By Katie Irwin, FALPC Intern As you may remember from our May Newsletter, the Hunger in America 2014 study (aka “the Hunger Study”) has been going on since April of this year. It is part of a national study being conducted by Feeding America, and locally the Worcester County Food Bank is coordinating the Worcester […]
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Low-Wage Jobs & Obesity
By Liz Sheehan Castro and Kristina Kalolo, FALPC Intern In 2012 the Mass Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) along with the Boston Worker’s Alliance, and the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace released a report detailing the linkages between the working conditions in low-wage jobs and obesity. This […]
Kindergarteners on the Farm!
By Isabel Burgess and Lauren Wetherbee, Worcester Kindergarten Initiative It’s been a busy year at the Worcester Kindergarten Initiative! The initiative, which is facilitated by the Massachusetts Farm to School Project in conjunction with the Worcester Public Schools, is a multidisciplinary nutritional education program that aims to teach kindergarteners about healthy eating and local farms […]
Dear young driver in Newton Square, streets aren’t just for cars.
Biking through Newton Square from June Street today on my way to my daughter’s school, I made the completely legal move of rounding the rotary with the intention of exiting onto Newton Ave. The road was wide open with almost no traffic, so I was very surprised to hear a young woman driver behind me yell […]
NEW Worcester Reports on Urban Ag and School Foodscapes!
Thanks to the hard work of students at Worcester Polytech Institute that participate in the Sustainable Food Systems Project Center we have two new great reports to share. Students that write these reports spend a whole academic year doing research in the community on a topic that we identify with them and their professors. Both […]