It estimates that this industry is five times more energy-intensive than other retail, office and lodging industries, and that the average restaurant uses , gallons of water per year.
Chicago consumers, she said, also appeared to be seeking information about which restaurants and food service operators were leading the charge. With GS, both food-service operators and Chicago consumers can find the information and help they seek. The research conducted by the University of Chicago played an influential role in bringing that about. To date, eight Chicago restaurants have been certified with 13 more currently undergoing the certification process. With the national release of the new certification, it is expected that more restaurants around the country will adopt the green standard.
The University of Chicago Program on Global Environment and Environment, Agriculture and Food working group have continued to work with the Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition, and students are currently compiling a sustainability checklist for restaurants.
The groups plan to collaborate again in through another practicum-style series of courses on a related, but distinct, topic. Top Stories. Why green certification for restaurants? GS examines each area of a food service operation, be it a restaurant, a retail outlet or other operation, according to its potential impact on the environment. In , GCRC posed a research question about how to better encourage other food service operators to increase their sustainability efforts and at the same time communicate those efforts through transparent third party certification.
Sabina Shaikh and offered in the Winter and Spring quarters of In the first quarter, they worked with Shaikh to examine every existing domestic standard for sustainable food service certification. At the end of the quarter, the students produced a report containing valuable information not just about the use of resources in the industry as a whole but also about favorable consumer preferences towards businesses that were environmentally responsible.
The students concluded that GS could be modified into something resembling the certification standard that the GCRC inquired about. Shaikh noted that the opportunity for students to work on real-world problems was an important benefit of the project as well. You take the BA colloquium the Fall quarter of your senior year. There is an additional optional Winter colloquium, to help you continue to make progress on your thesis. You will be required to submit a topic form the Spring of your third year, that includes a title or a topic for your thesis and indicates who your faculty thesis adviser will be.
One of these readers must be a faculty member any individual who has taught at least one stand-alone course at the University of Chicago , and the other is the BA preceptor assigned to you at the start of your second year. You can find a comprehensive list of approved courses here. In order to determine which track the course is approved for, or if it is an environmental science course, please sort the spreadsheet by track , or column E.
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