Climate Neutrality Goal Could Benefit The Meadville EconomyThe Campus
As part of its goal to achieve climate neutrality by the year 2020, Allegheny College has made an agreement with Parkhurst Dining, its contracted food provider, that at least 20 to 30 percent of the food it provides to the college are locally grown, according to Kelly Boulton, Allegheny’s sustainability coordinator.
“You’re supporting individual families, you’re supporting the community and then I think more on the Parkhurst scale, I think it certainly has an impact of supporting larger companies like Turner Dairy, where we get all of our milk, and that’s a regional dairy that also has better practices than some of the other larger milk [companies,]” Boulton said.
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