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Sustainable blog

 Aug. 11, 2014

We created a Sustainable Products Project blog using Blogspot, Google Maps and Google Earth. Once we identify local food items that we use they are imported into the blog. The item then has travel miles associated with it, location on campus where served and what makes it sustainable. Photos are also incorporated if available on Google Earth. Students and visitors can link to the blog from our homepage.

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St. Luke’s Hospital takes advantage of new organic farm

 Aug. 07, 2014

The hospital is the first in Pennsylvania to start a garden on campus.

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Mass. to make big food wasters lose the landfill

Aug. 07, 2014

A new ban, starting Oct. 1, required all institutions that produce more than a ton of food waste per week to find other ways to discard food besides landfills.

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Hudson Valley Hospital Center opens teaching kitchen

Aug. 04, 2014

The teaching kitchen, along with an organic garden, are part of the Healthy Harvest program, which teaches patients and community members healthier lifestyle changes.

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Green Mountain College eliminating bottled water sales on campus

Jul. 31, 2014

The college is banning the sales in an effort to reduce the amount of waste it creates.

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Virginia Mason earns Marine Stewardship Council certification

Jul. 30, 2014

The hospital is the first in the country to earn the distinction, which honors locations for serving seafood grown and harvested by certified, environmentally sustainable methods.

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Produce from school gardens increasingly ends up in school cafeterias

Jul. 29, 2014

Districts in the Denver area are creating partnerships and programs to incorporate local produce into school meals.

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Selling seafood sustainability

Jul. 17, 2014

A keynote speaker at the NACUFS National Conference earlier this month, Chef Barton Seaver took the audience on a journey to explore what it means to serve “sustainable” seafood.

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Have healthy school meals gone hog wild?

Jul. 10, 2014

Much of the food from the federal school lunch menu winds up in lunchroom garbage cans. So two Rhode Island schools decided rather than being a complete waste, they're donating the scraps to nearby pig farms. Despite how it appears, Kyle Olson of Education Action Group says the overall issue is not a laughing matter.

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Lehigh University students working to compost dining hall waste

Jul. 08, 2014

In the past eight weeks, the students created a compost pile of over 425 pounds of food.

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