食物 isn't just an issue of sustainability — it's intertwined with some of the most challenging injustices of our time. Some 40 percent of all food produced in the United States ends up in a l和fill, 和 food waste contributes 22 percent of municipal solid waste in l和fills. 食物 production 和 waste are also major drivers of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
通过积极主动地吸引我们的学生, 教职员工, 以及更大的社区, we're targeting excess waste 和 educating our campus about recycling 和 composting. 我们也在开发新的方式来采购我们在校园提供的食物, striving toward healthier options whose origins are in step with our commitment to environmental responsibility 和 social justice.
解决粮食不安全问题
粮食不安全是一个影响世界各地社区的问题, 以及我们校园社区的许多成员. 我们认为，如果不能公平地获得食物等必需品, individuals 和 families will always struggle to maintain independence 和 improve their lives.
MG线上电子游戏学食品储藏室致力于缓解校园食品不安全问题, providing supplementary food items to anyone who has self-identified a need for our services. 学生们在寻找食物时通常会被称为MG线上电子游戏学食品储藏室 额外的支持和资源 在校园. 食品救济处接受来自社区的捐赠, 你也可以通过在你的俱乐部组织一次食物捐赠来帮助你的同龄人, 部门, class, 组织或团队, 或者单独带来额外的食物.
DU食品储藏室
消除饥饿
索迪斯, 我们的校园用餐伙伴, 通过“刷出饥饿”计划接受学生的捐款, 这有助于为有需要的人提供食物.
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桥社区花园
由生物系教员管理, 桥社区花园提供了高床, 工作人员, 学生们还可以在夏季的生长季节租用，只需要支付一小笔费用. The garden provides growing space for those who may not have such space in their homes, 和 allows our community to learn how to grow 和 care for their own food together.
语言学校的花园
由可持续发展中心管理, the 语言学校的花园 offers community food-growing space for students 和 other individuals looking to contribute to a more home-grown paradigm. 位于阿斯伯里和约瑟芬的英语学习中心旁边, the ELC garden houses eight raised garden beds where we experiment with different herbs 和 vegetables that can serve as a cultural exchange between the international students studying at the ELC 和 domestic students who run the garden.
可持续粮食政策
The 可持续粮食政策 (SFP) creates concrete sustainability goals for all aspects of the 新MG线上电子游戏’s food system. SFP旨在连接学生, 教师, 工作人员, 和 the greater DU community through education 和 operational practices as a way of improving the opportunity for campus food to be more inclusive, 健康的, 和可持续发展, 造福区域卫生, 经济, 和生态系统.
“食物通常被认为是‘伟大的连接器’.“食物将我们与我们的文化联系在一起, 我们祖先的故事, 还有我们祖父母的食谱. 食物 also connects us to the l和 where it is grown 和 to the people 和 businesses who grow, 运输, 准备, 出售, 或者分享. 食物让我们聚在一起，无论是家人、朋友还是陌生人.——丹佛食品展望2017
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大学减少废物
浪费 is often one of the most visible sustainability issues in any setting, 和 is often the one that gets people first interested in being engaged around sustainability. MG线上电子游戏力减少校园浪费, either by avoiding the waste in the first place or by increasing diversion of materials away from the l和fills to either be recycled or composted.
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完全回收
杜克大学几乎每栋楼都配备了大型电脑, 公共回收箱, 这使得在适当的垃圾箱中妥善处理垃圾变得容易. 另外, every residence hall room comes with a personal recycling bin that students can use to sort their waste properly.
我们的回收过程, 被称为“整体”或“单流”回收, makes it easy for students 和 other community members to divert as much waste as possible into recycling 项目. 玻璃, 一些塑料, 铝, 纸, 纸板, 其他材料可以放在同一个回收容器中, 消除了个人分拣的需要. 只要确保你的可回收物品尽可能的干净.
不知道在哪里或如何回收一些东西? 看看丹佛市 回收目录 to see all the ways to properly dispose of just about anything - from plastics to lightbulbs to paint.
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堆肥
Much of the waste we typically send to the l和fill can be composted into a reusable soil resource, 减少堆填区废物及支持其他可持续发展措施. 就像我们在大多数校园建筑中提供回收一样, we have been working to make compost available in more buildings across campus. 所有宿舍楼的大厅里都有两个堆肥箱, the Anderson Academic Commons has several compost bins on the main floor, 和 you’ll find compost in several other buildings as well: at both Ricketson Law 和 Daniels College of Business, 在克雷格和鲁法托大厅, 和其他人.
We take materials that end up in compost bins at DU to an offsite industrial composting center, so the process is easy for you — just follow the guidelines for compostable items below:
- 所有食物浪费，包括肉、骨头和奶制品
- 咖啡研磨和过滤
- 硬纸板(包括打蜡)
- 生产
- 植物和花卉
- 纸巾和毛巾
- 披萨盒/纸板
- 木制搅拌棒
- 标有“可堆肥”(非生物降解)的材料
- 纸袋
- 蜡纸
- 绿色可堆肥垃圾桶衬垫
完整的堆肥指引
有兴趣在你的建筑里添加堆肥? 看看这个指南.
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减少纸
你知道以前MG线上电子游戏的印刷是无限制的吗? 虽然这听起来对学生来说是件好事, 这导致了校园里大量的纸张被浪费. 几年前, DU开始给学生提供打印学分作为替代, 每个季度浪费的纸张数量都大幅减少. 通过注意你打印的东西来减少浪费纸张!
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居民餐饮堆肥
All of the resident dining halls at DU compost food scraps from meal preparation, 人们吃完后盘子里剩下的食物, 还有那些没上的食物. 另外, 索迪斯记录了每餐后剩下的食物垃圾, which helps them purchase 和 准备 the right amount of food next time they serve the same dish. This means that over time, we are significantly reducing the food we waste in the dining halls. Help do your part by only taking the food you will eat when you visit the dining halls.
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废物审计
One of the best ways for us to reduce our waste 在校园 is to underst和 what’s being thrown away in the first place. Students from the Center for 可持续性 team up with 部门s 和 building managers to complete waste audits that thoroughly examine what is being thrown away 和 what waste streams can be avoided. 有兴趣在你的办公室或大楼里进行废物审计? The Center for 可持续性 would be happy to help you create a unique team-buidling activity while learning about your waste. 发邮件至 sustainability@grandhotelstefoy.com.
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零浪费运动
MG线上电子游戏的体育运动是校园垃圾产生的主要原因, 因为它们是我们举办的一些最大的活动. 然而, volunteers 和 employees from the Center for 可持续性 work at nearly every ticketed match - hockey, 男子篮球, 体操, 男子足球, 和 men’s lacrosse - during the school year to educate fans 和 sort waste into the proper bins. 现在, 这些运动的转移率超过80%, 曲棍球的平均转换率达到87%, 足球转移了超过90%的垃圾.
学会可持续地生活
Here's how you can make simple adjustments in your life to reduce waste 和 cut your personal carbon footprint.
浏览可持续发展贴士
