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Wasted Food -- Jonathan Bloom on food waste and how it can be avoided | a look at how A... - 0 views

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    This site is based off of Jonathan Blooms book "American Wasteland". This site just bullets main points on the book and the importance of American Wasteland.
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    Shows Accurate statistics on where we are in terms of food waste
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    The actual web site on american wasteland. based on his book. This includes information about theauthor and the book, tips of preventing food waste. informaiton on food waste. it also personal articles from others regarding ways they are cutting food waste
leonel lopez

How Bad Is Food Waste In America? - 0 views

  • According to a government study, an estimated 27 percent of food is available for consumption out of the tons that ended up in the landfill
  • 1997 on food waste and determined 96.4 billion pounds of the 356 billion pounds of edible food
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    In this page the author from our book, American Wasteland, its mentioned and some statistics from our book. Its pretty similar to the things that we are studying and seen before. The waste of food on restaurants, supermarkets, etc.
Veronica Guzman

UN food agency stunner: World loses one-third of total global food production | ThinkPr... - 0 views

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    This article actually quotes our American Wasteland book. It gives statistics that Bloom explains in chapter 2 of AWL
Louise Gumabon

Sustainable Foodservice - 0 views

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    I think this is a helpful website for those who are interested in finding archives, blogs and articles about saving food waste. It also gives resources that are useful to research like books and movies.
Cameron Murray

Sustainability of irrigated agriculture - 0 views

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    This is a book about the sustainability of irrigated culture. This book also explains why water needs to be more sustainable.
Brianna Regnier

The Ugly Truth About Food Waste in America - 1 views

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    This is an interview by Ira Flatow. Dana Gunders whos is an agriculture project scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco and the author of American Wasteland Jonathon Bloom are being interviewed. They talk about the topic of food waste.
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    This is an interview done by Ira Flatow. She interviews Dana Gunders and also the Author of the book we are currently reading, Jonathan Bloom. They cover the idea and concept of food waste.
Yin Hongsarmon

Food: Why We Waste So Much - 0 views

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    Chris Elen asked a journalist Jonathan Bloom the author of American Wasteland book. Chris questioned Bloom why american waste so much food and Bloom pointed three reasons. It because "we waste food because we take it for granded, we wasted because we can and we become superficial about it.
dillyng

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    this artile goes into more detail about what we have read so far in the book. it explains how landfills are releasing large quanties of methane.
Taylor Burkhart

Daily amount of food waste in America enough to fill a football stadium - 1 views

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    This article expressly greatly on our food waste, its also think with the author of "American wasteland", which we are familiar with. U.S economy continues its downward spiral, and this article tells us a little on that.
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    American Wasteland, a book written by Jonathan Bloom talks about the statistics of the food waste in America. This artice in particular gives us the option to look into even more statistics of how severe the food waste in America has become today. These numbers keep gradually increasing sending our whole stability on Earth out of line. The more food we waste the more food we expect to grow. However the harsh conditions we expect Earth to withstand are apalling; Not only the soil but the atmophere are at risk of causing serious damages to the future of life as we know it
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    The ridiculous amount of food that is carelessly wasted.
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    Daily amount of food waste in America enough to fill a football stadium
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    This article gives a clear picture of just how much food we waste a day. It talks about how Americans fill a football stadium each day with the amount of food we waste and how that negatively effects the environment. It also touches on how we are a society that went from having many farmers and a greater appreciation for the work that went into growing the food to not knowing or caring where it came from and how much we waste.
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    Jonathan Benson states that there is enough food waste in America to fill a football stadium and has been increasing over the years. He also talks about the cause of all the food being wasted in America and gives supported reasons.
Ashley Montoya

18-Little-Known Facts That Will Motivate You to Cut Back on Food Waste - 0 views

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    I thought this article was an excellent 10min reading, it brings out many facts the American Waste Land also brought up in the book. It also mention different authors and reachers that would be good to look on top of Jonathan Bloom as he as wall is brought up in this article.
monaalvarado8

Effects of Media on Society - 0 views

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    This article is about how everyday we are exposed to some kind of media. Walking by and seeing a magazine, newspaper or billboard. It is all media.
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