**Pattern Name:** Plates Platform
**Introduction:**
Open source food.
**Illustration:**
**CONTEXT:**
"A healthy neighborhood thrives on access to education, healthcare, housing, transportation, and job security. We believe we can build an even healthier neighborhood through food. Food matters to everything that matters"
**PROBLEM:**
**Some people go hungry. Some people eat low nutrition food. Some people have difficulty preparing meals.** **Available, nutritious, local food ready to eat is often hard to access.**
**Forces:**
**THEREFORE (SOLUTION):**
**Organize within your neighborhood to use the Plates Platform to support yourselves in solving these common serious shortcoming in neighborhood nutrition.**
**Actions:**
**Consequences:**
# Environment "Plates encourages food prepared in smaller batches, moving shorter distances, with less packaging and little to no waste. By encouraging and incentivizing users to source more locally, use reusable containers, travel a shorter distance to source food, and eliminate food waste, we aim to lessen the carbon footprint of food systems."
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