Past Events:
The Evolution of The Sustainable Food Movement: speaker Patrick Holden
Patrick Holden, CBE, Chief Executive Office of Sustainable Food Trust will speak about biodynamic agriculture as part of the “Towards a Sustainable 21st Century” lecture series. More info » |
9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Arnold & Mabel Beckman Center
Global Food Summit: From Crisis to Security part 1: Towards Regional Resilience
GFS: Towards Regional Resilience, hosted by the Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, will focus on local and regional food security resilience, bringing together UC faculty and affiliates with innovative community leaders in Orange County around issues of food systems sustainability. More info » |
Blue & Gold Eats Green Scavenger Hunt
Follow @ucidining for weekly challenges to discover what makes UCI Hospitality & Dining sustainable & win by completing the most challenges before December 2nd! More info » |
12-1 p.m.
ARC Kitchen
Vegan Cooking Class
Join Chef Angel from UCI Hospitality & Dining and Chef Jess from the ARC in an exciting, hands-on vegan cooking class! Chef Angel and Chef Jess will teach you how to prepare a grilled polenta with a tomato and wild mushroom ragout and roasted broccolini, vegan chocolate cake, and a spring mix salad where you can create your own dressing! More info & RSVP » |
12 – 1:30 p.m.
Social Ecology I, Room 112
Food Matters Guest speaker Robert Gottlieb: Food Justice, Action Research, and the Search for a Transformative Politics
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5-7 p.m.
Student Center, Emerald Bay CDE
Sustainable Food Systems Speaker Series: Food Production
Learn about food production and how individuals can be a part of growing sustainable food systems! More info » |
2-5 p.m., 5-7:30 p.m.
UCI University Club Library
The People’s Kitchen: Dine for a cause
The People’s Kitchen is a community restaurant that couples political education and social movement building with a local, organic meal prepared by participants, community members, and chefs Saqib Keval (People’s Kitchen founder) and Roger Feely. This workshop features two opportunities: Part 1. Cook with Eco-chef Roger Feely Part 2. Dine with Café Encuentro The People’s Kitchen is a community restaurant that couples political education and social movement building with a local, organic meal prepared together with guest chefs. More info » Community, culture, cooking |
How to Cook Vegan Demo
UCI Hospitality & Dining Chef Kit will lead students through an educational vegan cooking demo, explaining preparation methods as well as nutritional information. Vegan, Sustainable Foods, Healthful Eating, Cooking |
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., 2 p.m. – 5 p.m., 5 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
UCI Arboretum & Anteater Recreation Center
Wild Foods: Harvest, Cook, Eat
Join the UCI Sustainability Initiative and Eco-Chef Roger Feely for a three-part event on wild and foraged foods. Take part in a foraging workshop, prepare a meal using wild foods and join Cafe Encuentro for a dialogue on local foraging. Register here >> More info » |
12- 1p.m.
Anteater Recreation Center
The Skinny on Holiday Weight Gain: A Discussion Led by Jody Margollis, MS, RDN
Join UCI Campus Recreation and Be Smart About Safety as UCI’s Registered Dietitian Nutritionist helps us navigate the holidays without putting on those unwanted pounds. The event will also feature a healthy holiday cooking demo featuring Chef Jessica. More info » |
Thursday, Dec. 31
Global Food Initiative: Zero Waste Dining Update
UC Merced has implemented composting in Yablokoff- Wallace Dining Center, joining many dining commons across the University of California, including Brandywine, Pippin and Lot5 Dining Commons at UCI in an effort to divert waste from landfill. UC San Francisco Medical Center at Parnassus has also completed a recent assessment of waste diversion, concluding 80% of all solid waste is being diverted from their dining locations. More info »
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Systemwide Sustainability Leadership Training for GFI student fellows
Sustainability Initiative will train Global Food Initiative Fellows from all ten UC campuses on sustainability leadership, community visioning, and action planning at two state-wide retreats. Sustainable Foods, Global Food Initiative, Food Systems |
CA Higher Education Food Summit
Join a convergence of students, staff, faculty, and community leaders at large to bridge the conversation of food access, security, and justice within California Colleges and local community environments. This gathering will invite student government and organization leadership, staff program coordinators and directors, faculty and administrators as well as community food agency leadership to UC Santa Barbara to strengthen partnerships and share best practices to inform action steps toward fostering access, equity, and justice for all. Food Security, Food Systems |
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12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
SBSG 1517
Fusing Palates and Difference: Food, Place, and Resilience in San Francisco’s Mission District
Chef Roger Feely and Jaime Maldonado present for the Food Matters lecture series on: Fusing Palates and Difference: Food, Place, and Resilience in San Francisco’s Mission District. For RSVP information, please download flyer » |
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2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Anteater Recreation Center
Reimagining Mexican Foodways: Reimagining Mexican Food
Explore the new art of Mexican cuisine with guest chef Jaime Maldonado from La Victoria in San Francisco. Space is limited to 20. RSVP » |
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Orange County Great Park
AGS Incredible Farms
Join the Associated Graduate Students for a trip to Incredible Farms, a unique public/private partnership between the City of Irvine, the OC Great Park, Orange County Produce and Second Harvest designed to be part of the solution to our county’s considerable hunger problem. This intensively-farmed 4.5 acre plot is a unique and innovative answer to the challenge of not just feeding the hungry, by providing them with highly-nutritious, top-quality produce. It also engages the community in meaningful volunteer work and connects our volunteers to our mission. AGS will be helping harvest produce from the farm to be distributed to food banks and shelters around Orange Country. This event is intended for graduate students. Email vpsocial@ags.uci.edu for more information. Food Security, Food Systems |
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Where Does UCI Food Waste Go? [Sustainable Food- Systems Speaker Part 2] Come learn about how food waste from UC Irvine is recovered to produce energy! Join speakers Anne Krieghoff (UCI Facilities Management), Tom Koutroulis (Waste Management) and Mark McDannel (LA County Sanitation District) in a step-by-step exploration of the journey taken by UCI’s food waste! Food Waste, Food Systems |
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SBSG 1517
La Otra Frontera: Farmworker Food Security Within the Northern Borderlands
Teresa Mares More info » |
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Student Food Security Town Hall
This town hall is for the UCI Community to come together to discuss the issue of student food insecurity on our campus. We will explain our current food access and security model, create a space for feedback and suggestions, and provide opportunities to join these efforts. Food Security |
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Food Equity Symposium
UC Irvine School of Law and the UC Global Food Initiative will co-sponsor a symposium at UC Irvine March 11–12, 2016 that takes up the issue of food equity and posits that in an equitable food system, all people have access to sufficient healthy and culturally appropriate food, and no person or community suffers from a disproportional burden of food production impacts.
Sustainable Foods, Food Systems
12 – 1:30p.m.
Social Ecology I, Room 112
To Live and Dine in L.A.: Menus and the Making of the Modern City Josh Kun, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Southern California More info » |
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Recyclemania
RecycleMania 2015 has come to UCI! This is our fifth year to participate in the nationwide competitions of over 600 Colleges and Universities to find out which school has the best Recycling Program. For the next 8 weeks we measure and report our paper, cardboard, bottle & cans, and food recycling. The 2015 competition runs from February 1st – March 28th. You may view the RecycleMania calendar here. More info » |
Agroecology Works! Toward Resilient, Productive Food and Farming
Featuring Dr. Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, Senior Scientist with the Pesticide Action Network, North America. More info and registration » |
Basic Science, Law and Food Equity
Panel 1 (2:00 – 3:20 p.m.): Nutrition and Poverty Alleviation: Basic Science from Biology and Medicine Panel 2 (3;40 – 5:00 p.m.): Establishing Food System Equity: The Contributions of Law More info and registration » |
May 5- 6, 2016 | Global Food Summit: Sustainable Solutions |
GFS: Sustainable Solutions is the second part of the two-part conference Global Food Security series held at UC Irvine. The Global Food Security Summit will assemble global leaders, practitioners, and academics from across the University of California system, to think critically about the new frameworks designed to address this challenge at the intersection of food security and climate action, to collaborate on the work being done, and to identify priorities that the academic world can and must address. A unifying theme of the two-day summit will be the linked frameworks for ending hunger and addressing climate change established in 2015: the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. In collaboration with the Global Food Initiative and the Office of the President, this convening will facilitate the development of a program of research and education priorities for the Blum Centers, with food security as the entry point for larger interdisciplinary discussions around poverty and development, climate change, and health. Faculty, students, policy makers, and community leaders are invited to attend. |
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Farm 2 Table Join eco-chef Roger Feely for an interactive workshop, meal, and discussion highlighting the connection between food justice and sustainability. More info and registration» |
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Food Matters: “Whose Farm, Whose Fork?”: Place (Re)Making and Representations of Contributions of People of Color to Local Food Movements Featuring Professor Kimberly Nettles-Barcelon, Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, UC Davis. With a response from Professor Bridget Cooks, Chair, Department of African American Studies at UCI. More info and registration» |
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Food Activism Workshop
Learn from speaker Joann Lo about how she has been able to incorporate activism and community engagement into her work and campaigns oriented around healthy and sustainable food. More info and registration » |
Taste the Season: Turnip the Beet on Taco Tuesday All graduate students and their families are welcome to attend this sustainable food fair featuring a taco dinner by Chef Jessica from the ARC, a smoothie station, gardening workshop and composting tutorial. Participants also have the chance to win fabulous prizes! community, cooking, sustainability |
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