MIT Food Initiative

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MIT Campus Wide Food Initiative

Vision: A campus where sustainable food is the norm.

Our objectives are:

Projects

• Food Mapping
  • Create a map of food supply chains, management systems, and distributors on campus through coordination with MIT Dining Services.
  • Please contact Matt McGarvey or Haley Peckett

• Eating Green@MIT Database
  • Outlining and crudely evaluating various options for dining and catering, and the dinnerware we use. This database is very much a work in progress, so we would certainly appreciate your additions and comments.
  • Please contact Todd Schenk.
  • Link: Eating_Green@MIT_Database.

• Campus Agriculture and Local Food Production
  • CSA drop-off point at MIT for Summer-Winter 2008 has been finalized.
  • Small-scale food production on campus, including small-scale education efforts.
  • Please contact Ryan Gray or Christina Santini.

• Waste
  • Guidelines on how to reduce food and container waste at food-related events.
  • Introduction to composting on campus.
  • Coming soon

• Surveying and Marketing
  • Survey sent to Sloan students about organic and local food preferences at Refresher Course.
  • Expansion of survey to other departments.
  • Marketing and education campaign to educates students, faculty, and staff about existing sustainable food sources at MIT.
  • Please contact Matt McGarvey or Haley Peckett

• Education
  • Screening of King Corn accompanied by Q&A with Ian Cheney (co-star/co-producer). Downloadable mp3 coming soon!!

• If you have any other questions or concerns, please contact us. You may also want to visit GreenSAP's Food and Waste at Events homepage to learn more about what we are working on.