Course: Introduction to Sustainable Practices in Food Service

Thank you for joining our course and I hope you found it informative. I am sure when you signed up for this course, you didn’t realise just how important sustainability …

Well done, you’re at the end of an Introduction to Sustainable Practices in Food Service. We hope you have enjoyed learning more about sustainability, after all; understanding more about why …

Sustainability is a growing concern worldwide considering the increasing demand for food and diminishing natural resources. Schools have recognized the need to include sustainability into their curricula to ensure that …

Becoming sustainable is a journey and needs the owners and leadership to have a shared vision to become sustainable. Without leadership and dedication to pursue this goal, only superficial change …

You will recall we discussed the three dimensions of sustainability; social, environmental, economic. These are often referred to in business as People, Planet, Profit; or the triple bottom line. A …

Hotels and food service operations consume a lot of non-renewable energy (electricity and gas) and water, and through the production process, generate a lot of waste. Consider these statistics: United …

Hotels and food service organizations can choose what food to buy and who to buy it from, but one thing is a fact, they buy a lot. Meat, seafood, fresh …

What is climate change, and why should we be worried about it? National Geographic defines Climate Change as: ‘The long-term alteration of temperature and typical weather patterns in a place.’ …

Refresh your memory by looking at the population graph discussed earlier during our discussion on the History of Sustainability. You will recall over the past 100 years, the world’s population …

Defining sustainable development The Oxford Dictionary defines Sustainable Development as: “Economic development that is conducted without depletion of natural resources.” The concept of sustainable development was described by the 1987 …

We can trace the history of sustainability back to early human civilizations, where society would flourish, followed by a sustainability crisis that was either successfully resolved or led to its …