Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 46.59
Liaison Mari Acob-Nash
Submission Date Sept. 5, 2013
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STARS v1.1

North Seattle College
OP-6: Food and Beverage Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.20 / 6.00 Ian Siadak
Sustainability Coordinator
Office of the Vice Chancelor
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Percentage of food expenditures that meet one or more of the criteria for this credit (0 - 100):
35

A brief description of the sustainable food and beverage purchasing program:

Most of what we buy is served on the salad bar, wraps and sandwiches. We try to buy local greens such as lettuces, chard and kale. We also buy potatoes, turnips, beets and root veggies from Washington as well when we can. We buy Washington apples and grapes too. We serve quite a bit of beef beef and lamb products from this state too.

The lion's share of these points come from our coffee purchases. We source Fair Trade Coffee from Pura Vida and also just started purchasing a local food share for the college to introduce and educate about the benefits of supporting local farms.

Coffee
http://www.puravidacoffee.com/

Local Food Box
http://www.oxbow.org/csa.htm


The Website URL where information about the institution's sustainable food and beverage purchasing efforts is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Estimate of sustainable foods purchases comes from Food Services director Amanda Lopez-Castanon


Estimate of sustainable foods purchases comes from Food Services director Amanda Lopez-Castanon

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