Modeling Sustainability Campus Best Practices Yale University Meatless Mondays

Why Meatless? A Worldwatch Institute study from 2009 found that animal factory farming collectively creates up to 51% of all greenhouse gases on the planet. Crops needed to feed farm animals use almost 50% of US water supply and a whopping 80% of US agricultural land. Farm animals - not people - consume 70% of total US grain production.

Why Monday? Lots of other campuses are doing it Yale Johns Hopkins

How did I find out about it? Melina Shannon Di-Pietro Executive Director, Yale Sustainable Food Project When started? 2008 How? Athletes and Food Services Folks Competition Better amongst living learning communities

Could we do it at Regis? Yes! Good fit to mission Perhaps we could try it through Lent? Sign the Meatless Mondays pledge I’ll bet we can do better than UC Davis! Advantages? - Costs nothing Disadvantages? - Difficult to get people to change