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Seasons Greetings! Check out our December newsletter to learn about volunteering with FoPo and new job opportunities!

FoPo eNews December 2015 Seasons Greetings ❄ Rolling Basis Mentors are needed for the UChicago Sustainable Food Enterprise Lab, an undergrad practicum in the Environmental Studies program during the Winter quarter. In the practicum, student teams will do consulting projects for clients (see below), focusing on the connection between food busin…

Happy Thanksgiving from FoPo! After you feast with family and friends today, we hope you read these tips on how to reduce holiday food waste before throwing those leftovers in the trash.

Happy Thanksgiving! Your Turkey Leftovers Are Destroying The Planet. Thirty-five percent of turkey is wasted. Here's how to keep yours from winding up in a landfill.

"Brinshore is codeveloping the site with the Michaels Development Organization and the Cabrini-Green Local Advisory Council. The project will contain 84 residential units, 26 of which will be public housing units that contribute to the 700 overall units the CHA promised to build in the area in a legally binding agreement with former residents signed in 2000. The project's 26 affordable units will also apply to the promised overall tally. The remainder of the units will be market.

'We see it as a bridge between the income groups,' Levavi says. 'Everybody loves food, everybody likes getting their hands dirty. There's no such thing as low-income farming. It's just farming.'"

Can City Farm outlast the redevelopment of Cabrini-Green? Chicago's oldest farm is moving—again.

Our first event of the year is this Thursday! Come to our welcome event on October 1 at 12pm (room 140C) to learn more about FoPo.

RSVP to get a count for lunch. RSVP link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uaqNL0zCJ1t52H5jnK8jzZ6cu1_yNliD8JndZKgvDRg/viewform?c=0&w=1