Energy Fair

Ok, so on Friday we went to the energy fair. This was a really hot day, and everyone was really tired. I went to two different exhibits or talks about different things.
The first was called Local and Sustainable Food, and this was defining what local meant and how we are making food now and how that is harming the environment. I liked this one and I learned a few different things from here. First and foremost I learned that waaaayyyy back when, in towns all over the place the food used to be grown, canned, and sold all in the same city/town. This was amazing to me, because I think about 90% of carrots are from california. My home town, or outside it anyway, grows corn. Yah, just like the rest of the small towns, corn. Possibly the number one crop in America. I am sorry, but this is kind of sad. Ok, the second thing I learned was that for EVER SINGLE SOLITARY calorie we eat, there are 9 CALORIES OF PETROLEUM USED TO GROW MAKE that single calorie. That is a ratio of 1:9, it's a very bad bad ratio.

So by the time that this talk was over we were very hungry. We got our food from the car and found a food court! Most all of it was organic food. There was even organic ice cream! (delicious!) [on right, my friend Jessica with her organic ice cream which I ended up eating most of it]
By the time we finished eating, we went to the Key-Note Speaker, Will Allen! Now if you asked me before the fair, I had no idea who the h-e-double-hockey-sticks he was. Now if you asked me, I would tell you one thing that would make you dig further: He grew up on a farm, vowed to never grow food again, and went later in life to grow his own food again! I know that does not make much since, but that's what I meant when I said someone would ask me another question to inquire more. Basically what he did was make a bunch of small greenhouses and grow his own food all year round! But it's more than just him now. It's an entire community with him, they also have their own compost with lots and lots of worms.
We didn't get to hear as much as I wished we could have because Will Allen was about an hour late in getting to his own time slot. We left after about 45 min of him talking, and he said a lot more about how we need to grow our own food again, helping the environment and all that jazz.
Well that's the energy fair for you. So much but not a lot. :)