I am drafting procedural guidelines for a university food and beverage sustainability policy. I would much appreciate insight into similar projects prepared for university, corporate, or community settings. If anyone has information or experience in relation to this please contact me via email.
Some key considerations for the project are:
1) Local organic supplier arrangements and considerations
2) Effective and ineffective waste reduction strategies
3) Implementation/integration
4) Experience with suppliers/workers/handlers/contractors for supply and removal arrangements
5) Publications regarding impacts, responses, and post-project review
6) Key issues relevant to the university food and beverage policy environment/organization
Thank you,
Milan Nevajda
Independent Forests Foundation
Canada
Campus Food & Beverage Sustainability
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Milan This is a very important issue. I hope that this strategic booklet would be available to all. My own experience has been in organising a presentation evening on campus and using the organic/ local grown food shop to cater for the event. Another situation with some control was a conference I co-convened. Having 'no waste' catering for (minimal paper/plastic) pushed up the costs for labour but the environmental educators who attended were happier. Our university in Australia is not big and there is only one caterer (apart from the vending machines) so any strategies need to be negotiated with that group.
Birut Zemits
Ms
Charles Darwin University
Australia
Hi Milan,
We recently put together a Sustainable Catering Guide - most the principles of which our Campus Food & Beverage team have implemented. Whilst we don't have a food and beverage policy as such, we are lucky in that our food and beverage team is very enthusiastic and forward thinking. You're most welcome to utilise the guide - it can be found at http://www.mq.edu.au/sustainability/resources/guides/guides.html
Best of luck in getting this great initiative off the ground!
Kind regards,
Belinda
Belinda Bean
Sustainability Support Officer
Macquarie University
Australia
Hello all,
I visited the University of Florida a few years ago and they have a really interesting program in place. I was very impressed with the dining hall that uses locally grown food in their meals. I believe this website will be most helpful to learn more about UF's program http://www.bsd.ufl.edu/dining/sustainability.asp
Heather Squires
Sustainability Associate
United States
In my neck of the woods, The University of California at Berkeley and the UC System in general have done some good work on sustainability and specifically with the cafeterias at UC Berkeley.
Here's a link:
http://sustainability.berkeley.edu/pages/food/overview.shtml
Peter Schultze-Allen
Environmental Programs Analyst
City of Emeryville
I don't have such a document to offer. I would love to receive similar documents from anyone who has one to share.
Heather Trueman
Sustainability Initiatives Liaison
University of Saskatchewan
Canada