The trace a food item posters where each table group chose a type of food to research was extremely insightful, as it brought attention to all of the resources that go into each stage of producing a single food item. My group chose to research beef, which is an incredibly resource-intensive food item because a huge amount of land is needed to produce the food necessary to raise cows, which, as large animals, require more food per pound of meat produced than smaller meat animals, such as chickens. As well as land, we researched water, energy, and human labor as resources that go into producing milk, juice, fruit, rice, etc. It brought into perspective how wasteful it is to throw away an end product because it wastes all of the resources from production as well.

This slideshow is a game I created for the food waste awareness campaigns during the month our class was outside showing students how to use the new food waste bins. Upon clicking, an item appears on the top of the screen. An administrator prompts the student to guess which bin the item should be thrown away in. After they guess, they can see if they are wrong or right upon click, as the item is animated to drag to the correct disposal bin. The game features normal trash, recycling, food waste, and the share bin.

For my food action story, I worked with two team members, Kira Matsuoka and CHloe Sheng to address the problem of food waste at our school. the route we chose to approach the problem from was awareness. In order to address students' confusions and reluctances on using food waste bins at school, we created art for and developed posters to attach to bins, showing students to empty food into bins and not to throw away any paper or plastic packaging. 

The document linked about contains an infographic I created to represent all of the things I learned during the community ethnography project where I involved myself in investigating both the farmer's perspective on food waste as well as corporations' perspective on food waste. The infographic explains key points learned from each perspective on how food faste can be created, minimized, etc.

My partner Grace and I interviewed Peter Changala, the owner of the Irvine Avocado Farms right next to Northwood. We learned a lot of interesting things about large scale farming, such as the views of business people who rely on pesticides such as glyphosate in order to cheaply and effectively manage their farms. This of course brought into attention the fact that farmers may not always have the Earth's best interests in mind, and we explore that in the project, as well as of course ways that farms create food waste (sometimes as a result of food safety laws on windfall fruits), sometimes as a result of a culture that only wants beautiful fruit. Overall, I really enjoyed the farmer ethnography because it opened our eyes to how many barriers really exist to solving food waste.

Corporations ethnography was one of my favorite projects as well because I was able to interview my managers who I'm very close with at Northwood Pizza. They gave me so much more insightful information than I ever expected regarding the differences between small businesses like us, and large chain restaurants. It emphasized the importance of supporting small businesses for their lesser environmental impact and their greater attention to detail.