My action project group was the public health group. Personally, I chose this action project group because public health type work is almost the polar opposite of what I do on a day to day basis. However, despite starting the project with the mindset that my action project group would be challenging, I don’t think I was prepared for just… Read more »
The collaborative action project put on my group was centered around education of our topic (food accessibility) with the addition of giving back. Our event was a screening of the short documentary ‘Food Justice: A Growing Movement,’ with the bonus of a free chipotle burrito to those who donated a food item to the UW Food Pantry. This was… Read more »
Food waste has always been a potential issue to concern about and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is one of the biggest problem that people face in the world today.Although people now are paying more attention to the issue and are trying to improve the situation of food waste, there is still over $1 trillion value… Read more »
Our group decided to focus our action project on the topic of trade. For me personally I wanted to learn more about the subject because it has been such a hot topic in the news lately with Trumps tariffs and threats over trade agreements. Our original plan was to hold a faculty panel, but the University beat us to it…. Read more »
This project was one of my first experiences planning an event for a large group of people. I learned just how many moving parts needed to be organized in order for everything to go according to plan. Unfortunately, after all of our planning we had to cancel the event because our venue pulled out. The big lesson we learned was… Read more »
Our group project was focused around food waste reduction. We decided to connect a restaurant with a shelter to donate food and therefore reduce their food waste at the end of the evening. The ultimate goal was to connect a restaurant with a shelter and start a continuous relationship, but we weren’t able to make that happen beyond the few… Read more »
For my action project, my group focused on the issue of stormwater. We held an educational outreach event on Red Square; two posters were prepared for our event, one detailing the issue of stormwater and the other detailing potential systemic and individual solutions. While our posters held some information relating stormwater to our class, much of that information was to… Read more »
The Group action projects were an eventful, sometimes hard, yet worthwhile exercise. The thing that was most beneficial was learning about the local public health organizations and what they did, “Healthy King County” and “Food Coalition Washington” were two great organizations. Food Coalition of Washington even had a legislative agenda and goals that will be useful for enacting and advocating… Read more »
At first, I was cautious about whether my groupmates and I were all on board to focus on Food Security as our topic. I worried that I would not be able to contribute as much as I would like due to my lack of knowledge about the field, as well as the wide variety of politics surrounding food as I learned… Read more »
At the beginning of this course when we first learned about the action project we were going to do in the future, I was nervous because I didn’t know anyone in this class, and yet I would have to work with a group of them on what sounded like a pretty intense project. However, once we began working, the nerves… Read more »