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Cameron Murray

Effects of Food Waste Compost on Fertilzer and Grass Growth - 0 views

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    This article talks about the effects of compost (which used to be food waste) on fertilizer and the growth of grass on regular soil. The article also said that compost does not effect the fertilizers both compost and fertilizers provide a mineral for the growth of foods.
melissa diaz

Sustainability Issues - Climate Change - 0 views

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    In this website it talks about how our actions change the climate. It also shows the effects of climate changes.  
ashcam

Discussion 4: Diigo/Sustainability - 26 views

Erick you're right but how do we do that? In the video we watched cutting carbon emissions by 80 percent seem to be the number one suggestion. but the UN decided on doing that in a longer time sp...

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Ashley Bussey

What is sustainability? | SustainAbility - 1 views

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    Years ago, we chose the word sustainability to describe societies goals and the belief that its possible. The most common way sustainability has been defined is "the ability to sustain" or "the capacity to endure." It is about our society and its future and the lives we live and everything in it.Sustainability is about being eco-friendly and eco-effective. Society needs to change its marketing strategies.
Veronica Guzman

The Environment (...and factory farms) - Rural America / In Motion Magazine - 0 views

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    This article talks about the effects of waste that is created by the animals in industrial size farms. The gases that are poisoning the envirornment and the people .
Luis Gomez

Science Clarified - 0 views

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    Information on our nations landfills and the process of waste management. The effects of waste and how it is being delt with.
Troy Amstutz

Environmental impacts - 1 views

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    A website that shows the effects of food waste on the environment. Different types of food wastes that impact the environment in many ways.
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    Food waste effects our environment in several different ways. Something as simple as throwing your left overs in to the trash can can contribute straight to the earths climate change.
Demarcus Hughes

Food Waste Diversion - 0 views

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    The Recycling Division develops and implements effective and cost-effective source reduction, recycling, and re-use programs and policies. SRCRD provides technical assistance to City Departments, private sector businesses, multi-family complexes, and the community.
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    Services used in California to have food recycled.
Alisa Cooper

Home | HealthCare.gov - 0 views

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    One year ago today, the Affordable Care Act's Patient's Bill of Rights took effect. This website shares information about how the act is helping millions of young people, seniors, women. You can use the site to explore coverage and pricing for your state.
Alisa Cooper

Health Reform in Action | The White House - 1 views

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    Everything you want to know about the new Healthcre bill. This is the official White House website that provides lots of good information. Learn about the new law, how it effects you, myths & facts, and news related to this bill. 
monaalvarado8

Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media on Society - 0 views

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    This article is about how there are different ways to advertise your business. Either through TV, radio, commercials etc.
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.
Kelsie Pensyl

Five Questions to Answer About Sustainable School Lighting - 2 views

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    This article first explains how it can effective to change the school lighting to energy saving light. It then goes on asking questions and concerns that people might have to changing to energy saving lighting. Though this is one step to sustainability it isn't a full step like people often think.
anonymous

Food Issues: Food & Sustainability | Cultures of Resistance - 1 views

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    In this website it talks about the effects of fossil fuels and pesticides. It also mentions what we can do to help our environment .
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    This is a pretty good article. It is sad how they mentioned that chemicals which were banned in the U.S. and Europe for being toxic are now starting to be used in developing countries. It is sad to know that there are companies out there worried more about their pockets of "one"(the company) rather then the health and lives of thousnds of people.
kelsey giebink

FOOD WASTE - DON'T BE TRASHY! - 0 views

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    This article talks about how our food waste negatively effects our health and planet.
Andrea Manginelli

For Restaurants, Food Waste Is Seen As Low Priority - 0 views

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    An estimated forty-five to fifty percent of food is discarded each year by Americans.That makes it an economic problem for everyone. In a country known as the "throw away" society we are destroying the planet with methane, mountains of food waste that could of been eaten, and wasting money that could of been saved.
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    This article talks about how much food we waste on Thanksgiving and in every day life. Talks about the different studies that have been done on this topic and the shocking results.
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    In this article they talk about how half of what  we produce in america is wasted. It also talks about how farmers grow a lot of product in order to get paid more and if it comes out bad they just leave it to rot in the fields.
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    Nearly 50% of all food ready for harvest gets thrown away, according to a study done by the University of Arizona! Sometimes the crops can't be saved due to mother nature, but in most cases food waste happens because we have been trained to only look at the perfect looking food.
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    This article covers the idea of warehouses and how they contribute to the idea of food waste. They also give again, They general run down about food waste and again some ideas anyone can do in their homes everyday to help prevent the issue.
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    In this article, the author describes the effects of food waste in our landfills. Restaurants contribute 15 percent of all waste in landfills.
Samantha Cooke

Food waste: out of sight, out of mind - 0 views

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    There are consequences to food waste including environmental, economical, and cultural. The ways to stop this waste are simple sticking to shopping lists, saving leftovers, and composting or donating what you don't want. People are becoming more involved with what they can do to stop this waste, but are they to late?
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    Many food that is made for special occasions such as thanksgiving, is hrown out.
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    The effect food waste has on the environment and our living conditions. The importance of composting and recycling.
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    This displays the problem of food waste. Most of the waste that we see goes straight to the landfill in garbage bags, but others do not realize other forms of waste. Any other form of waste that I thought was interesting was the food waste we put in the garbage disposal. Food waste goes straight to the landfills creating global warming. Food waste cost Americans $100 billion annually. Do people realize how much they waste? Will food waste ever stop?
kenya gonzalez

Half of US food goes to waste - 1 views

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    "Society of St. Andrew" This site talks about food waste in America, Global Food Waste, Environmental impact of U.S. food waste. This site also has links to other informational studies and reports and are helpful with this topic.
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    This article goes over a study created to determine the amount of food waste in America. The article also contains a comparison between just America' food waste and food waste Globally.
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    This article talks about how America's food waste affects the environment. It discusses the impact of global food waste as well. It concludes with information of a program to help improve the food waste problem.
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    This articles main focus is primarially on food waste. It looks at it as a whole (Globally). it discusses the Environmental impact, and what the Society of St. Andrews Programs are all about. It defines the positive impacts that the ministry has already managed to have on the environment.
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    Brief but informative description on food waste and its effects.
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    This website was about food waste in America which included everywhere such as households, restaurants and so on. American wasted 12 percents of food and only three percents was recovered so the rest of them disposed in landfills.
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    In this article it gives reasons why so much food is waste in America. After looking at all the food waste and searching through the food that is wasted they noticed most of the people don't know what they throw away.
kacie r

Food waste Focus Blogs - 0 views

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    This site is neat, blogs about food waste, experiences with reducing food waste, food waste prevention tips, how it effects our environment and economy, thats not it though, theres more on this site. Real life experiences, tips and great information that helps us with out topic.
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.
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