Substituting plant-based foods for meat and dairy is critical to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, misperceptions about the taste, cost and health aspects of a plant-based diet pose barriers to community educators hoping to influence people’s eating habits.
In this grant project, undergraduates in Environment & Sustainability and Information Science majors will work with community partners to promote plant-rich diet as a means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Working with community partners in New York state and Barcelona, Spain, students will conduct consumer surveys, taste test plant-rich recipes and produce videos, websites, apps and other media to make recipes and plant-rich diet educational materials accessible to audiences.
- Marianne Krasny, Department of Natural Resources
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Elizabeth Fox, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences and Master of Public Health Program
College of Veterinary Medicine
- Heather Kolakowski, School of Hotel Administration
SC Johnson College of Business
- René Kizilcec, Department of Information Science
Computing and Information Science
- Joan Paddock, Department of Nutritional Sciences
College of Human Ecology
- Wendy Wolfe, Department of Nutritional Sciences
College of Human Ecology
- Anne Armstrong, natural resources
- Community partner: Cornell Cooperative Extension of Warren County
- Community partner: Sustainable Tapas
- Marianne Krasny, Department of Natural Resources
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Elizabeth Fox, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences and Master of Public Health Program
College of Veterinary Medicine
- Heather Kolakowski, School of Hotel Administration
SC Johnson College of Business
- René Kizilcec, Department of Information Science
Computing and Information Science
- Joan Paddock, Department of Nutritional Sciences
College of Human Ecology
- Wendy Wolfe, Department of Nutritional Sciences
College of Human Ecology
- Anne Armstrong, natural resources
- Community partner: Cornell Cooperative Extension of Warren County
- Community partner: Sustainable Tapas
Funding teams that are integrating community-engaged learning into new and existing curricula