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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:22:34 -0400
From: Louise Gava <lgava@...>
Subject: Re: Campus food carbon footprint?
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Middlebury has done some amazing analysis of their most common meals that is fun to check out as it has a spatial component and very informative http://geography.middlebury.edu/applications/Food_Mapping/
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:40:28 -0500
From: Suzanne Hansen <shansen2@...>
Subject: Re: Campus food carbon footprint?
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From: Louise Gava <lgava@...>
Subject: Re: Campus food carbon footprint?
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Middlebury has done some amazing analysis of their most common meals that is fun to check out as it has a spatial component and very informative http://geography.middlebury.edu/applications/Food_Mapping/
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:40:28 -0500
From: Suzanne Hansen <shansen2@...>
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Macalester College's food service, Bon Appetit, started their
"low carbon diet" last year
(<http://www.circleofresponsibility.com/page/321/low-carbon-diet.htm>http://www.circleofresponsibility.com/page/321/low-carbon-diet.htm). They also developed a "low carbon diet"
calculator available here:
<http://www.eatlowcarbon.org/>http://www.eatlowcarbon.org/.
You might also be interested in David Orr's article from back in 1989:
You might also be interested in David Orr's article from back in 1989:
Title: The Campus and The Biosphere Source: Conservation biology
[0888-8892] Orr yr:1989 vol:3 iss:2 pg:116
-Suzanne Savanick Hansen
Sustainability Manager
Macalester College
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:12:52 -0400
From: Leana Houser
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Subject: Re: GRNSCH-L Digest - 29 Oct 2008 to 30 Oct 2008 (#2008-233)
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I, along with my colleagues at the Johns
Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, recently completed a
comprehensive literature review of existing methods and tools for
quantifying the indirect GHG emissions associated with food
procurement at institutions. This review was performed in order to
guide Clean Air-Cool Planet in the development of a new, publicly
available tool for measuring an institution's carbon footprint - or
foodprint - which could then be added to their Campus Carbon
Calculator. If you would like a copy of the final report please
contact me.
In summary, there are currently no existing
tools that are publicly available for schools to use that capture the
full life cycle impact of food procurement at an institutional level.
There are tools that provide a foundation for the development of such
a tool at an individual level (prime example being the Bon
Appetit Low Carbon Diet Calculator) and various software modeling
tools and data exist to aid in the development of a tool. CA-CP
is now in the next phase of the project in which they are taking into
consideration the recommendations of the literature review and
determining the next steps to begin developing a pilot
tool.
I will be presenting on this project at the
AASHE conference in North Carolina if anyone is interested in
learning more about this effort. My presentation, "Measuring
Institutional Carbon Foodprints", will be part of the
Implementing the ACUPCC session on Monday November 10th beginning
at 1:30. There isn't a particular food focus during this session but I
hope to use the opportunity to broaden the attendees' traditional
understanding of what should be included in a GHG Inventory.
Hopefully, those of you with an interest in food issues will be able
to attend as well.
Leana
Leana Pitkevits Houser
Sustainability Coordinator
Johns Hopkins University
3001 Remington Ave
Baltimore, MD 21211
410-516-8060
<http://www.sustainability.jhu.edu/>www.sustainability.jhu.edu
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