Southside update

An amazing dining venue is emerging from the dust at Southside; it's going to be a wonderful environment with great food. A few unexpected delays have pushed the opening date to October 6th. Until then, Ciao Hall will be of it's best last service to us, serving breakfast, lunch, dinner and weekend brunch.

Please participate, it is your campus!

Dear friends,
This is a great place to add your comments. suggestions, compliments, complaints and anything else to the conversation about food services at George Mason

Opening Post

Hey guys! Sorry it took me so long to get on here guys, not too good with this blogging stuff. Shelia you did a great job displaying what objectives you would like to accomplish and how you would do so. I think that we need to start by first researching other comparable universities as well as campuses that are already sustainable. After doing this I think we should survey our own campus and see exactly where our students are at and what they know. From there I think we should then go on to diagnose what our concentration should be pertaining to dining services. Tell me what you think!

-Jenna

what's going on in the dining hall???

Hello everyone! Thanks for inviting me to your blog. I am really interested in helping the dining services realize sustainability of food-- we just visited polyface farm near Staunton and what a wonderful place-- I wished several times you could have seen it Michael!
Keep me posted,
Susie

Objectives

Hi all, hopefully you all sign onto our blog soon!

As for our objectives ... well first let me explain what a learning objective is according to the Center for Service Learning definition. It says that a learning objective is a measuable goal that you set for yourself to be accomplished through your work experience. It will require that you learn a new skill, develop a new habit and gain new information.

We are going to learn new skills, develop sustainability habits and learn and gain more information about sustainability around our campus and our community. And hopefully make some change!

Objectives:
To gain knowledge about how other campuses are sustainable
To learn if sustainable is always healthier?
Find out how others feel about sustainability-- do they even care?
Minimize Disposal trays, plates and utensils around our campus
Promote incentives for using reusable resources (such as mugs)
Learn how to locate where foods come from, and make it easier for those on campus to know by labling some foods (maybe the salad bar) on where they come from. (Hopefully this will encourage people to choose locally grown foods.)

How can we do this?
Research!
We can research other campuses that claim to be sustainable.
We can get in touch with those on our own campus.
Maybe plan a field trip.
Survery people (ex. question- what would motivate you to use a recycleable mug?)
etc.

Hope this helps... what do you guys think?