We are happy to announce a new funding partnership with the City of Calgary for the EcoCooks: Food Waste series.
The City’s support, provided through the Circular Economy Pilot Initiatives: Food Waste and Repair-Reuse grant, allows the EcoCooks program to be offered in grade 7-12 classrooms throughout the City of Calgary for FREE.
We’d like to sincerely thank the City of Calgary for supporting circular food economy initiatives, and for helping to inspire youth to take environmental action, through education.
Interested in bringing the EcoCooks program into your classroom? Register now for programming this Spring while space remains.
What is EcoCooks: Food Waste?
EcoCooks: Food Waste is a multi-workshop series that introduces food waste to youth at an age where they can start to take actions in their own lives and bring information and skills home with them to share with their family. Students learn about how food waste contributes to climate change, where and why food is wasted, and finally the role of the consumer in reducing food waste and enhancing circularity.
Through hands-on activities, games and food preparation, youth develop the skills needed to take individual circular actions such as - reducing, repurposing, refusing, food preservation, composting and more. Participants will leave workshops with a better understanding of what actions they can take for a circular food economy, but also why those actions are so important. All EcoCooks programs have four main goals, to enhance knowledge, develop skills, inspire action and build community.