Posts Tagged ‘educational institutions’
October 8th, 2009 | Author: admin
Article from Reuters on October 5, 2009
Meatless Monday, the idea that one day a week you enjoy a vegetarian diet as a way of cutting the carbon footprint of your food supply, has only slowly made its way into the public consciousness. Until recently, the list of signers-on to the Meatless Monday idea was sort of slim: some expected figures like Colin Beavan (aka “No Impact Man”), Michael Pollan (of “the Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food” fame), and the city of Ghent, Belgium.
I’m certainly not intending any knock to the city of Ghent, but Europe is often well ahead of the U.S. in this as well as with so many other environmental activities. So it was a bit of a boost, domestically at least, for the Meatless Monday movement when the Baltimore Public School District last week announced it would adopt a Meatless Monday menu for all 80,000 the students it serves.
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September 8th, 2009 | Author: admin
Article from the University of Windsor Public Affairs & Communications, September 8, 2009:
Sarah Woodruff Atkinson is hoping her research will help send a much clearer message to Canadians about what it means to be a healthy eater.
“If someone says you have a healthy diet, what does that mean?” says the new assistant professor in human kinetics. “Depending on your definition, it can mean many things.”
Woodruff Atkinson, who until now had been living near Cambridge and teaching sessionally and at Wilfrid Laurier University, will continue her work here on developing a healthy eating index. Based on the recommendations in Canada’s Food Guide, she and her colleagues from Waterloo and Mount St. Vincent in Halifax want to develop an “easy to use composite score” that would help people determine if they’re getting the right amount of nutrients.
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September 7th, 2009 | Author: admin
This isn’t necessarily a food article, however, take a look and read about the number one green school in America: University of Washington.
According to the article, a quarter of all the food used in the school is local, organic or fair trade. With all of the great farmland here in Essex County, maybe this is a policy we should be pressing the University of Windsor and St. Clair College to adopt?
