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10/07/2026

46% plant-based and 100% committed to a better future! 🌱🍽️

For the 6th year in a row, Emory University has been named a top performer in the Sustainable Campus Index. From swapping single-use plastics for reusable stainless steel containers to stocking a campus Community Fridge to fight food insecurity, Emory is showing how higher ed can lead the way! 🌍✨

Currently, approximately 25% of Emory’s total annual food and beverage expenditures go to products that are sustainably or ethically produced. Meanwhile, 46% of total annual food and beverage expenditures are on plant-based foods.

“Emory demonstrates what is possible when sustainability is embedded into institutional priorities and translated into measurable action, helping raise the bar for higher education as a whole.” -Meghan Fay Zahniser, AASHE Executive Director

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10/05/2026

Is the future of food one where we replace factory farming with cultivated and plant-based meat? 🤔🥩

Join us for a candid conversation between Better Food Foundation Executive Director Jennifer Channin and Good Food Institute Founder Bruce Friedrich as they unpack his book, Meat, and demystify the future of alternative proteins.

They will dig right into the pragmatic questions that matter most to people trying to create a better food system:

📉 What is the actual pathway to displacing factory-farmed meat, especially with recent dips in U.S. plant-based sales?
💰 With cultivated and plant-based meats competing for market share, can our movement afford to let them compete for philanthropic funding and media coverage?
🗣️ How can sustainable food advocates talk about alternative proteins more effectively?

Whether you are a food systems, sustainability, or climate advocate, or just curious about the future of food, you won’t want to miss this.

🗓️ Date: October 28, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM PST
💬 Bring your questions for the live Q&A!
🔗 Register at the link in our bio!

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10/01/2026

We’re joining the University of San Diego’s Center for Food Systems Transformation for “Building Your Support Network: NGOs Helping Campuses Advance Plant-Rich Dining” at AASHE26 in Baltimore, MD. 🌱

Dr. Aaron Gross opens with the full map of NGOs supporting campus food systems change. Then you’ll rotate through small-group stations with Better Food Foundation, Greener by Default, PlantFutures, and Humane World for Animals to find your campus’s next move.

Mon, Oct 5 · 9 AM EST · Room Carroll. Come with your campus’s biggest food-systems question and leave with a concrete plan. 👇

Link in comments below.

09/29/2026

Ready to revolutionize your campus food system? 🍽️🌱 We are bringing the strategy, the data, and the behavioral science to make it happen!

Join us for two incredible, interactive sessions designed to change how universities eat:

🎓 **Driving Sustainable Campus Dining: A Student Framework for Plant-Rich Change**

Students are the ultimate drivers of campus transformation! Facilitated by Kenzie Bushman, Jessica Cohen, and Navin Durbhakula, this Student Learning Lab will help attendees build the tools to advocate for plant-rich menus that align with major campus climate goals and sustainability frameworks.

🧠 **From Theory to Plate: How Behavioral Science is Transforming Campus Dining**

Presented by the Greener by Default and the Better Food Foundation, this workshop dives into the psychology of choice architecture. Learn how campus leaders can use behavioral nudges to shift diners toward plant-forward options and lower emissions—cost-effectively!

Shoutout to our amazing collaborators, Dr. Shabnam Islam and Josh Adlerman with BFF’s Juli Schulz!

🙌 Let’s build a better food system together.

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09/24/2026

🎉 Welcome to the board, Cyle Zezo! 📺🌱

Cyle founded Reality of Change, created the ABCs of Climate Storytelling, and collaborated with the global environmental non-profit Rare and 30 major studios and production companies to develop The Greener Reality Pledge, a first-of-its-kind sustainability roadmap for the unscripted sector.

In 2025, Realscreen named him to its Factual Under 40 for his environmental leadership **in the unscripted industry.
Why it matters: food norms don’t just change in cafeterias — they change on screen. When millions watch people eat plant-forward, it starts to feel normal at home.

Cyle’s here to help us normalize the plant-forward food stories on screens. 💚

09/22/2026

icture every land animal on Earth on a giant scale. ⚖️ Humans and livestock pile up on one side — that’s over 98% of the weight. Rhinos, kangaroos, every wild animal combined? Under 2%.

That’s the picture Carrie Hutchison from painted on BFF’s Shifting Food Norms webinar during LA Climate Week this year. Our planet has basically become one giant pasture and feedlot for animal agriculture.

This isn’t about guilt-tripping anyone’s plate — it’s a wake-up call about the physical state of the Earth, and why shifting to plant-forward food systems matters way beyond personal taste.

🌎 Let’s prioritize serving the better solutions as the default.

👉 If you want to pick up the tools to do something about it, join a free Nudge Training, behavioral science for sustainable food systems. Link in bio. 🌱

09/17/2026

New York, here we come! Let’s connect!

The Better Food Foundation is heading to Climate Week NYC. We are so excited to connect with other advocates, leaders, and organizations working on a better future. You simply cannot talk about climate action without addressing food systems, and we are ready to bring plant-based solutions to the center of the conversation.

Will you be there? Let us know in the comments so we can meet up! 🗽🌍

09/15/2026

90 new faces. 70 campuses. One shared goal. 🌱
This week, we’re welcoming our biggest DefaultVeg Internship cohort yet — 90 students from 70 colleges and universities across the U.S. and Canada (16 of them grad students), all aiming to change what gets served where they eat, study, and live.

They’re picking up where our first 2025-26 cohort left off: 65 students, 39 campus wins this past spring. Zaryah Stroman helped Howard University become the first HBCU to drop its plant milk surcharge campus-wide.
Marielle Williamson’s oat milk pilot at Duke Kunshan University pushed sales up 140% in three weeks.
Ania Ting wrote and passed legislation creating a $10,000 Sustainable Food Fund at Emory.
And 88% of grads say they’re not stopping now and will continue the work.

1,000 students applied for a spot this fall. We accepted the top 90 who made the cut.

Welcome to the team — college food is about to get a lot better. 🫘

Link in bio for the full recap. 👆

09/10/2026

Know your impact. 🌱🫘

We just launched the Plant-Based Nudge Calculator, a free tool that shows how many meals could shift plant-based in your dining hall, coffee shop, or next campus event by using the top 5 plant-based nudges, plus the carbon emissions you’d save.

Enter a few numbers, pick a nudge (Plant-Based Defaults is the strongest lever, so start there), and get reliable data points for your next project. No research required.

Try it: link in bio 👆

09/09/2026

🙌 Huge shoutout to for taking the stage at to highlight the power of plant-based defaults and menu changes! 🌱🍽️

Shifting city-run institutions to prioritize plant-based defaults is how we normalize sustainable food systems and a healthy planet. He’ll be following cities like New York, West Hollywood, and Culver City who are making plant-based food a sustainability priority.

Ready to help make plant-based the default in your community? Hit the link in our bio to learn how to advocate for plant-forward food systems in your city today! 🍏✨

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