by Nicole Dennis Shapna is no ordinary business. It’s not run by power and money hungry business men who live in luxury while their employees remain impoverished. It doesn’t produce a cheap product at the cost of irreversible environmental degradation. Shapna is an initiative to empower marginalized farmers in Bangladesh, Uganda, and the Dominican Republic, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘organic’
Shapna Coffee and Tea: A New Business Model
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coffee, community, organic, tea on March 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Organic Farming for Credit
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged courses, farming, organic on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Nina Merrill I had the privilege of spending my last semester of Colgate University on a study group in Santa Fe, New Mexico. One component of this Native American Studies program, which I participated in from August to December of 2009, expected each student to volunteer on a nearby Native American pueblo (or village) [...]
Pinching pennies, potlucks, and politics…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged consumption, economy, local, organic, saving money, sustainable agriculture on April 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
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 | 3 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 [...]
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 [...]
Sustainability on a Desert Campus: Both sides of supply and demand
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arizona State University, Campus Harvest, food activism, nutrition, organic, Sustainability on February 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
From the table of Kristen K. Rasmussen My experience as a campus food activist has been unique in that I became most involved after I embarked for graduate school at Arizona State University and simultaneously obtained a job as the Nutritionist for ASU Dining Services. Working for the dining services while at the same time [...]
Farm to Fork
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged campus food movement, fair trade, garden, local, organic, Princeton University on December 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Hi. My name is Steph Hill, and I am a junior at Princeton University. I came to Princeton from a very small town in rural British Columbia. Where we lived, eating healthy, organic food was very much the norm; everyone had, at least, a small garden in their backyard, and often quite a bit more [...]
Remembering the Big Picture
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Harvard, Industrial Agriculture, organic, Sustainability on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Food is not a glamorous topic at Harvard. There are very many people here who would like nothing better than to start their own non-profits to feed the starving children of Africa or to discover a miracle drug to save America from the obesity crisis. When I mention that my passion is real, organic, sustainable [...]
Moving On
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cage-free, dining services, fair, FLO, grass-fed, local, meal plans, organic, UNC Chapel Hill on October 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My senior year at UNC-Chapel Hill brought with it so many beginnings that if my internal Spring 2008 graduation clock had not been so persistent, I may never have received my diploma. Thus began a year of confusion and excitement as fellow students and myself founded FLO Food in the fall of 2007. The student [...]
