Blog Posts in Category: sustainable
May 30, 2018
Learn how growing your own food can improve your physical and mental health, as well as the health of the environment. Growing your own produce is a simple solution to numerous health, environmental, and economic problems. Whether you are growing a single tomato plant or have a large backyard garden, it is beneficial to your health, as well as the environments. Five reasons to grow your own food include: 1. More Nutritious When growing your own food, your diet is more diverse and healthy,... Read More
October 10, 2017
Learn More About How You Can Make Your Dining Hall Visit Healthier Do you get sick of eating the same thing in the dining hall every day? Do you want something healthier? Look no further! This fall semester dining initiated Wellness Wednesdays, a time to provide new and heathy alternatives every Wednesday during lunch. Each dining hall has their own Wellness Wednesday feature, and each Wellness Wednesday is based off of Dining’s Menus of Change Principles. Menus of Change of was introduced by... Read More
July 10, 2013
Fairtrade products are all over the UK. In the States, you may only hear about these products when you are looking for them or in health food stores. They are not mainstream yet, but in the UK, Fairtrade is growing bigger and bigger by the year. This came as a surprise to me because the English do not seem to care about the quality of their food or where it comes from. Evidently, I was quite wrong. The Fairtrade Foundation, for those that are not aware is a nonprofit foundation that encourages... Read More
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