Healthy and Sustainable School Food Journalism Awards

Writing Resources

School Lunch

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New rules aim to get rid of junk foods in schools

In California, Students and Parents Prefer the New School Lunches

Debra Atlas: School lunch programs encourage healthy eating

Children who eat school lunches more likely to be overweight

Lines Grow Long for Free School Meals, Thanks to Economy

School Lunches: How The Food Industry Controls Student Meals

Do Healthier School Lunches Lead to Better Grades?

Several Minnesota & Wisconsin Schools Move Toward Healthy & Organic Lunches

New proposed USDA rules for the National School Lunch Program

Food Production & Costs

Farm Use of Antibiotics Defies Scrutiny

Food Production: The Issues

Food Production: The Issues -- Antibiotics

Food Production: The Issues – Hormones

Menu Can be Healthy for Kids Bottom Line

How the Food Industry Eats your Lunch

School Lunches: How The Food Industry Controls Student Meals

Consumer Reports scrutinizes antibiotic use in food production

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

School Nutrition: Targeting Junk-Food-Filled Vending Machines

Research on Nutrition and School Performance

Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Achievement Fact Sheet

Nutrition Key to Students Performance

So Long, Sloppy Joe: What's Cooking At School

Green Schools

Green & Healthy Space

Fresh Gets Invited to the Cool Table

Sowing the Seeds of Gardening

School Gardens Blooming Teach Lessons On Nutrition, Environment, Science, Teamwork

Local Food

Eat Local, Buy Local, Be Local

United States Department of Agriculture Farm to School

Is Local Food Better?

Local Produce Increasingly Preferred To Organic

Why Buy Local Foods and How Do Consumers, Small Farms and Businesses Become Empowered in This Era of Corporatization?

SAMPLE Opinion Article

Video explains healthy updates to school meals. http://ow.ly/h6gNO

What do healthy meals look like? Photos of a high school lunch in MD show they’re nutritious and filling. http://ow.ly/h6EYT

From calories, to fruits & veggies, to obesity prevention – here are 5 things you need to know about school meals: http://ow.ly/h6e56

Earth Day Network is proud to announce the winners of the nationwide Healthy and Sustainable School Food Journalism Awards! They represent a cross-section of U.S. high school students calling for greater focus on nutrition and the environment.

The winners were chosen in an anonymous process by best-selling author Michael Pollan and a panel of judges at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The six winners hail from Apopka, Florida; Portland, Oregon; Houston, Texas; Oakland, California; Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and Traverse City, Michigan.

Thanks to all the students who participated! Your reporting was an inspiration for our work fighting for healthier schools.

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