{"id":18878,"date":"2013-02-05T09:28:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T13:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?p=56641"},"modified":"2016-06-14T14:38:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T18:38:45","slug":"eagle-dining-wins-green-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2013\/02\/05\/eagle-dining-wins-green-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagle Dining Wins Green Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Mary Washington\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/umwdining.com\/index.html\">Eagle Dining<\/a> has been awarded The Marstel-Day and Stafford Printing Green Frontier Award, which celebrates excellence in green business practices. Eagle Dining was one of five local businesses honored at the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce\u2019s annual gala on Friday, Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/05\/eagle-dining-wins-green-award\/photographed-april-20-2010-photo-by-norm-shafer-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56651\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56651\" title=\"Photographed April 20, 2010. (Photo by Norm Shafer)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/Eagle-Dining_Seacobeck-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eagle Dining, which is managed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sodexofoundation.org\/hunger_us\/default.asp\">Sodexo<\/a>, has undertaken many sustainability initiatives, including purchasing locally sourced seafood and produce, reducing the use of paper goods and creating a \u201cGo Green\u201d meal plan. Every \u201cGo Green\u201d meal plan purchased by students donates $5 to a sustainability grant fund. UMW students can apply for the grant funds to support on-campus sustainability efforts. Eagle Dining has also been named a green restaurant as part of the Virginia Green initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the lead of our parent corporation, Sodexo, our team is committed to reducing our carbon footprint and providing highly sustainable and eco-friendly food services at the University of Mary Washington,\u201d said Kori Dean, general manager of Eagle Dining. \u201cIt is extremely gratifying to have those efforts recognized by such a prestigious organization. We will continue to look for the practices that will help us to be not only one of the best campus dining operations in the Commonwealth, but also one of the most sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several of Eagle Dining\u2019s philanthropic efforts have included work with Dinners for the Homeless and STOP Hunger. In November 2012 the Eagle Dining sponsored campus-wide food drive collected more than 3,000 pounds of food for the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank and Presbyterian Food Pantry. For more information about Eagle Dining by Sodexo\u2019s community outreach, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/umwdining.com\/community\/index.html\">http:\/\/umwdining.com\/community\/index.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Local businesses Reality Realty Professionals, the Title Professional LLC, NSWC Federal Credit Union and the Rappahannock Electric Cooperative also received awards at the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce\u2019s gala.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong># # #<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>News release prepared by:\u00a0 Julia Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Mary Washington\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/umwdining.com\/index.html\">Eagle Dining<\/a> has been awarded The Marstel-Day and Stafford Printing Green Frontier Award, which celebrates excellence in green business practices. Eagle Dining was one of five local businesses honored at the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce\u2019s annual gala on Friday, Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56651\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/05\/eagle-dining-wins-green-award\/photographed-april-20-2010-photo-by-norm-shafer-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56651\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56651\" title=\"Photographed April 20, 2010. (Photo by Norm Shafer)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/Eagle-Dining_Seacobeck-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eagle Dining at UMW received the The Marstel-Day and Stafford Printing Green Frontier Award from the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Eagle Dining, which is managed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sodexofoundation.org\/hunger_us\/default.asp\">Sodexo<\/a>, has undertaken many sustainability initiatives, including purchasing locally sourced seafood and produce, reducing the use of paper goods and creating a \u201cGo Green\u201d meal plan. Every \u201cGo Green\u201d meal plan purchased by students donates $5 to a sustainability grant fund. UMW students can apply for the grant funds to support on-campus sustainability efforts. Eagle Dining has also been named a green restaurant as part of the Virginia Green initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the lead of our parent corporation, Sodexo, our team is committed to reducing our carbon footprint and providing highly sustainable and eco-friendly food services at the University of Mary Washington,\u201d said Kori Dean, general manager of Eagle Dining. \u201cIt is extremely gratifying to have those efforts recognized by such a prestigious organization. We will continue to look for the practices that will help us to be not only one of the best campus dining operations in the Commonwealth, but also one of the most sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several of Eagle Dining\u2019s philanthropic efforts have included work with Dinners for the Homeless and STOP Hunger. In November 2012 the Eagle Dining sponsored campus-wide food drive collected more than 3,000 pounds of food for the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank and Presbyterian Food Pantry. For more information about Eagle Dining by Sodexo\u2019s community outreach, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/umwdining.com\/community\/index.html\">http:\/\/umwdining.com\/community\/index.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Local businesses Reality Realty Professionals, the Title Professional LLC, NSWC Federal Credit Union and the Rappahannock Electric Cooperative also received awards at the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce\u2019s gala.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong># # #<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>News release prepared by:\u00a0 Julia Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5991,"featured_media":7047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[80,116],"tags":[8994,839,874,8919],"class_list":{"0":"post-18878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newsletter-latest-news","8":"category-whats-new-umw","9":"tag-eagle-dining","10":"tag-sodexo","11":"tag-sustainability","12":"tag-umw-dining-services","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5991"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}