Food Security

Zero Waste Stream

BC food exchange program receives million-dollar award
VANCOUVER, BC, November 23, 2006 (Vancity) - A program that rescues high-quality food, keeping it out of landfills and redistributing it to non-profit agencies that feed hungry people across the Lower Mainland, has won a $1-million award from Vancity. Last year, Quest Food Exchange diverted 6.6 million pounds of surplus high-quality food from Lower Mainland landfills, which added up to $7 million worth of food. Each day the organization fills, then empties, its Vancouver warehouse providing food to more than a hundred social service agencies feeding more than 45,000 people a month. https://www.vancity.com/MyCommunity/AboutUs/MediaCentre/MediaReleases2006/Nov23BConlyFoodExchangeProgramGetsOneMillionGrant/

Students Involved in Sustainability Projects

Green Thumb Kids
SYDNEY, NS, November 2006 (Post Carbon Institute) - The goal of this project was to get children into growing tomatoes and beans for their own consumption or for sale at the Farmers’ Market. Excellent cooperation was received from teachers in the Cape Breton Victoria District School Board. Notices were sent to homes of all grade three students inviting them to join the project. Approximately 50 students registered; they came to the Market with a parent/guardian who signed consent for the child’s participation. Each child received two heritage tomato plants as well as a dozen Romano beans.
http://postcarbon.org/node/4299

Students Involved in Sustainability Projects

Green Thumb Kids
SYDNEY, NS, November 2006 (Post Carbon Institute) - The goal of this project was to get children into growing tomatoes and beans for their own consumption or for sale at the Farmers’ Market. Excellent cooperation was received from teachers in the Cape Breton Victoria District School Board. Notices were sent to homes of all grade three students inviting them to join the project. Approximately 50 students registered; they came to the Market with a parent/guardian who signed consent for the child’s participation. Each child received two heritage tomato plants as well as a dozen Romano beans.
http://postcarbon.org/node/4299