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New Generation Response Issue! November 30, 2009
Pick it up around campus or see the PDF on the Generation Response website!
Slow Food Emory October 18, 2009
What Slow Food Emory is about:
Slow Food Emory strives to reconnect students to the soil, water, organisms, cultures, and traditions salient to the production of food and establish sustainable communal interactions. Slow Food Emory seeks to invigorate genuine interest in food policy and production, encourage student involvement with the local sustainable food community, and encourage an appreciation for the importance of food in our daily lives.
Slow Food Emory is a local campus chapter of the international Slow Food Movement. Our main goal is to advocate “Good, Clean, and Fair” food in a way that is adaptable and accessible to Emory students.
How to get involved:
We have general body meetings every other Tuesday at 7:00pm in Few Demo Kitchen. We spread awareness of the Slow Food movement through educational outreach, pairing up with Slow Food Atlanta to do events/fundraisers, volunteering at farms and festivals dedicated to local and organic food, and cooking!
What we are trying to achieve:
Wendell Berry once said that “eating is an agricultural act.” We encourage people to be thoughtful about their food, and realize that what you put into your mouth affects way more than just yourself. We hope that giving people the knowledge to be able to choose between organic and conventional food, the farmers market and the supermarket, fair trade versus standard, pesticide versus natural, etc. will allow them to “vote with their fork” on what values are important to them. Slow Food is not about being a purist. It’s just about doing what you can.
Contacts:
President: Jenny Jia
Vice President: Ashley Morris
Communications Representative: Rachel Levine
Secretary: Ehren Dancy
Treasurer: Piali Samanta
Fall 2009 Events September 15, 2009
9/30- “Mondo Vino” showing (Anthro. 250)
Emory Environmental Alliance
10/14- “Deconstructing Supper” showing (Anthro. 250)
Emory Environmental Alliance
10/21 – Wonderful Wednesday: make your own Thai basil roll with basil from the Sustainable Garden!
Slow Food Emory
10/21 – Whole Foods 5% Day: 5% of Everything bought at Whole Foods will be donated to the Georgia Farms Flood Relief Fund.
Slow Food Emory
10/24 – 350 Day. 350 ppm is what scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Nifty General Environmentalism
10/24- Light bulb retrofit (with compact fluorescent bulbs) on main or Clairmont campus on at 6pm (time may change).
Emory Environmental Alliance
10/24 – Our goal is to get 350 people to pledge to eat locally and/or vegetarian for one day to decrease our “food miles” and subsequently fossil fuel emission.
Slow Food Emory
10/28- “Black Gold” showing (Anthro. 250)
Emory Environmental Alliance
11/3 – General Body Meeting: Cooking night –> canning! Local farmer Linton Hopkins is coming to teach us how to can our favorite summer fruits and veggies to preserve them for the winter.
Slow Food Emory
11/7 or 11/8 – Overnight at Will Harris’s White Oak Pasture Farm. (TENTATIVE). We’ll lend a hand on the farm in the day, cook a delicious meal at night and camp out on the farm.
Slow Food Emory
11/11- “Super Size Me” showing (Anthro. 250)
Emory Environmental Alliance
Southface (w/ Emory Environmental Alliance) September 15, 2009
EEA is hoping to take a tour of Southface, a company in Atlanta that plays a large role in LEED building in the city.
350 PPM!? (w/ Emory Environmental Alliance) September 15, 2009
350 represents a scientific theory about the level of atmospheric carbon in parts per million that our planet should maintain. We are currently at 390, but can work down to 350 and hope for a healthy planet (well a planet humans can live comfortably on) again. In the name of this cause Emory Environmental Alliance is going to have a light bulb retrofit on main or Clairmont campus on October 24th at 6pm. Our goal is to switch out 350 incandescent light bulbs for CFLs in campus residential rooms and educate residents about 350 simultaneously. Then we are going to take a picture that represents our efforts, send it in, and hopefully help convince those in Copenhagen that the public is behind 350. Go to 350.org to learn more.
The Beltline (w/ Emory Environmental Alliance) September 15, 2009
The Beltline is an Atlanta initiative that addresses issues such as congested streets, gentrification and low-income neighborhoods, brown fields, and public park space. EEA is going to take a Beltline Tour in a charter bus to learn about the plans this project has. It will be on a Saturday morning at 9am-12pm with lunch afterwards in early-mid October.
Please email cekelem@emory.edu if you would like to be added to the tour list.
Emory Environmental Alliance Goings-On September 15, 2009
Meetings are at 6pm on Thursdays in Cox Computer Lab, Classroom A
Food Film Series with Anthropology 250 (Fast Food Slow Food). The movies are all on Wednesdays at 6pm in White hall (need to find out the room number). These are the dates and film titles:
- 9/30- Mondo Vino
- 10/14- Deconstructing Supper
- 10/28-Black Gold
- 11/11-Super Size Me
Contacts:
Chloe Ekelem – Co-president, cekelem@emory.edu
Andrew Tate – Co-president, atate2@emory.edu
Cassandra Webster – Co-Vice President
Jenna Shweizter – Co-Vice President, jshweit@emory.edu
Matther Qiao – Treasurer, mqiao@emory.edu
Jack Etheredge – Webmaster, jethere@emory.edu
Welcome to Progressive Emory! August 23, 2009
Here are some progressive Emory student organizations on campus that are actively trying to make a difference:
Roosevelt Institution
Slow Food
Greeks Go Green
Feel free to comment on this student-run website:
With questions or concerns about progressive movements that Emory is involved in.
To inform us about things that you think we should be involved in.
If you would like your organization to be added to the website.
