Tag: Center for Food in Community and Culture
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Prof. Emerita, New Leaf board president profiled in Press-Gazette
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A Friday (Jan. 3) story about the founding director of UW-Green Bay’s Center for Food in Community and Culture emphasizes the importance of good food beginning at home and close to home. The Green Bay Press-Gazette’s profile of Prof. Emerita Lynn Walter, also president of the board of directors for New Leaf Market Cooperative, explores…
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Faculty note: Phoenix publication (corrected)
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Prof. Laurel E. Phoenix of Public and Environmental Affairs, the co-director of the Center for Food in Community and Culture at UW-Green Bay, was editor (with Eric Fitch of Marietta College in the November edition of the journal Water Resources IMPACT. The theme of the issue’s five major articles and numerous columns was “Water and…
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Human Biology’s Pearson featured in coverage of ‘local food’ seminar
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Among the presenters at the recent community seminar, Newfare: A Forum Cultivating Health and Wealth Through the Local Food Economy, was Prof. Debra Pearson of UW-Green Bay’s Human Biology program. With Prof. Emerita Lynn Walter, Pearson is co-director of the Center for Food in Community and Culture. A third faculty member, Joanne Gardner of Human…
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UW-Green Bay’s Pearson to be featured at Nov. 4 ‘local food’ program
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NEWfare: A Forum Cultivating Health and Wealth through the Local Food Economy will be held Friday, Nov. 4, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Student Center Room SC 128. UW-Green Bay faculty member Debra Pearson, co-director of the Center for Food in Community and Culture, is a featured speaker on…
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Celebrate Food Day on Tuesday with a delicious film and discussion
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In honor of Food Day, the UW-Green Bay Center for Food in Community and Culture will be hosting a screening and discussion of the documentary Forks Over Knives. The film examines the power of whole, plant-based foods as potent medicines that may prevent, treat, and even reverse chronic conditions like heart disease and type 2…
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Reminder: Conservation Award Program tonight
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Former Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton will be the guest speaker tonight (May 18), when the 2011 Champions of Conservation Award Program is held on the UW-Green Bay campus. Her talk is titled “Cultivating Environmental Stewardship in the Lakeshore Region.” Co-hosts of the event on campus are UW-Green Bay entities including the institution’s Center for Food…
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Walter to host Thursday showing of ‘Food, Inc.’
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There’s a film presentation and discussion this Thursday evening April 28, starting at 6 p.m. at the Brown County Central Library (515 Pine St.), organized by the local Earth Week Coalition. Prof. Emerita Lynn Walter, co-director for the Center for Food in Community and Culture, will facilitate a discussion following the showing of the film…
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New Leaf Co-op has UW-Green Bay ties and January special events
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New Leaf Market Cooperative is bringing together growers and eaters in the first-ever winter farmers market in downtown Green Bay. The markets are set for two Saturdays, Jan. 15 and 29, 8 a.m. to noon, at the KI Convention Center. Vendors will have fresh, frozen, organic, and locally grown and prepared food available for purchase.…
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Walter and friends host info session on New Leaf Market
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The community’s new food cooperative, New Leaf Market, will be the topic of an informational meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 28) in one of the basement meeting rooms at the downtown branch of the Brown County Public Library, 515 Pine St. The organization’s interim board of directors includes Lynn Walter of UW-Green Bay and…
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Landscape architect Hou will also address ‘Guerrilla Urbanism’ during visit
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We have been posting notices here of Thursday’s visit by University of Washington scholar and author Prof. Jeffrey Hou, who’ll address urban gardens and “greening communities” at a Center for Food in Community and Culture lecture and reception later that day. We should also mention he’ll speak on the topic “Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking…