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This is an interesting article debunking the myth about eating healthy being expensive. Check it out. 

This article is mainly talking about a change that a food industry alliance is trying to do with grocery manufactures associations. They have started trying to find local restaurants, stores, and food processors to cut those transport times and extend the life shelves of produce. This committee has begun the research step to try and help America with food waste and taking their first steps.

this article talks about a solution that is in the making that will reduce food waste.

People don't realize how serious food waste is. While our country wastes enough food to fill a football stadium, other countries are fighting for scraps. 

Dana Gunders, at N.R.D.C. she is a project scientist who specializes in food and agriculture. She once stated "This issue has received very little attention in the U.S.," regarding Food Waste. Although some of the bare minimal such as, energy, land, and fresh water all take part in the production for the American consumers.

With all the food that is being wasted, it goes to the langfills, which in case creates a powerful greenhouse gas by the name of methane. The waste isn't just occuring when we throw it away after we're done with it. Waste happens before it even hits our dinner tables.

This article is about the "Think, Eat, Save" program that will change the way food is sold, processed, transported, harvested and even consumed.

How habbits will be hard to break and will take time. Followed by wasting habbits and how they affect us.

According to the most recent available statistics, more than 30 million tons of food was dumped in landfills in 2009, making food by far the most abundant material there by weight, the federal Environmental Protection Agency says. (That calculation excludes industrial, construction and hazardous waste.) This amounts roughly to 200 pounds a year for every man, woman and child in the United States.

Currently 50 million households suffer from food insecurity, meaning that family members cannot always meet their basic food needs. .

This article talks about global warming in Arizona and that do to heat heat rising in Arizona it is in a way lower property value. This article reminds me of the myth sustainability is about the environment.

Global warming, depending on who you talk to, is a myth or a fact. People love the fact that they can own some property in a southwestern state such as Arizona, and flock here during the cold winter months. With that being said, the heat is something that drives away potential buyers every year.

This article gives statistics and facts about assisted suicide.