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This past week, our group had tested our solution and had gotten amazing data from our results. I had taken our cookbook to a supermarket and asked for the people who I had given the book’s to to email me on a scale from one to ten, how likely are you to use this book. The average answer was a 6.Our data had a positive impact on the community because along with creating a delicious cookbook, we had saved an average of 11% of water for each and every one of our recipes. Our final product was a cookbook that not only had water saving recipes, but it also teaches the reader about how to save water. Hi blog, this week was very productive and useful. We finalized are solution and began to piece it toghether. We decided to make a cook book and we are up to about 7 recipes and two of them we have taste tested. They were absolutely delicious. The tofu tereaki being the highlight. we have gathered many indgredients that don’t use that much water and we really think that this can really make a difference.
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This week we got to introduce our solution in its early stages to the faculty at our school. And we learned a lot about what we need to improve upon. The main thing that we came about was changing our cookbook to have it’s own flavor. What we are doing is adding graphs and information about water conservation. We will also be adding comparisons between the water used in the normal recipe vs. the recipe that we introduce in our book. This solution has never been done before, hence the name a solution. And will excite a new audience through interactive education, of water waste in the production of meat. We believe we will see change within those who are willing to venture outside of their comfort zone for even one night and try one of our many water reduced recipes, and that can save thousands of gallons of water. We will measure how many people use our recipes and if so which recipes, and how much water they saved using that recipe, vs. using the normal recipe. All in all it has been a very productive solution, and we took another step towards developing our solution! Posted By: Campbell
This week our group made great strides in finalizing a problem to hone in on, and hopefully contribute our ideas, in the process of trying to solve this problem. The Problem? Water Waste in Meat Production. We decided to do this specifically, because Water Waste in Meat Production is a problem that is not always in the spotlight. Our earth is running out of water, and many people are complaining about it, and there are articles about some water waste in meat production, but before we researched we didn’t even know this problem existed. We are often talking about the extremes in our environment, Global Warming, Pollution, Fracking, and because of that we often skip over things that the public may not want to hear, like the fact that their favorite dish, wastes 660 gallons of water. We want to set out to make sure that if people aren’t talking about this problem, at least it won’t be as big a problem, and after our solution hopefully people will realize what impact eating one steak, or piece of chicken has on the world. But once we finished honing in on a problem it was time for us to hone in on a solution that we wanted to develop. We went through many ideas, such as creating a meat replica and putting it on the market. We decided that would take too much time for the three weeks we had to develop a solution. And it had been done to some degree of success with the Everything Burger. But if we were to do this, we would have to market our idea better than the Everything Burger, really sell the idea of simulated meat is just as good, if not better than real meat. We thought about the way meat is packaged and coming up with non plastic packaging, although this one was a bit of topic so we decided to skip of that one. Finally we came up with the idea to create a cookbook with recipes that reduce water. For example: Instead of having Orange Chicken, our cookbook comes up with a tofu and vegetable based recipe that tastes similar, and just as good as Orange Chicken. We also decided that we can still use meat in our recipes, because this isn’t a vegan cookbook, this is a cookbook looking to keep water usage down. We also decided that after further testing we will come up with a gallons of water used maximum for the recipes, and that is what will make our cookbook even more unique. For example it could be: Recipes just like Your Favorites Under 10 Gallons. This makes our cookbook unique because nothing has been done specifaclly focused on keeping your water usage down to a specific amount. The closest thing would be vegan cookbooks, but many of those recipes may not even save water because that’s not the goal. All in all it has been a very important and successful week for our group. Posted By: Aaron
This week, our team has made a lot of progress. We began to reach out to different sources and began to write the finished google doc on our questions. We all finished our vlogs and we all went through our research and organized it. Our group had began to reach out to non-profit organizations and we were getting no responses. Between our group we had ended up reaching out to 20 sources. Therefore, I had taken lead and gotten some of our information and some of our questions answers. Our group managed to squeeze this in just in time because we were running out of time to do our final problem summary. Overall, this week was very successful and we are striving to have every week go like this. Posted By: Aaron
This week, us seventh graders at Windward had been tasked with finding a solution to waste. The project is called CBL. CBL stands for challenge based learning. The members of our group consist of Aaron (me) Kam and Campbell we are all really close friends and are really excited to work together. We started our research and so far it is going great. Everyone is doing their share. We have decided to focus our project on the waste of meat and how we can change how much meat people eat in a day. Overall the project has had a great starting point and we all feel like eventually are idea is going to help this world in some way or another and therefore we are all excited to start CBL and change this world! |