This semesters presentations were really interesting, with continued and new innovations from last semester. I think because of the added challenge of contacting stakeholders most people chose to focus their projects locally. A lot of the presentations focused on food banks, but all these groups seemed to focus on it from a different angle. Student […]
Category: Final Project
How far we’ve come
Last semester I worked with the same group and we did our presentation on Food Waste from Seed to Plate, looking at all aspects of food waste. This semester however, we decided to narrow our focus solely on the legislation and law aspect of food waste. At first we were looking into Criminalizing food waste […]
Dine or Fine
On Tuesday we finished UNIV 203. It doesn’t feel like we’re done, it feels like we’ve just started. It’s only been a few weeks since we finished the documentary and bylaw draft proposal, and sent them out to council. And we’re still receiving feedback on both. I’m very excited to see how everything plays out! […]
Bylaw Draft Proposal
Today we finally finished up the bylaw draft proposal and sent it out to Calgary City Council for their review. Here it is: Bylaw Draft Proposal
Our Fight Against Food Waste, The Documentary
I will let the video speak for itself.
Survey Results
At the beginning of our final project I had put together a little 4 question survey, and shared it on Facebook to get a little bit of feedback about how and why people are wasting food, and if they compost. We weren’t able to integrate these statistics into our final presentation, nevertheless, I got some […]
Final Presentations
The final presentations went really great and I learn’t a lot. Now my opinion is biased but our class did pretty darn good in our final presentations! Below are some of my favourite aspects and topics of peoples presentations. “The Roots” (Alyssa, Rae, and Gurnoor) Presented on hydroponics and aquaponics in apartment and office buildings. […]
The Supermarket Recovery Program
“The Supermarket Recovery Program (SRP) is the first of its kind in Canada and offers a unique and sustainable solution to the problems of food waste and food insecurity, in partnership with food retailers.” The SRP is a system in place in Quebec in alliance with the Food Banks as well as in ” collaboration of Provigo, […]
Bill C-231
Bill C-231 was a introduced as the First Reading, February 24, 2016. However it had failed Oct. 5, 2016 Failed. This Bill was introduced to bring awareness to Food Waste in Canada as well as develop a National strategy on how to combat food waste. Below is my re writing of the Bill (my additions are […]
Food Waste Video
Here is a bit of footage to shed light on food waste.