Sustainable Pizza on a College Budget?

Broke college students don’t usually consider how sustainable their groceries are. For many students, the price tag is what’s most important. Despite the extra cost, how realistic is it to shop sustainably as a college student? What is the price difference, and what does sustainable even mean? Cameron Martinez and Joshua Solórzano test this by going out and shopping for ingredients to make a pizza from only local, organic and sustainable products. Then they make a pizza from the cheapest ingredients possible from Dollar Tree. From here, they taste the pizza, analyze their findings and get input from an expert, Kate Darby, about the meaning of sustainability and how realistic it is for college students to shop sustainably.
Credits:
Editing by Cameron Martinez and Joshua Solórzano
Filming by Joshua Solórzano
Graphics by Cameron Martinez
Pizzas made by Cameron Martinez and Natalie Hrabik
Research from PDI Technologies, Bellingham Co-Op, Pizza’za Pizza, Ferndale Farmstead, Cascadia Mushrooms, Applegate Farms, and Dollar Tree Website
Music:
Cooking by Lesfm
I Need You by Eric Godlow Beats
Yodel by Magic Lizard Wizard
Walmart Yodeling by Mason Ramsey
Stock footage from Pixabay and the Spongebob Archives
This project was created for the Advanced Visual Journalism class at Western Washington University during spring quarter 2023.