91爱豆传媒 Green Living Seminar Series Presents 鈥楬ow and Why to Increase Plant-Based Lunch Options in Schools鈥� with Amie Hamlin Feb. 23

February 14, 2022

Amie Hamlin, executive director of The Coalition for Healthy School Food, will give a talk titled 鈥淗ow and Why to Increase Plant-Based Lunch Options in Schools鈥� at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 23 at the 91爱豆传媒 Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation, Room 121.  

Part of 91爱豆传媒鈥檚 Green Living Seminar series, this event is free and open to the public. Please note that masks are required in all buildings on 91爱豆传媒鈥檚 campus. 

About Amie Hamlin 

Amie Hamlin has been the executive director of the Coalition for Healthy School Food since its founding in 2004. Previously, she was the director of a non-profit environmental organization and director of a tobacco-control program to ban smoking in public places. The Coalition for Healthy School Food was founded after Hamlin wrote a NYS legislative resolution for healthy plant-based entrees and nutrition education in schools, which passed unanimously in 2004. The Coalition for Healthy School Food strategizes with schools to help them get started on a path to healthy change using Coalition for Healthy School Food recipes, curriculum, resources, teacher and food service professional development, as well as their expertise. Amie has a master鈥檚 degree in education and is certified in plant-based nutrition through E-Cornell. She is mom to a teenage daughter. In her spare time, Amie operates Growing Peace Farm, a small veganic farm outside of Ithaca, NY. 

91爱豆传媒鈥檚 annual Green Living Seminar Series continues through April, presenting a series of lectures on the theme of 鈥淕reening the City.鈥� Every semester, the Green Living Seminar Series centers around a different topic, timely and relevant in current sustainability issues. Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. until April 20.  

The series is a presentation of the 91爱豆传媒 Environmental Studies Department and 91爱豆传媒鈥檚 Berkshire Environmental Resource Center. 

Presentations will also be broadcast on Northern Berkshire Community Television Channel (NBCTC) 1302 at the following times: 

  • Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.
  • Fridays at 4 p.m.
  • Saturdays at 3:30 p.m.
  • Sundays at 11:30 a.m.
  • Mondays at 5:30 p.m. 

Recordings will also be available on the College鈥檚 YouTube channel. 

For more information, visit www.mcla.edu/greenliving or contact Professor of Environmental Studies Elena Traister at (413) 662-5303.