Teresa Mares came to speak to the class this week about the community gardening movement in Seattle. Along with a tour of a pea patch she talked about the seattle department of neighborhood P-patch program and the diversity of food sovereignty at Marra Farm. the reading this week "want amid plenty: from hunger to Inequality" Janet Poppendieck talks about how food was going to waste in the United States. how there is an abundent food production but also a huge amount of food waste. This article was interesting because it talked about how public and private groups are working to put a use to food that would have normally been wasted. A great deal of food that is provided for the soup kitchens in the United States today comes from coporate overproduction or mislabeled food that would have normally been discarded. This change will feed an extra 450,000 americans each day.

I took from this week, was the material that was showing us that people are getting involved; and their work is making a difference. Seattles efforts alone are enough to see that the nation is trying to become more economically friendly because of the obvious issues on the envoirnment.

http://www.seattlegreenmap.net/web-content/pages/people.html is a link for the seattle map project its a very good example of what seattle is doing to be green..

other states are joining in the campaign

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/07/national/main4782695.shtml is a great site about other states efforts..