Food Waste

Urban Gleaners: Reducing Food Waste to Reduce Hunger (Video)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Children Hungry, Urban Gleaners, Food Insecurity, Food Rescuers, Food Pantry, Food for the Poor, Food Waste, Food for the Hungry, Food Bank, Food Security, Reducing Food Waste, Video, Green News
Rebecca Gerendasy

A simple idea that came out of hearing a story on the radio. For Tracy Oseran, it was something she had to do: help find and distribute food that would otherwise be thrown out.

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A Quicker Way To Compost

Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Quick Composting, Video, Compost Bins, Environment, Composting, Bokashi System, Waste Composting, Gardening, Food Waste, Bokashi Composting System, Compost Bin, Garden Composting, Green Waste, Green News

From Earth911's Leon Kaye: While composting has become more mainstream, not everyone has access to the space necessary for the maintenance of a com...

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"I Am a Dumpster Diver, and I Eat Trash"

The Daily Collegian | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Dumpster Diving, Penn State, Pennsylvania State University, Epa, Urban Foraging, Food Waste, Free Food, Green Food, College News
The Daily Collegian

When you jump all the way into a dumpster, you start thinking about what other people would think if they saw you standing ankle-deep in garbage bags. But I'm already sure that I'm going to try my hand at dumpster diving again.

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PHOTOS: Beautiful Rotten Food

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Rotting, Klaus Pichler, Photography, Still Life, Rotten Food, Food Waste, Rotting Food, United Nations, Food News

A fair warning, Austrian artist Klaus Pichler's photographic still life series of rotting food isn't for the faint of heart. The project, titled "...

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Tips For Reducing Thanksgiving Food Waste

Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Video, Green Holiday, Thanksgiving Leftovers, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Food Waste, Food Waste, Reducing Food Waste, Thanksgiving Food, Green Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Tips, Green Thanksgiving Tips, Green News

Thanksgiving and other holidays near the end of the year are a great opportunity to spend time with loved ones. Unfortunately, the holiday season also...

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10 Tips For Reducing Food Waste During The Holiday Season

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Waste, Food, Food Waste, Thanksgiving, Holidays, Donations, Charity, Impact News
Danielle Nierenberg

The holiday season is a time for gifts, decorations, and lots and lots of food. As a result, it's also a time of spectacular amounts of waste.

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UK Chefs, Farmers Salvage 'Wonky' Veggies, Cook Up Stew For 5,000

Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Valentine Warner, British Chefs, Trafalgar Square, Food Waste, Discarded Food, British Farmers, Free Lunch, Impact News

Instead of letting "wonky" carrots and cauliflower go to waste, a group of British charities and farmers whipped up a vegetable stew to feed 5,000 peo...

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The Five Scariest Things About Halloween 2011

Terry Tamminen | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Fertilizer, Pesticides, Solyndra, Climate Change, Deepwater Horizon, Food and Agriculture Organization, Renewables, Clean Energy, Halloween, Water Scarcity, Food Waste, Population, Dead Zones, Green News
Terry Tamminen

The United Nations predicts that on Halloween this year, the human population will hit the seven billion mark. But that's not even the scary statistic.

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PHOTOS: Top 5 Tips For Reducing Food Waste And Saving Money

Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Composting, Reduce Food Waste, Video, Kitchen Tips, Food Waste, Kitchen Waste, Saving Money, Reducing Food Waste, Green-Living, Green News

From Terri Bennett, Founder of DoYourPart.com: Americans spend a lot of money each year on food we don't even eat. The truth is that roughly 30% of...

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World Population Day: Agriculture Offers Huge Opportunities for a Planet of 7 Billion

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Population, Nourishing the Planet, Agroecology, Food, Farming, Food Waste, World Population Day, Agriculture, Impact News
Danielle Nierenberg

Agriculture is emerging as a solution to mitigating climate change, reducing public health problems and costs, making cities more livable, and creating jobs in a stagnant global economy.

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Reducing Food Waste: Making the Most of Our Abundance

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Nourishing the Planet, Farming, Hunger, Food Waste, Agriculture, Food News
Danielle Nierenberg

New statistics from the UN state that roughly one-third of the food produced worldwide for human consumption is lost or wasted, amounting to some 1.3 billion tons per year.

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Food Banks Find New Ways To Fight Rising Costs, Including Charging For Produce

Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Kosher Soup Kitchen, Food Shortages, Food Pantries, Food Banks, Rising Food Costs, Food Costs, Soup Kitchen, Soup Kitchens, Food Shortage, Food Pantry, Food Waste, Food Bank, Good News, Food News

Food banks around the country are implementing new policies to combat rising food costs and food shortages as more people are struggling to get enough...

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How to Manage Food Waste

Allen Hershkowitz | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Composting, Home Composting, Food Waste, Vermicomposting, Green News
Allen Hershkowitz

Food scraps should not be sent to landfills or incinerators. Instead, the best option for disposing of food waste is composting, whether at home or in a municipal system.

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Do 'Use-By' Dates Lead To Wasted Food?

Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Use By, Food Spoilage, Sell By, Shelf Life, Sell by Date, Food Waste, Use by Date, Usda, Food News

Americans throw out 14 percent of the food they buy, and generate 34 millions tons of food waste every year. One way to reduce these numbers is by not...

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Dive In!

Elizabeth Kucinich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food, Hunger, Food Waste, Child-Hunger, Food Politics, Hunger in America, Childhood Obesity, Food News
Elizabeth Kucinich

It is a sad state of affairs when our children only receive one or two meals a day, and those are provided by schools.

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Be Thankful, Not Wasteful

Jonathan Bloom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Waste, American Wasteland, Reducing Waste, Jonathan Bloom, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Food, Thanksgiving 2010, Food News
Jonathan Bloom

I'm calling on you to help ensure that your group strives to eliminate or minimize waste at your Thanksgiving feast. Here's how.

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How Avoiding Food Waste Aids Our Environment

Jonathan Bloom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wasting Food, Food Waste, Green News
Jonathan Bloom

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was, obviously, a national tragedy. Yet every year we squander 70 times that amount of petroleum through a simple, preventable source: wasted food.

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Eco Etiquette: 10 Tips For A Green Halloween

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Halloween Candy, Green Halloween, Green Advice, Pvc, Composting, Genetically Modified Food, Food Waste, Green Living, Hershey's, Fair Trade Chocolate, Indoor Air Pollution, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

With a few simple swaps you can guard the health of the planet and your little ones (and your own, if you're still a kid at heart) without sacrificing a ghoulish good time. Here are my top 10 tips for a green Halloween.

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Food: Why We Waste So Much

Chris Elam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lisa Young, Leftovers, City Harvest, Senior Gleaners, Jonathan Bloom, Ample Harvest, Composting, Food Waste, D.C. Central Kitchen, American Wasteland, Food News
Chris Elam

What is it about our relationship to food that's changed so drastically since the Depression-era hoarding of our parents or grandparents?

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What Do iPhones, Coca-Cola and SunChips Have in Common?

Gwen Ruta | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sunchips Bag, Composting Food, Compost, Fritolay, Sunchips, Compostable Bags, Food Waste, Frito-Lay, Green News
Gwen Ruta

The ruckus over Frito-Lay's recent decision to pull some of the compostable bags it uses for SunChips snacks is missing the point.

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Love Match: NRDC and a Greener US Open

Wendy Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recycling, Green Cleaning, Post-Consumer Recycled Paper, Usta, US Open, Compost, Food Waste, Plastic Bottles, Green News
Wendy Gordon

The US Tennis Association is greening their operations because it's smart and responsible business -- but also because they want to show their fans that it can be done on any scale.

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We Are the Champions! Marin County Fair: Greenest County Fair on Earth

Annie Spiegelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recycling, Sustainable Food, Compost, Composting, Food, Food Waste, County Fair, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Annie Spiegelman

Marin County officials are claiming the record for recycling the most ever waste at a county fair. Roughly 90 percent of the garbage created at this summer's county fair was diverted away from overcrowded landfills.

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1.5 Million TONS Of Food Dumped Every Year, Just In California

Los Angeles Times | David Lazarus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Food Waste, Hunger, Dumpster Diving, Food Waste, 1.5 Million Tons of Food Wasted, Hunger in America, Impact News

As I reported more than a year ago, California caterers, hotels and restaurants throw out roughly 1.5 million tons of perfectly good food every year, ...

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Tips: Reducing Food Waste

Slate | Nina Shen Rastogi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food, Food Waste, Green Eating, Reducing Waste, Food News

A few weeks ago, after serving up some sobering statistics about food waste in America, the Lantern put out a call for your best tips on how to avoid ...

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Food To Waste

Hunger In The Golden State | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wasting Food, Hunger, Food Waste, Hunger in America, Los Angeles News

(The following story comes courtesy of Hunger In The Golden State a collaboration between, the Annenberg School for Communications and California Watc...

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