The no impact project is starting to get frustrating. Firstly, to be truly sustainable, our economic activity would need to be a lot more local. That means grocery stores such as Safeway are unacceptable. Even Whole Foods is part of the problem! Although food at the Northwest location of Whole Foods in Portland's Pearl district is mostly organic, it is trucked in from California and Mexico which means that Whole Foods' food incorporates a lot of food miles. My arugula from California has to go, my quinoa from Bolivia has to go, my
Living Harvest hemp protein from Canada has to go, etc.
The Good:
- I did go to the Farmer's Market on SE Hawthorne. I picked up: 2lbs of honey. The operation is headquartered at 16032 NW McNamee Rd. Also, bought gala apples grown in Oregon which were certified by Food Alliance[1].
- did not use mechanized transportation today (no streetcar, no Maxx)
- used the elevator much less frequently today than usual
- walked past Powell's and Macy's multiple times
The Bad:
- went to Pita Pit[2] which is a nation-wide chain. Unacceptable.
[1]http://foodalliance.org/
[2]http://www.pitapitusa.com/main.php?page=2
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