Utoday article: sustainable cooking lessons
In 2016, Alina van de Burgt and I designed a Dutch educational program centered on sustainability for vwo+ students through Twente Academy. Over the course of the year, as PALs (teaching assistants), we had given lectures on various sustainable topics, from cars to homes to waste management. Our goal with this particular module, which we designed ourselves, was to challenge the conventional understanding of sustainable food. The idea of “sustainability” is often overused, sometimes masking what it truly means....