Sustainability and Food
Sustainability from farm to fork promotes eating and living well. There are several resources available to promote sustainable nutrition.
Seacoast Harvest: A local food guide for seafood
Determining which seafood is the healthiest and most responsibly harvested is a complex and controversial task. Our goals are to support our local food producers, the larger ocean environment, and the future of fish species. Educating ourselves as consumers enables us to engage in dialog with our seafood purveyors and make informed purchasing decisions. When buying seafood, we should attempt to purchase species that have healthy and sustainable populations, and whose harvest does not damage critical habitat and has a limited bycatch.
Seacoast Harvest: A local food guide for seasonal fruits and vegetables
Seacoast Harvest is an online guide to farms, farmers' markets, and farm stands of Rockingham, Strafford, and York Counties of New Hampshire and Maine. Produced annually through a collaboration of Slow Food Seacoast and Seacoast Eat Local.
Office of Sustainability - University of New Hampshire
The Office of Sustainability facilitates cross-disciplinary partnerships through the common ground of sustainability that strengthen the university's responsiveness to environmental, economic, and cultural challenges.
Food Routes
Where does your food come from? At FoodRoutes learn all about buying local, sustainable agriculture, grassfed and organic products, and food safety.
Northeast Organic Farming Association
Non-profit organization of farmers, gardeners, and consumers, working to promote healthy food, organic farming, and a cleaner environment.
The Northeast Regional Food Guide
A new nutrition education tool that helps consumers in the Northeastern United States choose a nutritious diet that promotes health and supports an active life.
Sustainable Table
Sustainable Table celebrates the sustainable food movement, educates consumers on food-related issues and works to build community through food.
6 Arguments for a Greener Diet
A diet based more on plant-based foods than meats and dairy can lead to extra years of healthy living. This very same diet reduces environmental damage and farm animal suffering. Eating green brings to bear the science on a greener diet and its impact on the environment.
Organic Garden Club - University of New Hampshire
The UNH Organic Garden Club works to cultivate a campus-community organic farm focused on promoting social, economic, and environmental sustainability.
Gardening: Natural Organic Pest Control
Insect and pest control does not have to involve commercial poison - there are a wide variety of safer, natural and pesticide recipes, as well as control any gardening pest with herbs and natural organic pest control.
Discover Sustainability at UNH
The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is nationally recognized as a Sustainable Learning Community.
The True Cost of Food
An interesting article that looks at the environmental effects of food production.
7 Rules for Eating
We Americans suffer a national eating disorder: our unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.
Blue Ocean Institute - FishPhone
FishPhone is Blue Ocean’s sustainable seafood text messaging service that instantly puts sustainable seafood information at your fingertips.
