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Eco Friendly Day Menu Today’s featured Eco-Friendly menu items are available at the following AMS outlets. Go for the LOV items (Local, Organic, and Vegan). Bernoulli’s Bagels Freshly squeezed B.C. McIntosh Apple juice or locally grown carrot juice. Vegan and Local Roasted Red pepper humus on a toasted bagel of your choice. Vegan Creamy Mushroom Curry Bagel: Money’s mushrooms, Indian spices, and coconut milk on a toasted bagel. Vegan and Local Honour Roll Chicken Bento Box: local chicken and vegetables and locally produced yakisoba noodles. Local all in a 100 per cent recyclable container. Kappa roll: featuring B.C. grown long English cucumbers. Vegan and Local The Moon Asian Noodle Bar Curried Tofu Vegetables: Locally grown carrots, peppers, and potatoes, stir fried with locally produced tofu in a light curry sauce. Vegan and Local Blue Chip Cookies Vegan Chocolate Brownies with Peppermint Icing. Vegan The Pendulum Wild Rice Salad with Nuts and Dried Fruit. Local and Vegan Vegetarian Fried Rice: made fresh with local cage free eggs! Local By popular demand – a recipe developed by the AGSC 450 class: B.C. McIntosh Apple and Beet Salad in Apple Cider Vinaigrette. Local and Vegan Check out our regular selection of vegan baked goods! Pie R 2 Go topless! Garden Salad Pizza with assorted veggies, herbs
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and seasonings, and a splash of olive oil. Vegan The Burger Bar B.C. Money’s Mushroom Burger Special. Local B.C. Wild Salmon Burger: with lettuce, tomato and home-made tartar sauce on a fresh bun from Richmond’s Island City Bakery. Local The Gallery Lounge and Pit Pub Featuring locally owned and brewed Russell’s Cream Ale – on special. Local
Walking Veggie and Fruits in the SUB ?
How often do you get told by a Brazilian bumblebee or a red-headed pea to compost your food scraps? If you weren’t in the SUB during our last Eco-Friendly Day, you missed out on Ana the Banana, Cute Bumblebee, Foxy Pea, and Sexy Grape parading and picketing around the SUB. It was in this spirit that the first Eco-Friendly Day took place last Sept. 25. The Eco-Friendly Day was inspired by a project developed by students from Agricultural Sciences (AGSC) 450 from the faculty of land and food systems. This class aims to teach students through case-based learning how to integrate knowledge learned throughout their degree in dealing with real world issues related to UBC’s food system. Each AGSC group ultimately provides recommendations to the department studied by them. These departments include: UBC Sustainability Office, UBC Food Services, AMS Food and Beverage department, UBC Waste Management, and UBC Farm. This class creates the opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience with various food-related departments across campus. In addition, students are able to aid staff and faculty in devising sustainable solutions/innovations for their departments/outlets that many times their busy routines would have not allowed them to do. The Impacts Committee, an AMS sustainability group comprised of students, staff, faculty, and clubs, worked on the recommendations of these students throughout the summer of 2008 to make their projects a reality by that fall. Eco-Friendly Day was created to raise consumer awareness of food choices and sustainability initiatives as part of a larger effort to help the AMS lighten its ecological footprint as stipulated in the AMS Lighter Footprint Strategy. Recently, a new line of menu items were
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launched at AMS Food and Beverage department outlets that are local, organic, or/and vegan (LOV). These products were created to help make our food system more sustainable, by providing support to local growers, sustainable production methods, and accessibility to foods that have a lighter ecological impact – ultimately helping provide opportunities for customers to make more informed purchasing choices. This new LOV product line is promoted on Eco-Friendly Day at every AMS Food and Beverage department outlet in the SUB. There are a variety of other sustainability initiatives the AMS is introducing from green discounts, provision of free range eggs, and fair trade items, to recycling and composting. Ultimately, this initiative seeks to raise awareness, participation, and support among students, faculty, and staff of AMS Sustainability efforts and other campus sustainability initiatives to help our campus and the broader community become true leaders in sustainability. It is hard to stay positive when we know that we need a paradigm shift to alter the current course of environmental degradation. However, people can take time to incorporate new habits and ideas to their routines. A new and accessible initiative always provides an opportunity for change. So if we can’t change the world all at once, we can at least spread the LOV around! So come down next Thursday, Oct. 30, to check how much LOV the AMS outlets can offer you!
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