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A Dumpster Dinner: Is Thanksgiving The Most Wasteful Day Of The Year?

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 11.24.2011

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NEW YORK -- Lynn U., a 58 year old mom of two, is bringing cornbread stuffing to her aunt's Thanksgiving celebration this year. What the aunt doesn't ...

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Food Informants: A Week In The Life Of A Freegan

Posted 09.27.2011

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Food Informants is a week-in-the-life series profiling fascinating people in the food world. We hope it will give you a first-hand look at the many di...

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Dumpster Diving Tips: The Freegan Way (PHOTOS/VIDEOS)

Huffington Post | Travis Walter Donovan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dumpster diving is a practice becoming more common among financially stable people, intertwined with the growing freegan movement. Their name derived...

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Trash Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill Chameides

Looking to lower your impact on the planet? Look no further than your trash bin. We Americans produce a lot of trash -- by some estimates about 250 million tons of the stuff per year.

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It Is What It Isn't

Ned Goldreyer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ned Goldreyer

I've patriotically lost my job and even gone so far as to buy a book on how to find another one, but all these carefully executed half-measures have not been enough. The time for three-quarter measures has arrived.

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Twitter Feeding Your World

Graham Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

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Graham Hill

Many Americans throw away masses of food but health regulations make it harder for leftover food to get officially donated. Social networking can help, here's how.

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Yes, We Need More Extreme Environmentalists

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marguerite Manteau-Rao

More extreme environmentalists are needed on the right, to bring about the balance that you, I, our whole planet need

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4 Easy Ways to Be a Freegan

Maura Judkis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Maura Judkis

Conventional wisdom states that dumpster-diving is for the homeless. Freegans, however, are a small anticonsumerist group who won't allow anything use...

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Freeganism: Do You Buy It?

Huffington Post | Verena von Pfetten | Posted 11.17.2011

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Madeline Nelson finds a bag of slightly bruised apples and day-old bread left in a supermarket's Dumpster too tempting to pass up. "A lot of perfectl...

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