The speakers made me think about the difficulty of community organizing. Both of the speakers seemed passionate about their topics and because of that, they personally did not find it hard to get others to care about their issues. Making flyers like Greg Pace did might be a good option for spreading the information about food waste in America that might lead to getting people’s attention. Showing people how much food is wasted and how not wasting food can be beneficial is similar to Jessica Mathews’ approach. My biggest takeaway from their talks was that anyone who is passionate about an issue can become a community organizer. They both were just average citizens that saw a problem and found a solution to fix that problem.
After the discussion and my initial thoughts, I plan on hanging flyers in order to get people to recognize that food waste in America is a problem. Opportunistic places to post these flyers include anywhere that a large amount of people will read them, for example outside of the elevators in Morrill. When people wait for the elevators they can read the flyer. Once people are actually aware of the issue of food waste in America it will help to decrease food waste. Then people can come together to work towards spreading the awareness of food waste to other areas of Columbus. Once people are aware how big the issue is, I believe that there will be more studies done on the topic and we will see a decrease in the amount of food waste produced per year.