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Ensuring a clean, healthy planet is one of the most important goals of the food industry. 2010年推出, The Culinary Institute of America’s 绿色校园行动 demonstrates our own commitment to this ideal as 学生, 教师, and staff collaborate to make our college campuses even more sustainable and eco-friendly in many ways.

Change Kitchen菜单

的原则启发的 菜单的变化®的联合倡议 哈佛T.H. 陈公共卫生学院, the CIA introduced the Change Kitchen菜单 at the 纽约 campus to help create healthy, 美味的, plant-forward meals for our 学生, 同时减少浪费. Thanks to a grant from The Statler Foundation, we hired Statler Sous Chef Alexandra Ceribelli ’19 to transform surplus food from our kitchen classrooms, 餐厅, and storeroom into crave-worthy menus.

促进可持续农业 by purchasing local ingredients and growing them on campus for use in classes, adding sustainability themes to CIA activities, and serving fair trade coffee in our dining facilities. +, 学生 have plenty of opportunities to work hands-on in our gardens and related areas on campus.

Incorporate sustainability concepts into CIA coursework, like in the 应用食物研究 bachelor’s program—which features classes on food policy, 食品生态学, and food systems—and the Farm-to-Table Concentration in which 学生 actively engage with local farmers and producers.

更多环保的方法:

• Transform our campuses into eco-friendly hubs 使用太阳能, 水, and renewable materials strategies, managing storm 水 and mitigating the “urban heat island effect” through garden roof technology, and installing geothermal heat pumps and energy recovery ventilators inside student residence lodges.
• 节约能源 to reduce our carbon footprint by conducting lighting audits, reducing the need for automotive travel by promoting high-definition videoconferences, and installing energy-efficient bulbs, 运动传感器, and kitchen ventilation controls.
• 管理资源 by operating a composting and single-stream recycling program, converting used cooking oil into biodiesel fuel to power campus vans, using a Natura 水 system and reusable glass bottles in our 餐厅, and employing electrolyzing cleaning systems.
• Reduce waste through our Food Recovery Program, 其中任何剩余的, ready-to-eat food that cannot be utilized on the 纽约 campus goes to the Hudson Valley Food Bank. The CIA donated approximately 22,000 of food in 2019. 除了, the college’s three-bin waste system in all kitchen classes has saved thousands of pounds of compost from being diverted to landfills.
• Maintain an active Sustainability Committee that generates much of the inspiration and support for the campus initiatives that take place at the college. 这群管理员, 学生, 厨师, and professors develops solutions to improve the CIA’s industry practices throughout the college’s food cycle.