By Maggie Lickter
Let’s start with The Question. It is asked in different ways. Sometimes it is posed as “What can I do?” or “How do I make a difference?” or “What types of things should I buy that make the biggest difference?” or as a recent student asked “I’m all about the use of foods [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Pinching pennies, potlucks, and politics…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged consumption, economy, local, organic, saving money, sustainable agriculture on April 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Public Housing, Urban Agriculture and University Students
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Columbia University, Community Garden Project, food costs, public housing, urban agriculture on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Becky Davies
Row after row of identical windows extend up the dusky, red brick facades of nine austere, depersonalized high rises, as if stamped mechanically on each floor of the twenty-one story buildings. Residents identify their buildings by number—“1320,” “570,” “75”. The towers feel and look more like human warehouses than someone’s home. Situated between [...]
Terps Go Green
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community food project, fair trade, farmers' market, local food, organic, real food, Sustainability, university of md on April 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
By Christian Melendez
With tens of thousands of students (and a tall size of visitors), the University of MD has to feed many mouths. Sometimes in life, quality is exchanged for quantity. This is a major concern here in College Park. On top of our large student body, the university includes a Conference and Visitor Services for [...]
Regional, Seasonal: Feasible
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AASHE, Environmental Campus Organization, local, organic, Truman State University on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the AASHE (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) conference last fall (2008), Vandana Shiva spoke to an eager audience that everything eats, no exceptions. The soil eats compost nutrients and manure, the plants eat soil and water, and humans (among other animals) eat those plants. There are, of course, many more [...]
Food = Community
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Campus Kitchens Project, community, food, local, organic on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By Elizabeth Whitehurst
During my senior year in college, I worked part-time at a locally-owned health food store, ringing up organic herbs and agave nectar, stocking kombucha tea and fair trade energy drinks. Gary, who tended fields when he left work, taught me the best way to chop an onion. Afternoons when business was slow became long, [...]
