Food Matters: Week 11--The Environment & Sustainability

1. Institutions

1.1. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

1.2. Governments

1.2.1. Community

1.2.2. County

1.2.3. State

1.2.4. Federal

1.2.5. International

1.2.5.1. United Nations

1.2.5.2. Paris Climate Accord

1.2.5.3. Kyoto Protocol

1.2.6. Bills, Laws, Regulations

1.3. Economy

1.3.1. Changing what we are growing and doing based on supply and demand

1.3.2. When the economy is better it gives us wiggle room to worry about the environment

1.4. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

1.5. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

1.6. Agriculture

1.6.1. Ranchers

2. Water Rights

2.1. Different bodies of water are controlled by different folks (e.g., Porcupine Dam is controlled by Paradise, UT)

2.2. 80% of the diverted water is used for agriculture.

2.3. Water Rights are under the Beneficial Use Doctrine--use it or lose it...if you don't use it someone else can buy it out from under you.

2.4. Who gets the water (e.g., CA)?

2.5. Impacts of farms w/ manure farms and it leaks into water sources, chemical runoff--Gulf of Mexico

2.5.1. Midwest and Western Agriculture

3. Land

3.1. Bureau of Land Management

3.2. State Parks

3.3. National Parks

3.4. Forest and Wildlife

3.5. Division of Natural Resources (DNR)

3.6. County Level: Historical items on the desert, cows, feed, debate making land wilderness land--Compromise--Ranchers can still use the land, limited vehicles, and then with the remaining land roads were kept open (roads--BLM Land).

4. Livestock

4.1. Cows and emissions

4.1.1. Pink Slime (see Learning Board for more info.)

5. Types of Energy

5.1. Clean energy

5.1.1. Saltwater

6. Emissions

6.1. Greenland Icecaps