Field Work
1. Health: Consupmtion of nutrious and delicious tasing produce.
2. Ecological: These community gardens provide green infastructure and contribute to the ease of global warming.
3. Social : Increases responsibilty and educates the community to be greener and live a more sustainable life.
4. Economic: Food groth can produce income through selling produce at local markets .
Community gardens are part of a sustainable system because they filter rainwater, restore oxygen to the air and help reduce air pollution. Along with these benefits community gardens recycle leaves, organic waste and other items back into the soil and provide the much needed green space for many urban environments. By having community gardens people are more aware of livings things and their ability to live a greener life. Who gardens in a garden? The community gardens in the gardens depending on the area sections are set up for each individual to create their own green space.
Community gardens increase a sense of community and ownership. They bring people together from a variety of background to become community leaders who are passionate about sustainable living. By having these spaces in urban environments people are able to understand where food grows from, the importance of community, issues concerning environmental sustainabilityand healthy living that is inexpensive. They become easily accesible areas to nutritious food.
In the movie, This Changes Everything by Naomi Klien there is an exploration of climate change and social systems within the world. The film argues that climate change is not just a minor problem shoved between health care and financial problems, that it is a reminder to the people of the world to either embrace radical change, or radical change will occur physically upon the world. Through many examples such as Sandy, Power River Basin, and Alberta, Canada we can see that we have to fix our failing economic system and help our environment because it fuels our economy. The larger issue becomes capitalism vs. climate change. To defeat this battle of socie-ty verses environment we the people have to acknowledge our effect towards the environmental systems and the profit it brings us. By recognizing this problem, we can reduce emissions, live greener and think of alternatives to save the earth while still having the means to live.
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