By Hai Vo
Five summers ago, University of California Irvine Dining & Hospitality signed a multi-million dollar contract with Aramark, one of the largest national and international food service companies, to extend operations from pre-existing residential dining halls to all retail dining locations except for one coffee cart near the Physical Sciences. Aramark “provides a range [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sustainability’
Wait. What Happened Five Years Ago?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aramark, assessment, college dining, contracts, fair labor, institutional procurement, Sustainability on May 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
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 existing [...]
World Food Garden
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged college gardens, Sustainability, World Food Garden on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The new website, WorldFoodGarden.org is kind of like the Facebook of food gardens. It is a free infrastructure that provides users with profiles and networking tools all centered around one aim: empowering each other to grow sustainable food gardens. On the home page of the site is the world’s first map of small food gardens- [...]
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 [...]
Big Apples
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aramark, Food and Puchasing Subcommittee, local food, NYU, organic, Real Food Summit, Sustainability on July 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
