LibGuides: Science of Food (CUSC-120): Sustainability Resources

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Environmental Studies and Policy Collection (NOVELNY) This link opens in a new window
The Environmental Studies & Policy Collection is a digital resource that answers inquiries about environmental concerns with coverage of more than 5.4 million articles from more than 300 journals and book reference content from Delmar, including Soil, Science, and Management; Introduction to Agronomy; Food, Crops, & Environment; Fundamental Soil Science; and more.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Offers researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Featured Books

Encyclopedia of Sustainability
Call Number: Reference (3rd Floor) GE10 .C65 2010
Encyclopedia of Organic, Sustainable, and Local Food
Call Number: REFERENCE HD9005 .E645 2010
Green Food : an A-to-Z guide by Dustin Mulvaney (Editor)
Call Number: REFERENCE TD195.F57 G74 2011
Sustainability by Leslie Paul Thiele
Call Number: HC79.E5 T4759 2013
Balancing on a Planet : the future of food and agriculture by David A. Cleveland
Call Number: HD9000.5 .C585 2014
Food Justice by Robert Gottlieb; Anupama Joshi
Call Number: HD9000.5 .G675 2010
Feeding frenzy : the new politics of food by Paul McMahon
Call Number: HD9000.5 .M35 2013
Sustainable Food Systems : building a new paradigm by Terry Marsden (Editor); Adrian Morley (Editor)
Call Number: HD9000.5 .S834 2014
The Locavore Way : discover and enjoy the pleasures of locally grown food by Amy Cotler
Call Number: HD9005 .C67 2009
Local: The New Face of Food and Farming in America by Douglas Gayeton
Call Number: HD9005 .G39 2014
Fair Food : growing a healthy, sustainable food system for all by Oran B. Hesterman
Call Number: HD9005 .H47 2011
Fair Trade, Sustainability and Social Change by Ian Hudson; Mark Hudson; Mara Fridell
Call Number: HF1379 .H855 2013
Food and Urbanism : the convivial city and a sustainable future by Susan Parham
Call Number: HT241 .P357 2015 & eBook
Dandelion Hunter : foraging the urban wilderness by Rebecca Lerner
Call Number: QK98.5.U6 L47 2013
One Billion Hungry : can we feed the world? by Gordon Conway; Katy Wilson
Call Number: S494.5.I5 C663 2012
Food and the City : urban agriculture and the new food revolution by Jennifer Cockrall-King
Call Number: S494.5.U72 C63 2012
Organic Struggle : the movement for sustainable agriculture in the United States by Brian K. Obach
Call Number: S605.5 .O23 2015
Making Seafood Sustainable by Mansel G. Blackford
Call Number: SH136.S88 B53 2012
Change Comes to Dinner : how vertical farmers, urban growers, and other innovators are revolutionizing how America eats by Katherine Gustafson
Call Number: TD195.F57 G87 2012

U.S Government & International Resources

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

United Nations

Sustainable Food Resources

Chefs Collaborative Chefs Collaborative is a national nonprofit network with a mission to inspire, educate, and celebrate chefs and food professionals building a better food system. A network of like-minded chefs and food professionals across the country who care about sourcing, cooking, and serving better food.
Green Restaurant Association
FoodRoutes Network FoodRoutes Network, LLC (FRN) provides communications tools, technical support, networking and information resources to organizations nationwide that are working to rebuild local, community-based food systems. FRN is dedicated to reintroducing Americans to their food – the seeds it grows from, the farmers who produce it, and the routes that carry it from the fields to their tables.
Growing Power Since 1993, Growing Power is a national nonprofit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds, and the environments in which they live, by helping to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food for people in all communities. Growing Power implements this mission by providing hands-on training, on-the-ground demonstration, outreach and technical assistance through the development of Community Food Systems that help people grow, process, market and distribute food in a sustainable manner.
Seafood Choices Alliance Seafood Choices Alliance is an international program that provides leadership and creates opportunities for change across the seafood industry and ocean conservation community. Their mission is to mobilize market forces in the global seafood sector, catalyzing positive action in support of ocean conservation. Seafood Choices helps the seafood industry— from fishermen and fish farmers to processors, distributors, retailers, restaurants, and food service providers —to make the seafood marketplace environmentally, economically and socially sustainable. Seafood Choices is mobilizing and connecting world leaders who support action for a sustainable supply of seafood and healthy oceans through responsible business, management, policy, and regulation.
FishChoice Through collaboration with environmental non-profit organizations and seafood industry leaders, FishChoice creates tools and relationships to make commercial procurement of sustainable seafood products easier and to expand the outreach and effectiveness of the sustainable seafood movement. FishChoice.com is an online, sustainable seafood sourcing tool that connects retail, restaurant, and institutional seafood buyers to suppliers of sustainable seafood products. It also helps sustainable aquaculture operations and wild fisheries that utilize environmentally responsible fishing methods find markets for their products.
Sustainable Food News Online news and market information source for foodservice and retail food professionals seeking a keen understanding of the burgeoning consumer demand for sustainable, local, organic and natural food and beverages, as well as business practices that support sustainability's triple-bottom line: people, planets and profits.