Sustainable Food System

Students Mattias Lanas & Kate Kyder with freshly harvested lettuce from Wilbur garden.  

Overview

Stanford Dining strives to make every meal we offer at Stanford delicious and healthy for the eater and beneficial to the people, animals and environment that created it. Our efforts contribute to a sustainable food system at Stanford as a whole, recognizing that this can only be accomplished through partnerships within the University, the local community, and the broader sustainable food movement.

Stanford Dining has had a full-time Sustainable Food Program Manager since Fall 2006 and our employees serve on and lead several Sustainability Working Teams at Stanford. Stanford Dining Executive Director, Eric Montell, served as a judge for Acterra’s Business Environmental Award in 2008.

Recognition and Awards for our commitment to sustainability

Stanford Dining was one of the first university food service operations in the United States certified as a green business (by Santa Clara County).

Stanford Dining won the Acterra Business Environmental Award for Sustainability

Stanford received an “A” for Food and Recycling on the Sustainable Endowments Institute’s 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 College Sustainability Report Card.

PG&E Award for Leadership in Applying Green Building Design 2006.

Stanford Dining’s Sustainable Food Program main categories and goals:

Sustainable Purchasing: Prioritize food that is community-based, fair, ecologically sound and humane, as determined by the Real Food Calculator.

On-campus Production: Stanford Gardens and Farm: Fully utilize available land on campus for the purpose of awareness, production, and education.

Education & Awareness: Provide the Stanford community with enlightening and exciting experiences about sustainable food systems. Promote an understanding of food origins and impacts. Collaborate with student groups and academic departments to support research and teaching of sustainable food topics.

Conservation Efforts: Reduce our impact on local and global natural resources.

Last modified Tue, 27 Sep, 2011 at 14:23