tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11056795082957844042024-03-14T04:29:26.017-07:00Tracing Environmental GeographiesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14638665067539815729noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105679508295784404.post-84269184487006257992016-05-03T20:33:00.000-07:002016-05-03T20:33:01.516-07:00Project Blog - Post 4 - Reflection
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For the Intro to Geography blog project, I decided to go
with option A (choose a meal or product) and research the meal that I most recently
eat at that time. I discovered that the Italian Cuisine, Chicken Alfredo, is
more than likely worse for your body than it is for the environment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Though my meal was specifically Chicken Alfredo, the two
main ingredients necessary to successfully make any of the Alfredo plates is Fettuccini
Pasta and Alfredo Sauce, which can be found, purchased, and consumed by anyone
from their local grocery store.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What makes this plate an ecologically virtuous meal (a “green”
solution), is the produce that makes up the two main ingredients, as well as,
the continuous efforts from the company that produces and distributes this
pasta and sauce. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Fettuccini pasta (first ingredient), is made from flat
sheets of pasta cut into ribbon-shaped strands (known as "fettucce")
and produced by Semolina (ground from Durum wheat grains) and purified water. What
makes this ingredient domiciliary, locally, and globally environmentally
friendly, is the fact that Durum wheat is relatively grown worldwide and
reduces the need for excessive transports of goods, which naturally lead to the
release of CO2 emissions. In addition, the Barilla company (Italian Family
Owned Food Company), carefully place their manufacturing factories near
locations that produce the largest amount of produce in order to not only save
on the cost of transportation but also help reduce the amount of CO2 being
dispersed into the atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The second ingredient, Alfredo Sauce, is made with
high-quality ingredients like real Parmesan and Romano cheese and cream. Though
the process of gathering, transporting, and producing for this ingredient has slightly
more of an environmental impact than the pasta, it is overall a “green”
solution product in all three categories; especially in our state, Wisconsin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Though the two ingredients that made up my meal are
environmentally friendly in nature, I was quite impressed with the recycling efforts
by the Barilla Company. This company recycles almost all of their cardboard
uses, save about twenty percent of their total water and electricity
consumption, and they seek ways that best helps their company reduce their
total pollution outflow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I was fortunate to have a meal, two ingredients and a
company that are all relatively environmentally safe and vigilant; however not
every company will operate in this manner and not every meal will contain “green”
ingredients. Though this will pose limitations to promoting my meal as a
solution to environmental problems, the efforts of the company are ideal
mission statements that could be encouraged and practiced by other companies
with much less environmentally friendly products.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Related Link:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.barillagroup.com/en"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.barillagroup.com/en</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14638665067539815729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105679508295784404.post-2655277336789557202016-04-15T15:27:00.004-07:002016-04-15T15:27:53.735-07:00Project Post 3 - The Environmental Impacts of your Meal
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My meal discussed in the previous post was Chicken Alfredo; which
can be made in a variety of different ways, but I would like to concentrate on
the two main ingredients necessary to successfully make any of the Alfredo
plates. Fettuccini Pasta and Alfredo Sauce are essential for any rendering of
this particular Italian Cuisine and both ingredients can be found and bought at
your local grocery store.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The fettuccini pasta and alfredo sauce that I typically purchase
are made by an Italian Family Owned Food Company by the name of Barilla. Barilla
was founded in 1877 by Pietro Barilla in Parma, Italy and has since been
operated and owned by his descendants; currently Guido, Luca, and Paolo Barilla
(great-great-grandchildren of Pietro Barilla).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Throughout the years, Barilla has expanded its product,
development, and networks across the globe and is now an international group
present in more than 100 countries. In fact, Barilla is “a world leader in the
markets of pasta and ready–to–use sauces in continental Europe, bakery products
in Italy and crispbread in Scandinavia, the Barilla Group is recognized
worldwide as a symbol of Italian know–how.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Least to say, Barilla knows exactly how Italian pasta and
sauces ought to be made. With further research, I found that fettuccini pasta
is made from flat sheets of pasta cut into ribbon-shaped strands (known as
"fettucce") and produced by Semolina (ground from Durum wheat grains)
and purified water. Alfredo Sauce is made with high-quality ingredients like
real Parmesan and Romano cheese and cream. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Barilla company, known for having such a strong
internationalization network, gets its ingredients (Durum wheat, Parmesan and
Romano chess, and cream) from farmers and plants all around the world, but
attempts to conduct business locally to help reduce the amount of CO₂ emissions
dispersed into the atmosphere. The attached map designates which ingredients
are purchased from which country, as well as, where the Barilla company
produces their products. As you can see, the Barilla company conducts business
all over the globe, but more importantly, they have placed their plants in precise
locations to save money, electricity, water, resources, and reduce CO₂
emissions. An additional attached photo shows the amount of Durum Wheat that
was purchased locally (per country) by the Barilla Company in 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Though every company no matter how small will have environmental
impacts associated with the production of their ingredients, the Barilla
company has made a strong effort in minimizing emissions and consumption of
resources. I have attached two additional photos that depict the amount of area
that regenerate resources used and absorb the generated emissions. In addition,
it illustrates the total impact the Barilla company has on climate change and
the total amount of water resources that are consumed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Comparable to other companies, Barilla has been extremely
successful in its efforts; in fact, in 2014, there was an average of 17 kg of
waste per ton of product used; of which approximately 95% went for
recovery/recycling operations. In December 2012, Barilla received the “Lean and
Green” prize: an international project of the “Foundation for Sustainable
Development” which supports logistics companies in the definition of a plan to
check pollution and expenditure, certifies their validity as a third party, and
monitors them through a series of maintenance audits. Also, on November 15,
2012, Barilla signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Food Bank
Foundation; which guarantees their involvement in donating all surplus product
from Italian factories to charitable institutions of the Food Bank Network. Lastly,
the Barilla company has successfully recycled 98% of their packaging resources,
implemented a wastewater treatment plan (which significantly reduces their
impact before they are discharged into sewers or surface waters), and has
reduced water consumption by 20%, energy consumption by 5%, and CO2 emissions
by 20% per ton/product companywide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">From the field to raw materials, to plants and mills, to
transportation and distribution, to people (both locally and globally); Barilla
has impacted our water, environment, atmosphere, climate, and so forth.
However, unlike many other companies, Barilla has made it their mission to
situate their ethics on the environmental pyramid and guarantee a product life
cycle that “respects people and the planet”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14638665067539815729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105679508295784404.post-39242155085514631292016-03-01T21:03:00.003-08:002016-03-01T21:03:51.883-08:00Project Blog Post 2 - Option A1
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m a huge lover of Italian based dishes, but one of my
absolute favorites is Chicken Alfredo; which I eat quite regularly. There are
several different ways people prepare, cook, and serve this dish, but generally
it consists of fettuccini pasta, butter, boneless chicken breast halves, alfredo
sauce, and shredded parmesan cheese. Generally, the chicken breast is cut into
cubes and/or rectangular shapes and mixed into the pasta with the other
ingredients. However, it’s also very common to have the full chicken breast
(grilled or fried) rested on top of the pasta with the other ingredients grazed
over it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In other instances, in replacement of the chicken breast, this
dish could also be served with shrimp, broccoli, or just pasta; which is
commonly called Fettuccini Alfredo. This dish is ordinarily served with a side
salad, soup, garlic bread, or all the above. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Though these are just the general types of ingredients for
this pasta dish, there are countless other forms and ingredients that have been
created and enjoyed throughout the years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14638665067539815729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105679508295784404.post-1771464160541924012016-02-09T15:07:00.002-08:002016-02-09T15:07:52.079-08:00Project Blog Post #1
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The video “Battle of the Bag” has introduced me to many interesting
and problematic effects plastic bags have on our environment that I never acknowledged
before. According to the video, a family of four, on average, will collect a
thousand plastic bags a year and Canada, in that same time, is recorded to have
collected six billion bags. In addition, plastic bags take between 400 to 1,000
years to deteriorate and it has been the cause of death for many land and sea
animals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aside from the interesting harmful effects plastics bags
have on our ecosystem, the way they are made I found quite interesting. In
addition, I never knew that our first bag “form” was actually a bull’s scrotum.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Finally, I found the efforts to manage and/or solve this problem
quite interesting and honorable. I never realized how much of a problem plastic
bags have been and are for our world and how countries, cities, and individuals
are stepping up to make a change. For example, China, India, and other parts of
the world have completely or marginally banned the use of plastic bags and some
have gone as far as to ticket individuals caught using them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In recent years, San Francisco is the first U.S. city to ban
companies from using and distributing plastic bags. Areas in the world that are
banning the use of plastic bags for the greater good are effectively solving
the plastic bag epidemic. However, I thought that the plastic bag manufacturing
company introduced another effective way to still use plastic bags and solve
the issues large amounts of plastic bags can have on our world; reuse and
recycle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Unfortunately, this method has only been able to effectively
recycle 1-3% of total bags used, whereas the “banning” method has reduced plastic
bag use entirely. For this reason, I feel that “banning” plastic bags may be
the most prominent manner in which to solve this issue. Furthermore, because
this issue is a worldwide problem, we should consider adopting the “banning”
method globally. By doing this, we will see the end of the plastic bag and its
harmful effects towards the environment, atmosphere, and wildlife. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Though the plastic bag manufacturer may disagree with my
suggestion and suggests that the bags are simply “misunderstood” and thus not a
problem to be solved. We have seen, recorded, and grasped the effects these
bags have had on our environment and way of life. These bags may be convenient
and may have the capability to be recycled and reused, but without 100%
worldwide individual dedication and participation in this method, it proves to
be extremely ineffective. If we won’t think of the environment and make changes
as a whole, then the government must implement restricting and/or banning that
product. The plastic bag isn’t a problem because it’s misunderstood; that
statement is irrelevant. We understand the pros and cons of the plastic bag; it’s
problematic because it’s almost indestructible and overly misused. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://dpw.lacounty.gov/epd/PlasticBags/Articles/Googobits_07-21-05.pdf" target="_blank">http://dpw.lacounty.gov/epd/PlasticBags/Articles/Googobits_07-21-05.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.ntepa.nt.gov.au/waste-pollution/plastic-bag-ban/enviroimpacts" target="_blank">http://www.ntepa.nt.gov.au/waste-pollution/plastic-bag-ban/enviroimpacts</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><a href="http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Are_Plastic_Shopping_Bags_a_Problem_in_Our_Environment" target="_blank">http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Are_Plastic_Shopping_Bags_a_Problem_in_Our_Environment</a></o:p></span></div>
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