Eating local produce can help decrease the climate because the distance of transportation will be smaller. When trucks travel place to place the emit CO2 and other harmful gasses into the atmosphere adding to the greenhouse effect; this further leads to the warming of our planet. However, when switching to local produce, transportation is cut down immensely. Eating locally grown food right from your neighborhood can bring together a community as they all work together to help the environment. O'dowd has the living lab which is a perfect example of this and we eat most of the food that is produced in the cafeteria.