Objectives:
This Assignment addresses the following CCO objectives:
2. Present environmental information using effective written and/or oral communications
3. Describe, numerically and graphically, various presentations of data
6. Describe conditions that promote various ecosystems and appraise the impacts of human endeavors on them
7. Find, evaluate, use and cite variety of informational resources relevant to environmental science
9. Describe the impact human activities had on natural systems
10. Evaluate a range of cultural and social approaches to environmental problems
Due Date: Please see the Assignment and Syllabus for Due Dates
Credit: This activity is worth _30_ points, see Rubric for details.
A FoodPrint (food footprint) is the ecological footprint of the food we eat based on the way it is raised and brought to market. It includes the land area necessary for the production of the food and in the case of livestock, the production of the feed for those animals. For seafood it includes the oceans/lakes/rivers required to produce the food items. It also includes a measure of the land necessary to absorb the wastes produced in the production of the food, the manure, carbon dioxide (CO2) from transportation, landfill space from packaging, etc. (EP@W, 2008)
Complete the activities below and submit your findings in a Word document attached to the Assignment in Blackboard. Be certain to properly cite your sources in APA (Name, Year) format with a full references list at the end of your submission.
To help you better understand this assignment, Read the article, Food’s Carbon Footprint from nutritionist Jane Richards at GreenEatz.com (http://www.greeneatz.com/foods-carbon-footprint.html)
1b) Describe ways that you could reduce your Food Footprint?
(Be certain to cite your sources and use academic grammar and mechanics in your response.)
Food Item | Amount (g) | Ingredients: |
Granola bar | 42g, 190 calories | whole grain oats, sugar, canola oil, dark chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, natural flavor), roasted peanuts, yellow corn flour, soy flour, peanut butter, brown sugar syrup, honey, salt, natural flavor, soy lecithin, baking soda (package listing) |
apple | Medium ~50g, 75 calories | apple, Macintosh |
Skim milk French Vanilla Swirl Iced Macchiato | 24fl oz, 240 calories | Skim Milk; Brewed Espresso Coffee; French Vanilla Flavored Swirl Syrup: Sweetened Condensed Skim Milk, Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Water, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Potassium Sorbate (Preservative), Salt. (Dunkin Donuts, 2017) |
Your table will have more rows to reach a minimum of 1000 calories and 5 food items. |
If you need help creating a table in word (you can use Excel if you want), here are a few resources:
Now that you have taken a long, hard look at the foods you actually eat, identify the impacts of these foods on our planet and your health. Generally the less a food has to travel, the less CO2 is produced. Foods produced by large, industrial farming practices tend to use more fertilizer, water, and pesticides. Fresh, sustainably grown, organic and local foods tend to have better nutrition than highly processed items.
For each item in your Food Diary:
1) Is the item a whole or a processed food?
2) Was the item organically or industrially grown? Include the evidence you have to support this
3) How far has the food traveled to get to your plate? These are your food miles.
There are a number of online calculators to help you with this, or you can use Google maps to get the distance.
Example Food Miles calculators:
https://www.foodmiles.com/ [This one is based in the UK but you can select your home country and it will use Washington DC as your home location.]
http://www.fallsbrookcentre.ca/cgi-bin/calculate.pl [This one is more comprehensive, but the results are more challenging to interpret.]
4) Multiply the miles traveled (from #3) by the CO2 per mile conversion below to get your Carbon Footprint for that item. Remember this is an estimate only and that many additional factors come into play in the real world.
If transported by car (locally): 0.65 lbs CO2/mi
19.4 lbs CO2 per gallon of gasoline (DOE, 2009) / 30mpg (my car’s mpg) = 0.65 lbs CO2 per mile
If shipped by truck: 3.7 lbs CO2/mi 22.2 lbs CO2 per gallon of diesel fuel (DOE, 2009) / 6 mpg (Geotab, 2019) = 3.7 lbs CO2 per mile.
(This is the most common within the US, Canada & Mexico)
If shipped by air: 0.5 lbs CO2/mi
(Carbon Fund, 2016)
If shipped by boat: 0.06 lbs CO2/mi
(Carbon Fund, 2016)
5) What would be an example of a lower carbon footprint food?
Please note, you don’t actually have to eat this food, it is a thought experiment. Unless you list a locally grown, organic, in-season fruit or vegetable, there will be a lower carbon option!
This is an incomplete EXAMPLE of what Table 2 should look like:
Food Item | 1) Whole or Processed |
2) Organic or Industrial |
3) Food Miles (mi) |
CO2 conversion factor (lbs /mi) |
4) Estimated Carbon Footprint (lbs CO2) |
5) Lower carbon alternative? |
Granola bar | Processed | Industrial | 607 | 3.7 | 2,246 | Locally grown oatmeal |
Apple | Whole | Organic (label) | 20 | 0.65 | 13 | This is a locally grown in season fruit. |
Dunkin Iced Coffee | Processed | Industrial | Coffee: 2,396 (Bogota, Columbia)Cream: 988 (Wisconsin) |
0.06
3.7 |
144 +
3657 = |
Water from the tap |
**Note that this is a SAMPLE, you must complete Table 2 for each item in Table 1.
Be certain to properly cite your sources in APA format with a full references list at the end of your submission.
Please respond to each of the questions below in a short essay (2-3 paragraphs) which uses academic English and is properly cited in APA (Name, Year) format.
Read more on writing a book review on our blog.
Submit your Food Footprint Assignment as a single document and upload it the assignment submission link on Blackboard. Your document should include both your tables, your essay, and references. You must use academic English in your response, and you must provide citations in APA for all information outside of your personal experiences (include in-text citations AND a full reference list)
Carbon Fund. (2016). How we calculate. Retrieved from https://carbonfund.org/how-we-calculate/
Department of Energy (DOE). (2009). Fact#576: Carbon dioxide from Gasoline and Diesel Fuel. Vehicle Technologies Office. Retrieved from https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-576-june-22 2009-carbon-dioxide-gasoline-and-diesel-fuel
Dunkin Donuts. (2017). Iced macchiato. Retrieved on May 26, 2017 from https://www.dunkindonuts.com/en/food-drinks/iced-drinks/iced-macchiato
EP@W Publishing, LTD. (2017). Sustainable Food: Food footprint what it means.
Retrieved May 26, 2017 from http://sustainablefood.com/Foodfootprint-What.htm
Geotab. (2019). The State of Fuel Economy in Trucking. Retrieved from https://www.geotab.com/truck-mpg-benchmark/
Richards, J. (n.d.). Food’s Carbon Footprint. Retrieved May 26, 2017 from http://www.greeneatz.com/foods-carbon-footprint.html
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