As I noted before, I have this dream of mutating (not changing) the current system. And I truly believe the mutation needs to start at the very beginning…with the children and for the children and where the children eat at the schools. There are a...
I dream a new dream for a food system that works for everyone and everything. Our current food system works for some of us. Case in point, I have made a living working in kitchens as a chef for the last 35 years. The food system...
Greg Christian, founder of Beyond Green, will be featured in a webinar on what it takes to implement a sustainable school food program on Friday May 20 from 10:00 - 11:00am ET. Learn the key areas of building a school food program that is environmentally friendly, fosters...
Last year we sent our group of foodservice clients sustainability reports which disclosed what percentage of preferable products we purchased monthly and how much waste we generated. This year we thought, why not make this information available to the public? Beyond Green was recently recertified as...
Beyond Green recently participated in the Chicago Kids Yoga Festival held on August 17th, 2014. This was a daylong event hosted for free at the Garfield Park Conservatory. The main visionary behind the event was Jen Robertson who managed (with the help of many supporters)...
We met some of the Robinson School staff at the 2014 NAIS Annual Conference when they approached us enthusiastically about the idea of re-energizing their school lunch program. Robinson School is the oldest private school in Puerto Rico and has been a pioneer in developing...