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On America Recycles Day, EPA regional administrator Jared Blumenfeld came to campus to laud Cal Dining’s food waste reduction program. UC Berkeley was among the first universities in the nation to sign onto EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge, which encourages everyone to reduce both pre-consumer and post-consumer food waste.
Tag: food
Food Day report: Minimum-wage hike would raise food prices pennies, help millions
October 24, 2012:
A new report released today, national Food Day 2012, says that a proposal pending in Congress to raise the minimum wage would increase retail food prices for American consumers by about 10 cents a day, while helping nearly 8 million food workers and 21 million other workers. Campus celebrates Food Day.
Doctor leads off campus healthy-cooking series
September 26, 2011:
Dr. Preston Maring, known from bringing farmers’ markets to Kaiser hospitals, demonstrate simple food-prep techniques to kick off the campus’s Health*Matters healthy-cooking classes.
J-school students’ online magazine explores food and health
September 23, 2011:
As part of the News 21 initiative, students at the Graduate School of Journalism have launched the Ration, a multimedia online magazine that’s all about food, from nutrition and farming to the business of food and the food deserts that blight our urban (and even rural) landscape.
Public invited to sit in on Michael Pollan’s food-movement course
July 28, 2011:
A rush is expected on Aug. 15, when Berkeley will offer the public free seats in food guru and journalism prof Michael Pollan’s fall class on the food movement.
An idealist’s new food label
July 28, 2011:
Berkeley’s J-School partnered in a food-label design contest aiming to inspire better food and nutrition literacy. And the winner is …
A nutritional facts label for the people, by the people
July 27, 2011:
In a partnership between Civil Eats and the J-School’s News21 course on food reporting, grad student Lily Mihalik reviews the results of a contest to let consumers redesign the nutritional facts label on packaged food products.
‘Real food’ collective opens for business next to campus
November 15, 2010:
A year and a half after keeping Panda Express off campus, the Berkeley Student Food Collective delivered on its alternative and opened a food market that brims with fresh produce, staples for home cooking and quick lunch fare — all sustainably produced.
