http://aes.fishandwhistle.net home of the aes and so at acadia university Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:12:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ever since I heard about fair trade upon my arrival to Wolfville, it had just made sense: farmers don't deserve the treatment they get from the middlemen, especially in the coffee industry; Fair Trade is a solution. However last year, when I was campaigning against a Tim Horton's franchise in ... http://aes.fishandwhistle.net/2009/09/economics-of-fair-trade/ Following last year's trayless Fridays and individual pledges not to use trays, Wheelock has finally made the switch. According to the press release, the initiative stems from a partnership between Students Affairs, the Arthur Irving Academy for the Environment, Facilities Management, Chartwells, and the Acadia Student Environment Network, but emphasizes ... http://aes.fishandwhistle.net/2009/09/wheelock-trayless/ Thanks to Jodie Noiles, Brynne Sinclair-Walters and Will Roberts (and others), Acadia's New Student Orientation is going green. The Orientation Schedule features green events such as the President's Trayless Lunch, two environmentally focused Special Interest Groups and a team of "Eco-Leaders" (in green t-shirts, of course) to provide information on ... http://aes.fishandwhistle.net/2009/09/acadia-orientation-goes-green/ According to a release by the ASU yesterday, the ASU is planning to "[move] forward with a self-operated food services model for implementation in September 2009." This will include operating a market, coffee shop and grille line for the coming year, with strategic discussions including "a food service survey followed ... http://aes.fishandwhistle.net/2009/05/asu-to-self-operate-market-coffeeshop-in-09/ This article isn't available online for some reason, so I had to look in the University archives to find it. Tim Horton's was mentioned breifly towards the end as something he would be looking into the option of. I'm disappointed that even from the getgo the ASU exec seemed pegged ... http://aes.fishandwhistle.net/2009/04/in-08-steele-runs-on-transparency-foodservice/ Do sheep blink? I'm not sure, but if they don't, that's about how the meeting went down. We learned some new information, and I'll try to summarize it the best I can. First, we learned what "legal issues" were preventing the ASU from telling anybody...anything? They articulated that in business contracts ... http://aes.fishandwhistle.net/2009/04/meeting-with-asu-exec-goes-down-not-unlike-a-staring-contest-between-two-sheep/ This is our bad. Amy looked over some old emails, and Kyle told Amy in passing about the letter of intent on March 10, about two weeks before I wrote the letter to Kyle and the Ath (March 24). I first saw this email today, and I'm sorry to the ... http://aes.fishandwhistle.net/2009/04/letter-of-intent-mentioned-in-march-10th-email/ Dear Kyle – I have recently been made aware of the ASU’s decision to contract with Tim Horton’s for food services in the SUB.  I feel compelled to register my disappointment and sense of despair that such a decision could be made at this point in Acadia’s history.  I will leave ... http://aes.fishandwhistle.net/2009/04/linda-lusby-to-kyle-steele/ http://aes.fishandwhistle.net/2009/04/an-interesting-observation/ The original copy can be found here. The ASU has been, and continues to be a democratically elected body, that makes democratic decisions based on student feedback.  Recently, it has been brought to the attention of the Executive that some confusion exists around the prospect of opening a Tim Horton's in ... http://aes.fishandwhistle.net/2009/04/asu-releases-message-concerning-food-services/