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New Resources for Educators – “Making It Happen” Posters with Tips for Healthy Eating at School

Click here to view the ‘Making It Happen’ series of posters. Each version contains tips targeted at Principals, Teachers, Students, and Parents on how to make healthy eating choices at school a breeze.

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Applications for the 2013 Summer Institute now open!

What is the Summer Institute? The Think&EatGreen@School 2013 Summer Institute will focus on finding collaborative solutions to increase the knowledge and understanding of the connections between food, health and the environment across the food system in schools. A combination of…

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City of Vancouver Releases Survey on Sale and Purchase of Local B.C. Food

  Have a minute? Complete this quick survey on how you think the City of Vancouver can better support the sale and purchase of local food from across the province. Respondents who participate before April 29th have the chance to…

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University Hill Elementary to Celebrate Opening of Courtyard Garden

Do you have a student enrolled at University Hill Elementary School? If so, you are cordially invited to the opening of their new courtyard garden, Monday April 22nd from 5-7pm! Bring your appetite, as the U-Hill Garden Committee will be…

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READ: School Garden Project Lead by Jarai Teens via the Vancouver Sun

Read this great story about a new garden initiative underway, lead by Jarai youth living in Vancouver attending Vancouver School Board schools.  The project broke ground April 2 at Moberly School and “promises to yield fruits and vegetables enough to…

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VIDEO: ‘Dig In’ Webinar featuring Think & Eat Green @ School’s Steve Golob On Institutional Change in the Kitchen

Click the video below to view this ‘Dig In’ webinar, brought to you by the wonderful folks over at Farm to Cafeteria Canada. Speakers included TEGS team member Steve Golob, Chef at the UBC Place Vanier dining hall as well…

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Deadline Extended to April 30, 2013 for Online Master of Education at UBC

The HEE2 (Home Economics: Human Ecology and Everyday Life) Master of Education cohort offered by the University of British Columbia is very close to having the right number of students for the cohort to go ahead as planned in September,…

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Last Two After School Specials of the Year: Planting for Pollinators and Safe Canning with Jamming Demo

1) Planting for Pollinators                                          Food doesn’t happen without the magic of bees! Learn about the importance of native bees, honey bees, pollination, and how to grow your own pollinator garden and build pollinator habitat using native plants.  A range…

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