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• Waste Reuse, Health and Nutrient Density Core to Arizona-based Aquaponic Operation

  
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  Five years ago Mark Rhine and his business partner Marlo Ibanez, co-owners of Rhibafarms, had a broadband company in Phoenix, Arizona. They fielded a $225,000 a month payroll, traveled constantly and ate junk food only as an afterthought. ... Read More
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• Food Artist Creates Art And Makes Statement About Food Waste

  
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  Greener Ideal Artist Narcelio Grud from Brazil has created urban artwork out of discarded fruits and vegetables to raise awareness about food wastage. According to some statistics, people who live in developed countries throw away 30 to 50 percent of their food. Grud’s project, called “Tropical Hungry,” shows ...
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• This looks worse than it is.

  
  TFG — Authority: 558
  Every week, I post a picture of the food that has gone bad over the last seven days. Why do I do this? Because in March of 2008, I finally got fed up with the amount of food I was wasting, and I thought that showing my waste to other people would motivate me to use up my food instead of wasting it. Because this often ...
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• The Last Straw: Replace Plastic with Reusable Glass (+ a Giveaway!)

  
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  We pollute America with an estimated  500 million plastic straws every day  — enough to fill more than 127 school buses —  e very single day . The Plastic Straw Problem Those petroleum-based, non-biodegradable plastic tubes provide about 10 minutes of usefulness before they end up littering our streets, ...
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• FRN gets BUX

  
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  It’s always nice to see good empowered. Especially when that good is an organization run by young adults. Yesterday, the youth-powered Food Recovery Network received a cool $150,000 grant from the Sodexo Foundation to redistribute edible but unsellable food to people who need it. With this grant money, FRN ...
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• Building Toward Less Waste

  
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  City Harvest does fabulous work recovering edible but unsellable food in New York City. Now, with a new, 45,000 square foot facility in Queens, they’ll be even more efficient in their work. Watch City Harvest’s new food rescue facility being built…very quickly!
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• The Environmental Action Everyone Overlooks: Five Easy Ways to Reduce Food Waste

  
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  If you’re reading this, chances are you care about the earth and try to make decisions that minimize your environmental footprint. You probably turn off the lights when you leave the house; you probably recycle; perhaps you’ve installed a low-flow showerhead , use public transportation , ride a  bicycle for ...
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• Half of New York’s Food Waste Will No Longer Go to Landfills

  
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  Big restaurants and major food chains in the city of New York joined forces in a common cause to keep food waste away from landfills. Last week, the city mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that more than 100 restaurants have set a target to reduce commercial food waste added to landfills by up to 50%. The [...] The ...
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• Waste Not, Want Not, and Food Politics

  
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  Food waste appears to be a hot new topic this year, which is actually something I am really excited about. Not food waste—I find the volume of food wasted in the West horrific—but that people are talking about it, and more than that, thinking about ways to directly address it, rather than trying to shovel the ...
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• Unlocking the Food and Fuel Connection

  
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  New study shows food and fuel are top of mind for Americans Sustainable America, a Stamford, Connecticut-based non-profit focused on the intertwined issues of food and fuel, announced today that its latest survey results show Americans are feeling pinched by high food and fuel costs but don’t fully understand the ...
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• Iowa Project Fights Food Waste

  
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  Not every state has its own Waste Reduction Center . Even fewer have a state-wide Food Waste Reduction Project. Actually, I can’t think of one. While Iowa has long had the former (a part of the University of Northern Iowa for 25 years), it just now has the latter with the launch of the Iowa Food Waste Reduction ...
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• The Incredible Waste of Food at Events

  
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  I was at the annual meeting for one of our LPs yesterday. Promptly at 10am the took away the breakfast buffet. I was getting a new cup of tea at the time and watched them haul off trenchers of food that would easily feed 50 people. I had the same experience the previous two days at the SERGE event as several of the ...
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• Junk and More Junk

  
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  Food stamps (which aren’t stamps anymore, but debit cards) are used to purchase billions of dollars worth of, you guessed it, sub-obtimal, sugar and fat laden junk food. Who would have thought such a thing?
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• Blue Bin Special

  
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  Ah, college students. So passionate. So idealistic. So willing to ingest garbage. (No, not Taco Bell. Actual garbage.) The Heap read more
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• Politicizing Waste Reduction Advice?

  
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  Well that’s unfortunate. British politicians and/or the British media have politicized advice on reducing food waste. The Independent reported  Environment Minister Richard Benyon’s remarks about families losing £50 per month through waste and follows it with objections from the opposition. As an American, ...
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• Friday Buffet

  
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  More than 100 New York City restaurants–including ones owned by Mario Batali, Lidia Bastianich and Danny Meyer –have pledged to cut their waste in half . One thing conspicuously absent in the writeup was any kind of timeline. Still, great news! — — The GRACE Communications Foundation (the folks behind  ...
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• Food Waste Friday | At least it wasn’t meat?

  
  TFG — Authority: 558
  Every week, I post a picture of the food that has gone bad over the last seven days. Why do I do this? Because in March of 2008, I finally got fed up with the amount of food I was wasting, and I thought that showing my waste to other people would motivate me to use up my food instead of wasting it. Because this often ...
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• German Website Reduces Food Waste by Allowing People to Share Excess Food

  
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  Food photo from Shutterstock Each day people around the world throw away a staggering amount of food – by some accounts, almost half of all food produced winds up in the trash. The German website foodsharing.de aims to fight this statistic by allowing people to trade or give away food that would otherwise ...
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• Iowa Action…and Inaction

  
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  With a nice ‘not only on Earth Day’ lead, Iowa City’s  Press-Citizen praises the voluntary composting  of many area restaurants and supermarkets. That’s encouraging. Less encouraging news from the article: a bill that would curb the amount of food waste sent to landfills remains stalled in the Iowa House ...
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• Trashing the Earth

  
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  Earth Day is a good time to consider just how much we throw away–and not just food. We create 4.4 pounds of trash per day, which is pretty ridiculous. This infographic conveys just how wasteful we are. And food waste’s impact is even greater than pictured, as the numbers represent the percentage of waste ...
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