BLOM's First Event

Hey Everyone,
Earth Day starts BLOM's First Event. First to how it started. As you know, after reading the Omnivore's Dilemma, I wanted to do something with the knowledge I now had. My lunch group (I guess you could call them the BLOM committee) and I had started talking regularly about food. We decided to start a movement. We didn't know what to call it. BLOG (Big Local Organic Garden) was the one that was our best idea, but I disagreed. Our Movement was about other stuff besides gardens so I decided with BLOM. After that, (or rather before we had even had a name) we came up with an idea for an organic event. This was going to be based on Earth Day and the week after that day. It was convenient that Earth Day was on a Sunday so it would start off the week (I don't understand why Monday isn't the first day of a week). It would be a week of just organic, local, sustainable meals. Here were the rules:
1. All food must be local, organic, sustainable, and/or homemade.
2. Food must come from within 150 miles max. though it would be nice if it was within 50 miles.
3.Don't eat food with more than 5 ingredients or ingredients you don't know.
4. If you shop in a supermarket, stick to the outside perimeter of the supermarket.
That was pretty much it. We had at first wanted local to be any bordering state, but we realized with our teachers' help that that is a little to far. Another big change was made when we realized that it's hard for people to do it. Let's face it, pure organic food's pricey and sometimes difficult to attain. I will later talk of a farmer's market which was extremely expensive! The only way to lower the price of organic food is if it becomes more common and more people buy it. So anyway, because it would be difficult to do a week of all those rules for people we decided to say that whatever you can manage you can do. Even if it's one meal four times in the week that's good enough. Hopefully those that do BLOM will like eating organically and will do it more in the rest of the year.
So who's going to do this, some people might look skeptically on this, people like to get something out of it, or like to feel a part of something. Because of that we want to have wrist bands of some sort with BLOM on one side and the person would write their goal on the other.
We were trying to get the whole school to do it. Along the way sometimes I would give speeches at lunch about food, and try maybe to hold conferences. I will post a fact or two on this blog every day of this week. I told people about this at an environmental conference; try to spread it yourself.