Since 2012, Worldchefs sustainable initiative, Feed The Planet has continuously driven sustainable changes across continents via its extended network of supporters and volunteers. In order torecognize and celebrate the tireless contribution of chefs, educators and enthusiasts who help to drive our sustainable efforts, Worldchefs has created the Feed The Planet Championprogram.
Have you been teaching kids about sustainable food habits? Have you been tracking and reducing waste in your kitchen? Are you an avid follower of Worldchefs’ monthly Sustainability Around the World webcast? If so, your ongoing efforts to promote and practice culinary sustainability will now be rewarded in the form of a digital badgeand certificate issued by Worldchefs Feed The Planet.
With 3 levels of recognition, Feed The Planet Champion provides a credible record of your growing dedication to sustainability, starting from Awareness (Level 1) to Promotion (Level 2) and Engagement (Level 3). The application process is free of charge, in accordance with the criteria listed below.
The application process is simple: choose a level that best fits your experiences and submit your evidences (photos, screenshots, certificates, documents, etc.).The application criteria are also downloadable HERE.
If you have any question, please reach out to Linh To, Feed The Planet Coordinator at [email protected].
Feed the Planet is an initiative founded by Worldchefs to inspire sustainable food consumption among communities and culinary professionals as well as to support people in need through education. Powered by Electrolux Food Foundation and AIESEC, the vision of Feed The Planet manifests in 4 major projects: Like A Chef, Food Heroes Challenge, Food Waste Challenge and Sustainability Education for Culinary Professionals. Since May 2020, the webcast Sustainability Around the World hosted by chef Chris Koetke is broadcasted, featuring outstanding culinary sustainability enthusiasts across continents.
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Feed the Planet is an initiative to inspire sustainable food consumption among communities and culinary professionals. Founded by Worldchefs, it is run in partnership with Electrolux Food Foundation and AIESEC.
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“If kitchens are the heartbeat of the home, restaurants are the heartbeat of the nation.” Chef Kwame Onwuachi, Independent Restaurant Coalition
This is an unprecedented time for our world and our industry. But through it all, what we’ve seen from our community is an inspiration. Cooking for those on the front lines, joining voices to advocate for the collective, sharing recipes and messages of hope: together, one heartbeat.
Worldchefs wishes you all health, hope, and resilience during this time. Read on for news, resources, and ways to get involved.
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Worldchefs and our Feed the Planet partners have developed a free webinar to help our community bolster their resumes and bring sustainable practices to foodservice. Join Chef Chris Koetke beginning next week for a 7-day series on Sustainability Education for Culinary Professionals. Learn more and register here. This webinar is the introductory version of Worldchefs Sustainability Education for Culinary Professionals. Apply to deliver the full version at your schools or workplace here.
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During this time of challenge and difficulty caused by COVID-19, we want you to know that we are there with you and will continue to support you in any way possible. When the quarantine restrictions are over, it will be time once again to help those less fortunate and share our goodwill and consideration for others through a combination of passion, dedication and culinary skills.
As always, we will stand together and support each other. We will find a way to overcome the difficult times and despair caused by this pandemic. Together, let us do what we can, no matter how little or grand, to be that helping hand amidst this global crisis. Let us show compassion and consideration to our neighbors and in our local communities.
Families throughout the world will be seeking assistance and we will be there to support and offer our help because that is who we are and what we do. After all, we are a community of chefs, a global fraternity bonded by our profession in “the white jacket”.
In closing, I would like to personally thank you for everything you have done and will continue to do for Worldchefs, the chefs in your association, their families and the people in your communities. Your time and contributions are always recognized, appreciated and will be forever remembered.
May God bless you and your family. May you always believe in the “power of the white jacket”.
With Sincere Culinary Regards, Thomas A. Gugler
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Feed the Planet is an initiative to inspire sustainable food consumption among communities and culinary professionals. Founded by Worldchefs, it is run in partnership with Electrolux Food Foundation and AIESEC.
Sustainability Education for Culinary Professionals: Online Webinar Series
Chefs are experts at making every crisis an opportunity. During these times of challenge caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is no different. While it is a time of great uncertainty, our industry is one of resilience and grit. Worldchefs encourages chefs to take this time to focus on what can be done to build a better future.
Worldchefs has developed a free introductory webinar to help our community bolster their resumes and bring sustainable practices to foodservice. The Sustainability Education for Culinary Professionals teaches chefs how to think and act sustainably, to lead positive change for the planet – and for the improved profitability in the kitchen. The curriculum was developed by Worldchefs as a Feed the Planet initiative, powered by our partners Electrolux Food Foundation and AIESEC.
This 7 day introductory webinar series is hosted by Chef Chris Koetke, Chairman of the Feed The Planet Committee, and covers 7 important topics:
Day 1 (2PM – 3PM CET, 15 April 2020) – Introduction to Sustainability
Day 2 (2 PM – 2:45 PM CET, 16 April 2020) – Agriculture
Day 3 (2 PM – 2:45 PM CET, 17 April 2020) – Animal Husbandry
Day 4 (2 PM – 2:45 PM CET, 20 April 2020) – Seafood
Day 5 (2 PM – 2:45 PM CET, 21 April 2020) – Energy
Day 6 (2 PM – 2:45 PM CET, 22 April 2020) – Water
Day 7 (2 PM – 2:45 PM CET, 23 April 2020)- Waste Management
A Feed The Planet certificate will only be issued to participants who complete all 7 seminars.
If you missed a lesson, you can re-watch the recording and take the daily quiz to validate your attendance and claim your certificate at the end of the series.
This webinar is the introductory version of Worldchefs Sustainability Education for Culinary Professional. You can apply to deliver the full version of our curriculum at your schools/workplaces/culinary institutions here.
As President Gugler said, “When the quarantine restrictions are over, it will be time once again to help those less fortunate and share our goodwill and consideration for others through a combination of passion, dedication, and culinary skills.” Join us for this webinar and learn strategies to help take on climate change.
Key Information
Format: 7-day webinar series (60 min for Day 1 and 45 min for Day 2-7)
Platform: Zoom
Time: 2PM CET (14:00 CET)
Dates: 15 April to 17 April and 20 April to 23 April (7 days, excluding weekends)
Register: CLICK HEREto complete the registration form. Once completed, we will be in touch with access information.
The series comprises of 7 webinars of approximately 1 hour each for 7 days. The first webinar starts at 2 PM (CET) on Wednesday, 15 April 2020 and the last webinar starts at 2 PM (CET) on Thursday, 23 April 2020. We don’t organize webinars during the weekend (Saturday 18 April 2020 and Sunday 19 April 2020).
The Zoom link provided is the same for all webinars in the series.However, please make sure you choose all the seminar dates when registering on our website to gain daily access. It is recommended that you add the webinar series to your calendar to keep track.
3. Zoom and security concern:
We understand your concern about the emerging security issues of Zoom. After reviewing alternatives, we believe Zoom is still a reliable solution for this webinar series.
Should you have a suggestion on the platform we can use for our next webinar, feel free to reach out to us.
Please see below articles regarding Zoom’s efforts to ensure your cybersecurity:
As Zoom has limited capacity to host webinar participants, the session will also be live-streamed on Worldchefs’ official Facebook Page. If you can’t join the webinar because the session is full, visit our Facebook/Youtube channel and fill in the on-site attendance form and daily test. A digital badge and certificate will be issued to participants joining all 7 webinars on whichever platform once we have your attendance verified.
5. Attendance & Certificate:
If you joined us via Zoom, your attendance is verified automatically.
“Nowadays, there are two conceptions about sustainability that are wrong. The one that bothers me most is when people think that this is a trend and not a responsibility or a commitment. I understand that it is a great responsibility to think about the future, about what we are going to leave behind and what we are doing to our own environment. But it’s a problem and if we don’t start working on it and solving it today, there will be no solution tomorrow. We have barely enough time.”
Feed the Planet is an initiative to inspire sustainable food consumption among communities and culinary professionals. Founded by Worldchefs, it is run in partnership with Electrolux Food Foundation and AIESEC.
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13 days till IKA/Culinary Olympics! Visit Worldchefs Village in the heart of the competition area, Hall C2. Join us for Get Together parties with judges and competitors at our guest lounge every day to maximize your networking opportunities. Check out expert demos and tastings every 30 minutes. Experience all this and more at Worldchefs Village! Interested in exhibiting at the next Worldchefs Village? Learn how here.
Get your Congress 2020 tickets at a discounted price in honor of IKA! Now through February, you can save up to €200. In a group of 10 or more? Book together and save. For groups of 10 or more, every 10th ticket comes FREE! “Attending the Congress will give you the information and contacts to power up your career,” says James Beard award-winning chef & father of American Cuisine, Jeremiah Tower. Network with Jeremiah and chefs from around the globe at Congress 2020, where chefs meet!
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Choose from our Introduction to Tea Certificate Course to acquire a basic understanding of Tea since its inception to now, or our Fundamentals to Tea Course which provides knowledge on tea and how you could use tea to enhance guest experiences in the hospitality sector.
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Paris, France · 7 January 2020 · Feed the Planet 2019 Achievements
Greetings Chefs!
Over the course of 2019, the Feed the Planet Committee and its partner organizations, Electrolux and AIESEC, have been hard at work addressing issues of global sustainability. I am very proud of the work that we have collectively achieved. There are so many stories of Worldchefs members who have stepped up and consciously made a decision to get involved and make a difference. These efforts are so encouraging!
So by the numbers, this represents some of the achievements of 2019:
We taught over 30,249 children about sustainable eating through the Food Heroes Challenge.
We now have 7 Like A Chef teaching centers open in 6 countries where we teach free 2-month culinary modules to help the world’s disenfranchised find employment in the foodservice sector.
Over 800 culinary students completed Worldchefs Sustainability Education for Culinary Professionals curriculum.
As members of Worldchefs, you can share in celebrating these results. It is only through the sum of our individual activities that we can make a difference. And remember, every effort, no matter how small or big, to make our world and our profession more sustainable is a step in the right direction.
As 2020 begins to unfold before us, please reach out to the Feed the Planet committee if you want to get more involved. We welcome all efforts!!
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