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Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This capstone project presents an interdisciplinary sustainable food system course for college level students based around Seed2Seed's farm for internships. The course focus is on incorporating multiple disciplines and teaching more than task-related skills. The S2S Internship is a nine week base course with a two week optional on-farm project skills. It was designed to be taught on the S2S Sustainable Education Farm. The intention of the internship...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The modern industrial food systems that evolved to serve the growing global population with an emphasis on corporate profitability over human and environmental health has left consequential economic, environmental and social impacts. There is an increased need to analyze and address the negative effects and develop long-term solutions that will nurture communities and regenerate natural resources through the food system. The majority of the current...
3) Reaching for restaurant resiliency: a handbook for operating a sustainable student run restaurant
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Restaurants must become resilient to economic, environmental and social challenges by applying sustainable practices. One way of educating future entrepreneurs, emerging professionals and the public is by displaying operation models of student run restaurants that apply sustainable techniques successfully. This project presents two case studies that identify sustainability standards and practices in the industry. The result was an instruction manual...