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This article explains how wasting food leads to wasting water. Reducing food wastes can help the needs of 500 million people. It also talks about how filling landfills with wasted food only contributes to global warming.

This is an article regarding the mistake that many of us do when reading the expiration dates we throe away good food. I am certainly to blame for this mistake. Reading this might help us save food.

As the article, there are many ways that food waste affect our environment. It could caused climate change, air pollution, lifecycle and water. For example, food waste could lead to a gas that 25 time stronger than heat in the atmosphere or the breakdown of food waste in landfill could destroy our groundwater.

This site focuses on sustainability on a state-wide level. It has an abundance of information on sustainable programs and issues. It talks about sustainability in many areas and gives solutions and ideas for ways in which people can and are being sustainable everyday.

Arizona is a good state to be considered a sustainable state. Becuase of the sun and how it provides power with solar engery. Arizona is in the best position and hits the brightest spot of the sun, that's why it's so bright here. Thus leading to a lot of solar pannels being put up.

This site was a good pick because it has a lot of information which will help Arizona.

The S. F. S. is a series of international summits that focuses on the leading issues such as sustainability and eco-labels, like Organic, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, UTZ Certified, etc.

This site gives some important facts about food waste. It give facts about how food waste impacts the world.

This article gave really good facts on how food waste does not only affect our financial situation but our environmental as well. By expanding chemicals such as Fertilizers and Pesticides. As a result it begins to creat more Methane; one out of most harmful chemicals affecting greenhouses gases.

This website talks about how food waste isnt just a financial issue but a chemical issue and variety of facts. Environmentally, food waste leads to wasteful use of chemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides, and more fuel used for transportation, and more rotting food in this process.

These date that are shown on food items are only simply suggestions by the manufacturer as when the food item was at its peack quality, and not labeled as when it is unsafe to consume. Food Mareketing Instiute did a survay on the confusion over eperation dates. As a result of this surevay they were able to discover that nine out of then Americans lead to needlessly food and is being thrown ayway.

This article explains what Environmental Sustainability really is, and how it makes decisions that reduce the business impact in environment. It also talks about business being expected to lead in the area of environmental sustainability as they are consider the biggest contributors.

This article is about the sustainability need in the food waste area. This article explain that we should recycle our food by composting and also explain two types of ways to compost.

To achieve a sustainable society then food waste must be recycled as opposed to being sent to landfill sites around the country. We all know the problems that our planet is suffering through global warming that is partly aided by the greenhouse gasses that are produced when food waste is sent to landfill and the ensuing fluctuations in temperature that is suffered around the globe.

I really like your comment Norma i Read the same thing but saw it in a different light. But then after reading about your going green comment i thought about how ironic it is that color is being considered a sustainability method. It is great when you can see something from someone else point of view and get more from something you already agreed with.