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Both Miller and Spoolman incorporate sustainable food, transportation, energy, water, and land use as primary goals. However, Sustainable Providence needs to include Miller and Spoolman’s resource use which aims to reduce, reuse, recycle, compost, replant, and share resources (Miller & Spoolman 28). Therefore, Miller and Spoolman’s eight and the goals listed in “Sustainable Providence.” are similar in terms of food, energy, land use and transportation.
One of the primary goals of Sustainable Providence is sustainable food. Providence is among the local and regional food system that has a vital role in ensuring that the system provides every Providence resident access to safe, accessible, nutritious, and culturally acceptable food, and cultivates a healthy environment in Providence by aiming for zero waste, implementing ecologically sound and sustainable practices, and ensuring healthy, equal, and just working conditions and wages. Moreover, the system contributes to the state and the city’s economy by supporting long-term economic development opportunities in the food sector (Environmental sustainability task force 19). Therefore, Sustainable Providence aims to attain sustainable food for the residents and positively contribute to the economy of the city.
The city aims to achieve sustainable food by encouraging and promoting appropriate scale production of agricultural goods to meet its needs. It seeks to utilize the existing manufacturing facilities to create more infrastructure for food processing. In terms of distribution, it aspires to use existing distribution infrastructure to develop new models that will make Providence one of the most significant distributions and aggregation hub. Providence aims to increase the consumption of healthy local food that is produced in ecologically sound ways. Additionally, it strategizes to provide fair and just working conditions and wages to its residents. The city hence aims to achieve sustainable food through action plans like food production, distribution and sustainable consumption.
Edinburgh city also has a sustainable food goal in place. Like Sustainable Providence, Edinburgh’s action plans emphasize sustainable land use as a form of food production. They focus on strategies that recognize that everyone in the community must be involved for sustainable food to be realized (Searchinger et al.). The city has launched ‘Edible Edinburgh,’ a plan focused on health and well-being, land use, the environment, and the economy (Searchinger et al.). The city’s residents, families, businesses, and organizations have been called to action to respond and help create a better food system for the town. Therefore, both cities champion for sustainable food for their residents.
Work Cited
Searchinger, Tim et al. “Creating A Sustainable Food Future”. World Resources Institute, 2018, https://www.wri.org/publication/creating-sustainable-food-future?segid=4375bb9b-43b8-4013-8ecb-10dd9466c5e1.
Environmental Sustainability Task Force. “Sustainable Providence.” 2014. PDF file.
Miller, G. Tyler, and Scott Spoolman. “Living In The Environment: Principles, Connections, And Solutions”. Google Books, https://books.google.co.ke/books?hl=en&lr=&id=QcQ8AAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&ots=yVBjWUHjwA&sig=pSHluuub1u8eGLOpZ-BE3FpEaT8&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false.