Episode 120: Redefining Sustainability
About the Podcast
8 minutes of this “Candid Clancy” episode will allow you to reimagine how you see the term “sustainability”. Let’s break it down!
About Clancy Harrison
As a registered dietitian, TEDx speaker, international speaker, and author, Clancy Harrison challenges the way food insecurity is approached in the US. Her mission to demolish the stigma around healthy food access places her on the cutting edge of advocacy.
Clancy is the founder of the Food Dignity® Project, a strategic program for leaders who want to shift how they approach nutrition outreach by making healthy food access a priority. She transforms the lives of thousands of people through her work with corporations, non-profit organizations, and universities.
Currently, Clancy is an advisory board member for the Pennsylvania American Academy of Pediatrics Food Insecurity EPIC program, Ambassador of the National Dairy Council, and the President of the Al Beech West Side Food Pantry. Since the onset of COVID-19 Clancy has distributed nearly 1 million meals in her community to improve access to healthy food through effective collaborations.
Discussion Takeaways
- Many times, we think of the environmental component of sustainability but not the other factors that impact it. The missing items include economic and social elements. By bridging all these pillars, think how differently implementation of social supports and other programs in our community would be.
- Here are the pillars of sustainability:
- Environmental Sustainability means that we’re living within the means of our natural resources.
- Economic Sustainability requires entities and institutions to use their resources responsibly so that they can produce an operational profit now and in the long term.
- Social Sustainability focuses on the ability of society, or any social system, to persistently achieve a good sense of wellbeing for all.
#1 tip to improve access to healthy food
- There are three pillars of sustainability—environmental, economic and social—that we need to bring to light.
Each week on the Food Dignity® Podcast, the Food Dignity® Movement's Clancy Harrison hosts a wide variety of hunger experts and other people making changes on the frontlines. Join us as we dive deep into conversations that will change the way you think about food insecurity.
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