Comments on: Wesleyan To Drop Tray http://www.wastedfood.com/2009/04/28/wesleyan-to-drop-tray/ a look at how America squanders nearly half of its food Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:08:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Maria M http://www.wastedfood.com/2009/04/28/wesleyan-to-drop-tray/comment-page-1/#comment-131971 Maria M Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:56:41 +0000 http://www.wastedfood.com/2009/04/28/wesleyan-to-drop-tray/#comment-131971 I agree with you Dan. Going trayless hasn't gotten the same attention as a "green" initiative that changing light bulbs or reusing shopping bags has gotten nationally. As some of the comments on Wesleying showed, many students don't see this as an environmental or food saving initiative and therefore don't see why their regular routine should be disturbed. Since Wesleyan is local to me, though, I'm glad to see it making these changes. I agree with you Dan. Going trayless hasn’t gotten the same attention as a “green” initiative that changing light bulbs or reusing shopping bags has gotten nationally. As some of the comments on Wesleying showed, many students don’t see this as an environmental or food saving initiative and therefore don’t see why their regular routine should be disturbed.

Since Wesleyan is local to me, though, I’m glad to see it making these changes.

]]> By: Dan Livingston http://www.wastedfood.com/2009/04/28/wesleyan-to-drop-tray/comment-page-1/#comment-130474 Dan Livingston Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:13:33 +0000 http://www.wastedfood.com/2009/04/28/wesleyan-to-drop-tray/#comment-130474 Trayless Tuesdeays savings turn into Filet Mignon Fridays; what better way to pat yourself on the back than with a juicy piece of the tender love-handle of a steer? I suspect the reason why your alma mater took so long to come around is because teaching environmentalism doesn't necessitate any substantive change in behavior. It's just like people who talk about opposing the wars that are driven by our thirst for oil, and continue to drive their cars. The speeches and the teachings don't lead your actions anywhere necessarily--those are steps that you have to decide to take and come from a different impulse altogether. You have to make a conscious decision to make changes every day, and it can take a long time to renegotiate habits you have been nurturing for years. At the end of the day, even if it looks like an environmentalist, sounds like an environmentalist, smells like an environmentalist and feels like an environmentalist, it doesn't mean that it acts like an environmentalist, and that's what going trayless is all about: challenging each person to change the way that they act. Peace and Love, Dan Trayless Tuesdeays savings turn into Filet Mignon Fridays; what better way to pat yourself on the back than with a juicy piece of the tender love-handle of a steer?

I suspect the reason why your alma mater took so long to come around is because teaching environmentalism doesn’t necessitate any substantive change in behavior. It’s just like people who talk about opposing the wars that are driven by our thirst for oil, and continue to drive their cars. The speeches and the teachings don’t lead your actions anywhere necessarily–those are steps that you have to decide to take and come from a different impulse altogether. You have to make a conscious decision to make changes every day, and it can take a long time to renegotiate habits you have been nurturing for years. At the end of the day, even if it looks like an environmentalist, sounds like an environmentalist, smells like an environmentalist and feels like an environmentalist, it doesn’t mean that it acts like an environmentalist, and that’s what going trayless is all about: challenging each person to change the way that they act.
Peace and Love,
Dan

]]> By: Michael Karelis http://www.wastedfood.com/2009/04/28/wesleyan-to-drop-tray/comment-page-1/#comment-130472 Michael Karelis Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:40:46 +0000 http://www.wastedfood.com/2009/04/28/wesleyan-to-drop-tray/#comment-130472 Wow, that's awesome! Too bad my younger brother just decided not to go there, lol. Wow, that’s awesome! Too bad my younger brother just decided not to go there, lol.

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