Eating and buying locally grown food helps the climate crisis tremendously. When we buy transported goods from across the globe ships and trucks are forced to transport these goods miles and miles to reach your grocery store. This extensive transportation cause these ships and trucks to burn coal and fossil fuels to transport these items. When doing so they release large amounts of Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere. When we buy locally we minimize these transportation emission. Additionally, we help the help the families and business thrive here in the Bay Area!  When we buy local we help the earth and help economically support the farmers in our home towns. I have a very small food garden in my backyard but at my school we have a Living Lab that grows goods that are used in our cafeteria! I would love to expand my home garden to help minimize our need for non-local goods.

Erin- I agree with this completely. When we buy locally grown food, we save a lot of fossil fuels that would be used in the transportation of the food. Not does it save CO2, eating locally grown food is also healthier for us since they tend to have less preservatives and chemicals. Also, they taste better and we get to support local farms and businesses!

I totally agree with you, Erin! I like the idea of buying locally grown foods and growing our own. Many people may not think of the process and places, from which their food originate from. Do you think that buying serving proportionally changes our emissions as well? People should encourage growing our own food in our backyard. Although it possibly is hard for some people based on their living situations. I agree that people should be encouraged to buy food proportionately locally, and if possible grow their own food.

I agree with you but I think that all goverments could produce the food for themselves which would benefit their economy alot but the problem is that imported goods are mostly cheaper and people are looking at the prices alot, but what they dont get is that they are benefiting the global warming of the planet. Goverments should do less import and try to put their own goods on the local market and the rest can be selled to the countries in need. That way the we would polute less and get a better economy in the countries.