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This article talks about different well known colleges using different methods of sustainability. Different colleges have only used food from the local area, composting waste, energy saving techniques through out the college campus, etc. This article goes goes through each college and tells you about how the college has change to become more sustainable.

At evey step of the supply chain, food is getting wasted. A study suggested a few ways to help reduce food waste are examples like being mindful of buying too much food and cooking too much of it. Also freeze food to save for later instead of throwing it out.

In this article the author Aron Cramer explains the threat of sustainability and talks about ways its impacting the world; such as climate change. The author then goes into detail of how the government does not want accept the fact that this is reality. The website also lists information regarding the author to provide credibility.

This article doesn't just go over the harmful things that are being created but the industrial waste but also goes over things we can do to help.

This article talks about the massive amount of food that is wasted each year in America. It focuses more on the waste that goes on in the production, packaging, and shipping part than in our homes. It is a very interesting article that brings up many valid points.

This article talks about how wasting food also causes the waste of energy and water. It gives a graph of the total percentage of food wasted and food consumed. 

40 percent of food in The United States today, goes uneaten. They talk about statistcs and what should and can be done to avoid food waste.

A quick overview of how much energy and resources are wasted with food waste. It goes over how Europe is already making efforts to improve food waste and why America should follow suite and how it can benefit our country.

This article is about the waste that goes to dumps and landfills in 2007. As you can see, food waste is pretty much the biggestest contendor, other than plastic.

Great tips on how to cut down food waste. Cutting food waste how it helps you make yummy food in the kitchen. The last one is important to read.

Original: "Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without" is a favorite adage in both frugal and green circles, and it is something I strive to live by. One of the best ways to "use it up" is to think differently about our food and ways to avoid wasting it. Lloyd wrote a great post a while back about the statistics for how much food we waste in the U.S., and the numbers are, frankly, appalling. On average, we waste 14% of our food purchases per year, and the average American family throws out over $600 of fruit per year. Paraphrase: Half the loaf of bread goes stale and the grapes aren't as fresh. With an attitude to stop waste and some creativity, you can create new things with your food before it actually goes bad. Left over roasted vegetable can be made into soup and leftover rice can be added into oatmeal the next morning. There are many more ways to reduce waste in your home.

the statistics given in here are just terrifying just like all the other statistics. i find really smart on how to prevent the disposal of food. when fruit goes bad it could be turn into smoothies instead of throwing it away.

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?

The effect food waste has on the environment and our living conditions. The importance of composting and recycling.

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?

"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.

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.

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.

This article is by the United Nations Environment Programme that gives a general run down of the topic of food waste. It then goes into some interesting and informing facts about food waste. These facts are separated into two categories, US and global do give many view points.

This article describes the building matter of the food loss problem. The website also goes over real life facts of the epidemic.

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.

Here is another example of the 10th myth of sustainability. In this article it explains how a companies goal of selling sustainable pesticides went wrong, and that It actually does more harm then good.

@ Kelsey Martell, I used one of the yippy and dogpile websites. They take some time to fish through because they too still bring up a lot of redundant information.

What a great article that goes along with the 10th myth of sustainability. This gives a good example of how more harm is done when companies selling pesticides then good. This was a very interesting article to read through. Great job finding this article Jacob.

Ira Sager the journalist of the this article talks about how much money is wasted because of food waste. She goes on to say how many pounds of food is wasted. The number one thing that is thrown away is food scrapes, not plastic or paper. Those food scrapes we could be composting. She stated that wasting food is a cultural habit. We are use to doing it and it is culturally acceptable. Breaking this awful food waste habit then there is going to have to be an adjustment in our society. Also she talks about how many people think the government needs to get involved and do something about food waste.

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 how much produce the world waste. Often times produce is left to rot in the farm lands where it is being grown. You ask why? If the certain product isn't the right shape, color, size, or feel right it is left. This is because the consumers won't buy the product if it looks a little funny. If it makes it to the store the grocer does sales, promotions and other things to have consumers buy more. This then results in waste at home because often times consumers won't use all the product. It goes on to talk about how we can change food waste from happening and other issues within the food waste topic.

This article goes threw why its important to manage waste. what items are recyclable. what good comes out of recycling.

The epa is asking supermarkets to use generaters to significantly cut down on the food waste that they put out each day and month. The epa put a Hierarchy up to show how this goes, Source Reduction, Feed Hungry People, Feed Animals, Industrial uses, Composting, incineration of landfill.

This article talks about all the different wasys we can generate food waste from your house the prisons and schools. It also gives was we can do to stoop food waste.

This article talks about food waste being caused by two groups; large scale generators and small scale generators. It explains the two groups and explains what we can about the food waste.

This article explains and suggests multiple different alternatives for saving food in the house. Also to grocery shopping tips to avoid not using food. The author goes further to give different recipes for food that is past its due date.