UNC Institute for the Environment and Duke co-host sustainable food seminar series
| January 05, 2009 | |
| A new series of public lectures aims to give people a taste of sustainable food and how it can make a difference.
Environmental staff and faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University have collaborated to produce six seminars on sustainable food systems. The Robertson Seminars on Sustainable Food Systems will take place every other Wednesday evening, starting Jan. 21, alternating between the UNC and Duke campuses. The series aims to raise awareness and interest in food sources and in the relative economic, social and environmental costs and benefits of various food production practices. Each seminar will have a unique theme and will feature two or three guest speakers, such as local restaurant, business and farm owners and operators, as well as researchers, educators and nonprofit leaders. Refreshments will be provided following the seminars. The Jan. 21 meeting at Duke, “Emerging and Value-Added Industries,” will feature talks by representatives of Benjamin Vineyards & Winery, Sari Sari Sweets and Chapel Hill Creamery. The Feb. 4 meeting will be in 116 Murphey Hall on the UNC campus. Other topics in the series include retailing, food security and access, and education and research. The seminars are supported by the Robertson Collaboration Fund. Organizers include Ellizabeth Shay, PhD, research associate, lecturer and director of the UNC Institute for the Environment’s Sustainable Triangle Field Site, and Deborah Rigling Gallagher, PhD, executive director of the Duke Environmental Leadership Program. The UNC Institute for the Environment is a collaborative project of faculty, students and staff in the UNC schools of public health, medicine, business, law, government, and journalism and mass communication, and the UNC College of Arts and Sciences. The Institute offers multidisciplinary programs in education, research and outreach that allow students and faculty to adapt quickly to the changing terrain of environmental studies.
For more information, email foodseminar@gmail.com. To RSVP, visit: UNC Institute for the Environment contact: Danielle Del Sol, (919) 962-0965, delsol@email.unc.edu. UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu. |
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