results. Possible reasons for significant discrepancies are suggested and specific, practical ways to improve or extend the experiment are identified.
• Conclusions (10%): Includes a summary of the experiment, possible sources of error, and what was learned from the experiment
• Questions (20%): Provide answers to the five specific questions with enough detail to demonstrate your level of knowledge. This is a lab report and it requires more involved analysis than a homework assignment. The questions should be re-typed and your answer should follow after.
• Original Data Sheet (10%): You must include your in-lab calculations, drawings, observations and Your original data sheet must be initialed by the lab TA at the end of the session

-must be 200 words

-fossile fuels are currently a large portion of total energy production in the US. describe environmental safeguards that are in place for their production. if you were able to enact additional safeguards what would you implement to make fissile fuel production more environmentally friendly??