Goat Cheese in The Mountains

On the last destination of our seminar we traveled to Norway. Here we went snow shoeing and boating on the Fjords. During a break on our boat tour we stopped for lunch. In the small town of 400 people, we decided to stop into a a grocery store. There we had the chance to try some goat cheese made locally. This is an example of using local resources, in this case, goats to create products that do not have a large impact traveling. This goat cheese is an example of adapting to the resources around you and being sustainable.

As we were leaving the store I noticed a small section where they sold produce. One thing I noticed was that they were not native to Norway. I attached a picture of this below.

As you can see, there are grapes, spaghetti squash, tomatoes, avocados and more. This poses a large problem to sustainability as previously mentioned in my blog posts. Most of these products are exported from Mexico. Mexico is 8,804 km away from Norway. I used a flight CO2 emissions calculator and a flight from Mexico to Norway would produce 142.21 tonnes of CO2*. This small section of a grocery store that feeds only 400 people created a negative carbon footprint. Imagine the amount of CO2 emissions that is created in a larger grocery store such as a Whole Foods. This seminar opened my eyes to see how much of an impact food has on our environment. This is an example of how eating local can make a large impact. Small changes can make a huge impact. * I used this website: https://climatecare.org/calculator/