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kacie r

Sustainable Table - 0 views

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  • Robbyn Purcell on 06 Feb 12
     
    This artice has a several options to learn more about food waste and sustainabilty and all the different aspects within it. One of the main articles focuses on the simplicity of how something as easily obtained as an at home garden can make our world a better place.
  • kacie r on 19 Feb 12
     
    There is such thing as raising healthy food humans as well as animals that doesn't harm the environment, thats save  and equal for workers (even farmers), respects the animals and supports our communities. As humans we need to recycle not waste, we need to refuse what is reusable and make our environment safe.
claudecollopylee

business about reducing food waste before it get to the landfilled - 0 views

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  • claudecollopylee on 26 Sep 12
     
    Portable pulverizer gives food waste the thrashing of a lifetime: article on a Nevada based business that has introduced a new product to help restaurants, grocery stores and farmers with reduction of their waste. the Machine " The machine "shreds, rips, bruises and pulverizes" food waste, allowing more of it to fit within a receptacle, and preparing it for easy composting
Ashley Bussey

Waste Not, Want Not: Inefficiencies in the Food System - 0 views

www.utne.com/...te-Farmers-Feed-the-World.aspx

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  • Ashley Bussey on 04 Sep 12
     
    By Colquhoun's estimate, his field can fill about 3 million 8 ounce cans of carrots. He is bothered that see a considerable amount get left behind. According to the University of Arizona studies in 2004, they estimate that food waste might be closer to 50 percent.
ashcam

Real organic agriculture: Using human waste as fertilizer - 0 views

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shared by ashcam on 05 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • ashcam on 05 Sep 12
     
    A cheaper alternative for farmers is using human waste as fertilizer. This is something that has been done for centuries but in today's society is frowned upon.Urban dwellers wont go hungry with this fertilizer tactic, and there are benefits.
Andrea Manginelli

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

www.foodproductiondaily.com/...Half-of-US-food-goes-to-waste

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  • Blake Damron-Gurule on 06 Feb 12
     
    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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  • kelsey giebink on 09 Sep 12
     
    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.
  • Erick Alderete on 11 Sep 12
     
    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.
  • Sarah Chavez on 24 Sep 12
     
    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.
  • Brianna Regnier on 31 Jan 14
     
    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.
  • Andrea Manginelli on 15 Feb 14
     
    In this article, the author describes the effects of food waste in our landfills. Restaurants contribute 15 percent of all waste in landfills.
Raymond Laborin

Sustainable Food Lab Home - 2 views

www.sustainablefoodlab.org

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shared by Raymond Laborin on 31 Jan 12 - Cached
  • Robbyn Purcell on 31 Jan 12
     
    This program is dedicated to finding a number of solutions to the problems we are facing today with food waste, and manage a way to be sustainable. As well managing an organized strategy to get everyone involved.
  • Raymond Laborin on 20 Mar 14
     
    This article is about how companies,society, and farmers are identifying the most important ways to produce food systems that improve and add value to the food systems that we have in place now.
Taylor Burkhart

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

www.naturalnews.com/033885_food_waste_America.html

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  • kacie r on 01 Feb 12
     
    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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  • Robbyn Purcell on 06 Feb 12
     
    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
  • maria buelna on 28 Feb 12
     
    The ridiculous amount of food that is carelessly wasted.
  • dillyng on 04 Sep 12
     
    Daily amount of food waste in America enough to fill a football stadium
  • kelsey giebink on 09 Sep 12
     
    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.
  • Taylor Burkhart on 18 Sep 12
     
    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 Bussey

Food waste remains persistent problem at farms, grocery stores and restaurants | Califo... - 0 views

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shared by Ashley Bussey on 03 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Kimberly Montoya on 03 Feb 12
     
    The amounts of fruit,vegetables,orchards, and food in general and how researchers find distrubing to see all this food go to waste in california. The belief that the problemsof food waste start in the field of the farmers growing it and why it is the problem due to the retailers hard to pass requirements.
  • Aissata Traore on 04 Feb 12
     
    Grocery stores and restaurants still wasting food that they know to be unsafe. It is said in this article that Safeway doesn't donate food items that are not fit for consumption. In this case it can be a health problem to the consummer of these food.
  • Ashley Bussey on 04 Sep 12
     
    State students have studied that with the yearly food waste, it can fill the Staples Center in Los Angeles bout 35 times. How much is that? It's more than 6 million tons. There is a hunger relief program that most grocery stores donate to.
Kelsey Martell

Why Do Americans Waste So Much Food? - 0 views

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  • Taylor Burkhart on 18 Sep 12
     
    In this article by Ronald Bailey he discusses the problem and gives an average of how much food is being wasted; he also gives supported statistics from researchers across the nation. He also discusses the reason why Americans waste food and includes why it needs to be stopped.
  • Kelsey Martell on 31 Jan 13
     
    One of the issues we waste food is because the wealthier we get, the more we unconsiously spend money at restaurants and at home and then waste food. The issue of wasted food is not on the radar of Americans.
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