Confessions of a Non-Recycler: The City of Houston

By Emily Garrett The other day my friend emailed me an article from the New York Times about the city of Houston and their problem with recycling. At first glance, I was quite shocked to even read the headline because my prior thinking was that Houston has been one of America’s most environmentally-friendly, cutting-edge cities [...]

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Campus Farmers’ Markets: Part of a Delicious Revolution

My college career began and ended with a farmers’ market. In the fall of 2004, on a Saturday afternoon, my parents dropped me off at Princeton University for my freshman year of college with an armful of fresh organic fruits, vegetables, and flowers. Just a few hours earlier, I had been setting up tents, arranging [...]

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Public Appeal

Manhattan College is a fairly small school with students hailing from a wide variety of demographics. On campus, interest in food reform happens to be concentrated within a very small minority of students. Fortunate to have found each other at all, our little Fair Trade/Food Reform coalition decided, upon organizing, that gaining public appeal and educating our [...]

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Cooperation Nation

For the past two years I have been fortunate to live in the Hamilton College Woollcott Co-Op. A community that values organic fair trade and local foods as well as the pursuit of a sustainable lifestyle. The past two years were also the best two years of food living I have ever had and most [...]

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Fast Times At Slow Food BU

Started in the nineteen-eighties by Italian food fanatic Carlo Petrini, Slow Food is a social and ecological movement that encourages “good, clean, and fair” food production and consumption. ‘Good’ means that the food tastes good and is good for our bodies; ‘clean’ means that our food is produced in an environmentally sustainable and non-toxic way; [...]

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Say that your main crop is the forest: Providence College and community relationships

My name is Kerry, and I am a public and community service major at Providence College, which means that I spend a lot of my time in the community of Providence, Rhode Island, engaging in reflective volunteer service.  Last year, I acted as a community liaison between my college and City Farm, a ¾ acre [...]

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Big Apples

New York University has seven dining halls, which many of our 20,000 undergraduate students never use after the expiration of their freshman year meal plan. Until my sophomore spring, while concentrating my academics on Northeast agriculture and sustainable farming, I had no intention of getting involved with the food system at NYU. Having matriculated to [...]

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The Local Foods Initiative

In the fall of 2007 the Local Foods Initiative at Hampshire College sent representatives to the Yale Real Foods Summit. It was here where I realized how unique Hampshire is. We have a 15 acre CSA, many large hay fields, livestock (cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens), on campus composting, a 30 year old community garden [...]

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Sponsored by OTA

Organic Trade Association (OTA) is a membership-based business association that focuses on the organic business community in North America. OTA’s mission is to promote and protect the growth of organic trade to benefit the environment, farmers, the public and the economy.

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