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Menu Madness

 Over this whole year our GCE  STEAM class took 3 thematic courses - Water, Fuel, and food. All three classes connected to one another, here how. Water is a basic necessity required for many processes. It can be used both as a fuel - hydroelectric plants and in fuel since water or H2O is a result of the combustion equation.  These both connect to food because through the fact that water is an important component in cooking as well as growing the food, and fuel also necessary to cooking and denaturing the ingredients. 

    
During this last course - food  we talked a lot about the Green Revolution, and Norman Borlov.  We learned about how he learned to cross breed to create stronger more resistant crops for use in countries like Mexico that were starving due to crop diseases like the rust fungi. We considered the upsides and downsides to this such as the way it made plant resistant to the rust fungi but required extensive amounts or water and chemical fertilizer. It also caused a monoculture, and it took a toll on the environment and soil with the amount of chemical required. 

    With all this in mind we took to creating our own menus that took into consideration nutrition and water footprint and displayed in a transparent comparative way on the menu.



    I had a great time with this last action project, and it has made me hungry! Have a good year!

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