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Here’s your weekend essay question: what would you do to take one small step to help change the food system?

As you mull that over, here are some suggestions from the Slow Food Nation blog:

1. Host an Eat-In or pot-luck with purpose where people bring dishes using locally prepared foods. Read our tips for planning a green pot luck.

2. Stop buying bottled water. More on bottled water, how to reduce your use of it, and other clean water options here and here.  

3. Eat mostly unpackaged, local food for a week, Michael Pollen style—you don’t have to be all or nothing (you can incorporate organic sugar that’s brought in from, say, Michigan, if you live in Texas, or decide to include other products that might have to travel, like coffee or chocolate, that you can’t live without). With harvest time winding down and yummy things like apples and squash still on the shelves, it’s the last push for locavorism before winter sets in and it becomes more difficult to find local food. Read about how one eater handled it at the Slow Food Nation blog.

Photo from The Food Network article about how to cook with pumpkins.