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What’s safer, school lunch or fast food?
Friday, December 11th, 2009That’s where the farm to school movement comes in – there are lots of examples of schools that have schemed, negotiated, and stretched to find ways to integrate local/healthy, ecologically or organically grown food into their lunch offerings.
Calling all Jr. Iron Chefs
Friday, December 11th, 2009Sending this on behalf of our good friends at VTFEED:
CALLING ALL JR. IRON CHEFS Burlington School Food Project and Vermont FEED host the 3rd annual Jr. Iron Chef VTAre you a middle school or high school student looking to show your skills in the kitchen? Applications are now being accepted for the 3rd annual Jr. Iron Chef VT. Space is limited–don’t lose out on your chance to enter! Jr. Iron Chef VT is hosted by the Burlington School Food Project and Vermont FEED as a statewide culinary competition that gives students an opportunity to gain hands-on experience preparing nutritious, farm-fresh foods. This experience will encourage students to make healthy eating choices and understand more about nutrition, local agriculture, the culinary arts and school food systems. In this competition, teams of middle and high school students are invited to create delicious dishes using seasonal, local ingredients. Recipes should be replicable by school foodservice and will have a chance to be featured in school meals. Three awards will be given in each age group: Best in Show, Most Creative, and Greatest Number/Best Use of Local Ingredients. Jr. Iron Chef VT will be held at the Champlain Valley Expo on Saturday, March 27th, 2010 from 9:30 am – 3:30 pm. Team slots are limited and applications will be accepted on a first-come, first serve basis. All proceeds from the event will support statewide Farm-to-School initiatives led by Vermont FEED and the Burlington School Food Project. Applications are now available at www.jrironchefvt.org. For more information or to sponsor the event contact: info@jrironchefvt.org.
– Libby McDonald Vermont FEED PO BOX 697 Richmond, VT 05477 (802) 434-4122 www.vtfeed.org
Check out new “Climate Scoreboard”
Friday, December 4th, 2009The Climate Scoreboard is an online embeddable widget that allows the public, journalists and others to track progress in the ongoing negotiations to produce an international climate treaty. The Scoreboard allows users to check, on a daily basis, whether proposals in the treaty process commit countries to enough greenhouse gas emissions reductions to achieve widely expressed goals, such as limiting future warming to 1.5 to 2.0°C (2.7° to 3.6°F) above pre-industrial temperatures. A team from Sustainability Institute (in Hartland, VT), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Ventana Systems has designed the Scoreboard to show the estimated temperature increase in 2100 if current proposals within the negotiations were to be implemented. The analysis behind the Scoreboard, based on the C-ROADS computer simulation, is also available on the Scoreboard site, as is a short video about the Scoreboard.
By embedding the Climate Scoreboard on your own websites, blogs, and Facebook pages, you will be able to follow and share with others the progress of the negotiations in Copenhagen from day to day, and continue tracking progress in the months following the conference. As positions in the negotiations evolve the Scoreboard will automatically update to reflect the changes.
Check out the New UVFTS.org
Friday, December 4th, 2009I’m very pleased to be announcing the new and improved www.uvfts.org – thanks to Cally and Jesse at CatalystWebWorks for their design/build assistance, good humor and patience!
I look forward to getting your comments, suggestions and additions – the intent is for this to be a very interactive site for those of us working to connect local food and farms to the school cafeteria, classroom and community.
Peter
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