3 simple solutions for living more sustainably.

1. Innovation & Sustainability
Kelly Kokaisel
Sp10

2. The term peak food refers to a time when food yields
will be unable to supply the demand for the globe and
prices theoretically sky rocket to unimaginable
heights. The world is now eating more food than
farmers grow, pushing global grain stocks to their
lowest level in 30 years. Exponentially rising
populations, climate change, water shortages, and
growing costs of fossil fuels including petroleum
based fertilizers will lead to a global food crisis in the
near future. Compounding this problem is the fact
that there is little arable land left on our planet for
farming. --Wikipedia

3. How can you, just one person, help with such an
overwhelming situation?
Reconsider your simple, everyday choices.
Little things add up quickly. All the little choices you
make daily can add up to big things quickly as well.
2 simple strategies that can help avoid, or at the very
least delay, the peak food crisis are:
 Avoid purchasing food that uses packaging, aka buy
bulk.
 Create your own personal food supply system, aka
urban farming.

4. Buying bulk food means that unnecessary
and wasteful packaging is eliminated,
therefore freeing up space on our planet
that would otherwise be filled with garbage
(much of which is packaging). Many
useful, reusable, transportation vessels
have been created for bulk foods and allow
you to carry your food home on foot or by
bicycle.

5. Then when you get your food home,
store it in reusable glass jars. Think
about all the bags and packaging
waste you would save over 1 year.
Next grocery visit, throw all the
packaging into a pile and see how
much product you are paying for
versus packaging. Nature doesn’t
use packaging full of marketing and
product information. Why not?
Small labels can be used for Because a good food is a whole food,
product information, much less and you don’t need a brand message
waste than an entire package. to tell you how good an apple is, you
just know. It doesn’t need an
ingredient list because it is only and
simply, an apple.

6. If more people grew some of
their own food, we wouldn’t
have to rely so heavily on
others to supply our food for
us. Simple closed-loop
systems such as one like
mine here using rain
collection, biochar fertilizer,
and compost can be used to
grow your own food without
having to purchase
fertilizers, soil, or turn on the
tap to water. This also
reduces energy wasted by
traveling for your food.

7. These easy adjustments in everyday choices can help
you not only save money, time, and waste, but if
many of us make these simple changes we can help
tackle the giant issue of the peak food crisis.
Keep it local. Keep it logical. Keep it low tech.