The Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking hosted a three day virtual event to help make the University of Calgary a zero waste campus. This event gave undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral scholars the opportunity to collaborate in teams or work independently to create a proposal that would help meet UCalgary’s zero waste goal by 2030.
The winners of this event were Team 8, Team 18, Team 19 and Team 13 whose project proposals involved a Zero Waste education app, turning MacHall waste-free, reducing paper usage on campus and using the reduce-reuse-recycle method through research.
From May 14 – 16, the Hunter Hub Solutions Lab gave participants the opportunity to hear from community speakers, attend proposal development workshops and attend feedback sessions with sustainability leaders from UCalgary.
Brandy Bobier, the founder of Community Helpers Unite. (Supplied)
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Growing up in the North End, the founder of Community Helpers Unite calls opening up a community kitchen heart work.
Brandy Bobier is the founder of Community Helpers Unite (CHU) a non-profit organization out of the North End in Winnipeg. She also runs Leftover Foundation Rescue Food. Leftovers is a food rescue agency that is a nationally recognized charity. We take food from donors like distributors, grocery stores, bakeries and coffee shops and redirect food that would otherwise be thrown in the garbage, says Bobier.
This food donated is good and edible but for supply or other reasons cannot be served. This also keeps extra food out of the landfills.
Brandy Bobier, the founder of Community Helpers Unite. (Supplied)
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Growing up in the North End, the founder of Community Helpers Unite calls opening up a community kitchen heart work.
Brandy Bobier is the founder of Community Helpers Unite (CHU) a non-profit organization out of the North End in Winnipeg. She also runs Leftover Foundation Rescue Food. Leftovers is a food rescue agency that is a nationally recognized charity. We take food from donors like distributors, grocery stores, bakeries and coffee shops and redirect food that would otherwise be thrown in the garbage, says Bobier.
This food donated is good and edible but for supply or other reasons cannot be served. This also keeps extra food out of the landfills.
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There’s an agency that takes food waste from Winnipeg businesses and gives it to various agencies for people to eat.
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There’s an agency that takes food waste from Winnipeg businesses and gives it to various agencies for people to eat.
The food waste is excess food that is still good to eat but can no longer be used, sold or served at a business. If not for the app, the food would likely end up in the landfill.
The Leftovers Foundation is one of Canada’s largest, tech-enabled food charities. It was started by Lourdes Juan in Calgary in 2012 and was established in Manitoba by Brandy Bobier last fall.
WINNIPEG A Winnipeg restaurant owner is stepping up to help others in the food service industry by offering to buy inventory from food courts, which are being forced to shut down their seating areas as part of public health orders. On Monday, the Manitoba government announced new public health restrictions, which include closing food courts in malls beginning on Wednesday. Under the new orders, the food court restaurants can remain open, but can only offer takeout. Manitobans can’t sit and eat at the food courts themselves. Now, Four Crowns Restaurant and Hotel, is offering to help out and buy food from those restaurants.