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One Plate, One Planet represents
the following tenets, at a high level:
1. C
limate-smart dining operations. We are encouraged and motivated by the fact that food
plays a critical role in reversing global warming, from plant-forward menus to food waste
reduction, as well as the positive potential impact of the physical spaces where we all eat
and gather.
2. R
acial equity and supporting black businesses. Stanford Dining seeks to leverage its
institutional purchasing power to help reverse the disappearance of black farms. Stanford
Dining is committed to helping black farmers overcome historical barriers-such as
systemic racism in lending and access to land and capital-as well as the related inequities
caused by these barriers, such as insufficient access to traditional markets and distribution
channels. Our vision is to share the purchasing model we develop and disseminate toolkits
widely among both black farmers and college and university foodservice leaders, so the
model can be scaled across the campus dining sector. Long term, the idea is to expand
the purchasing model to support black businesses more broadly, and ultimately increase
supply chain diversity across other important underrepresented groups.
3. C
urbing deforestation through supply chain pressure. Through our sourcing decisions,
we are committed to helping ensure the carbon-sequestering power of forests and the
essential biodiversity they house remain intact.
4. T
hriving oceans. Partnering with experts across the Stanford campus can give us the
tools to source sustainably and actively play a role in the global supply chain to support
sustainable fisheries management, responsible aquaculture, emerging technologies, and
an abundance of delicious, nutritious, biodiverse plant-based foods from the sea.
5. C
atalyzing a circular economy of food. We embrace the principles of a circular economy,
which are: design out waste and pollution; keep products and materials in use; and
regenerate natural systems. We aim to channel resources toward circularity especially as it
relates to the twin crises of overreliance on single-use plastics and food waste.
6. W
e fully embrace systems thinking, upstream thinking, and minimizing unintended
consequences. Food systems are not linear. They are complex, intricate webs of players
and levers, sub-systems, and multi-directional relationships. We believe in the potential of
multi-solving: addressing multiple imperatives-from human health and nutrition to racial
justice and gender equity, from water footprint and carbon footprint to animal welfare and
workplace conditions-through strategic shifts in our operations.

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