Sustainability

Tyrese Lawson

     Some issues that surround us here in Charleston SC that’s causing the area to unsustainable have to be the fact of all the pollution that’s occurring in the city and the fact that people just seem to not care about the environment that they are living in. So big issues that I have seen also have to be that we as people consume too much food, we produce, and our farming screws up the environment.  It was a study that came out that suggested between a quarter and a third of food grown around the world goes to waste. Food is waste in many ways and I think some ways we could fix that is by better food storage, processing, and transportation. Also, we need have a more connection between the people who have food and the people who need it. Another major issue when it comes to our food system is the consumption of meat which causing an increase of Carbon intake in the atmosphere which leads to global warming.

I felt really good participating in a community service project. Whenever you aim to do community service remember that it’s for a good cause you are actually doing work to help better the earth. The Dixie Farm was wonderful site we went and learned about different plants, and even got the chance to see how a compost is put together and how it looks. At Dixie Farm it was also a good experience to pick the weed from around plants to ensure they grow without any blockage from weeds and other items that was around them that could affect plant growth. The Dixie Farm definitely address the problem with being an organic farm no chemicals are used at all on plants and that help with the pesticides use that can cause future health issues in the future and also affect environment. I think the work at Dixie is sustainable environmentally because the use of the compost and not using pesticides and socially having a farm could be good definitely if you have help and going about it the right way.

There are many issues around Charleston that could be fixed to make city more sustainable, I believe if you have recycling bins around city for instance Marion Square could cause more people to put bottles in bins instead of just throwing them on ground or in trash. Also, on a federal standpoint there are more laws that could be in place to ensure more of a sustainable environment.

Before ENVT 200 class there was a lot of issues I did not know was occurring that was affecting our globe as a whole. So i took it upon myself to do some research and this is what I found. Programs could be funded by the government to ensure people eat healthier. Let’s Move! was launched by the former First Lady Michelle Obama in 2016 with the aim to combat childhood obesity. Many people downed that program but if you look at statistics since that program many children that are in public school are eating more healthier and the rate of obesity have fallen by 5% since the program was introduced.