Kyla Wilson

Environmental Services Department

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Kyla's actions

Food

Eat a plant-based diet

Producing meat and dairy products has a significantly higher carbon footprint, land footprint, and often water footprint than producing plant products. I will avoid eating meat and other animal products every day during Orca Recovery EcoChallenge.

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DAILY ACTIONS

Nature

Organize a Trash Cleanup Event

I will organize a trash clean up effort with friends, family, and neighbors at my favorite local trail or salmon stream to keep trash from flowing downstream via storm drains to Puget Sound and/or Pacific Ocean.

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Food

Watch a Documentary about Food Sovereignty

I will watch 1 documentary(ies) about food sovereignty: the right of local peoples to control their own food systems including markets, ecological resources, food cultures and production methods.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Water

Stormwater Drain Marking

The single largest source of pollution that contaminates Puget Sound is polluted storm water runoff. By marking storm drains, we can educate our community by informing them that nothing but rain should go down the drain!

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Learn More about Food Deserts

I will spend 30 minutes learning about food deserts and find out how I can advocate for healthy and fresh Puget Sound food in my region.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Learn More about Food Deserts

What are the implications of access to nutritious food for a community?

Kyla Wilson 10/05/2020 9:48 AM

Access to healthy, affordable food can have a big impact on community health, ability to focus and preform well at school and work, and in bringing families together to socialize over food preparation and meals. Spending time and money commuting to grocery stores is an extra burden for low income residents.

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Kyla Wilson 10/05/2020 9:43 AM

I spent some time today learning about Food Deserts in Tacoma! Pierce County has a really nice Esri Story Map defining food deserts and showing walkability to grocery stores across the county. I highly recommend checking it out! I noticed a few discrepancies in point locations though. In my neighborhood there is a convenience/liquor store labeled as a grocery store on the map. It has certainly been a challenge for me to plan my grocery shopping in advance since I don't have a store in easy walking distance (other than 7-Eleven).

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