Mann! Local Food Hits the Spot

February 6th, 2008
By Tyson Buerkle
When we buy ‘locally grown,’ the food doesn’t have to travel 1,500 miles from the farm to your fork – which is the average distance an American bite travels these days. In a world threatened, as ours is, by climate change, the amount of carbon emissions we save by eating local food is very important. Read More

Closer Than You Realized!

January 31st, 2008
By Tyson Buerkle
Have you ever thought about how what you eat actually impacts the environment? Maybe a ‘granola-munching vegetarian’ once chided you for filling your plate with a main dish of ribs and a side of chicken at the dining hall. As students, we tend to take food for granted, or try to eke out a living on ramen and mac and cheese – or both. And what else can we do? We’re students after all, right? We’ve no time, and maybe no money to really think about what we eat. Shouldn’t that kind of thing should be left to the 63-year-old retirees that jog to the health food store every morning? Well, sure, we don’t have a lot of time and we don’t have a lot of money, but we do have a responsibility that the status of “student” doesn’t free us from. Read More