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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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Dominique Lopez

Energy - 0 views

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    We use energy for everything. We use energy to treat our water , grow our food, produces and to go to place to place. In general we want our community to develop more diverse, reliable, and cleaner sources of energy; to reduce energy usage; and to improve efficiency.
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    As you said and the article says energy is so important to us to keep life going. Creating a better source of energy would be a big advancement to help this cause. It is great that other cities are taking action to make a change.
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    This article explains the importance of energy greatly, and the fact there is more to energy than "keeping the lights on". Energy needs to be sustainable for the future generations needs of energy, the need for energy won't go away.
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    I tried to see what was important on this article but it wasn't very easy for me personally to grasp. I see that you 3 did find the point of the sustainability with electricity. I find it funny that we are always leaving lights on when we leave a room and think nothing of it until we are told it will save us money or that we are wasting something we really take for granted.
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    This article states that sustainability and energy interconnect in many ways. I agree with Dominique we use energy for everything we do, but hopefully we don't take advantage of the resources we have now and end up leaving are future heirs high and dry.
leonel lopez

Simple Ways To Reduce Food Waste - Saving Advice - 0 views

  • In even the most organized of kitchens, there will be waste. Spills, failed recipes and other mishaps will add to food costs.
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    This page gives you great ways on how to reduce food waste and save money. The advice that caught my attention right away was the one where it tells you to know the people that you are going to be cooking for. It is true why cook for four people that eat plenty when only one or two of them would really enjoy a meal.
Raymond Laborin

Sustainable Agriculture - 2 views

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    This article is about how sustainable food can last us in the long haul, without damaging our health, and environment. It also describes how technology has a big impact on sustainable food.
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    The Article gives great information on how agriclture is making a transition to a more sustainable envoriment.
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    I really enjoyed reading this article for the fact that it was straight forward and easy to read, compared to the other articles that lose you to so much jargon.
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    I really liked this article because it was forward and straight to the point. I life how it really went into depth on the topics of sustainability in livestock, crops, agriculture and more. It covers many different areas of topic in one easy to access article.
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    I reallly like this article because the main page of the article has specific buttons for specific sections of the article, this makes the article very organized and neat. This article covers many different topics and definitely could be a good source to use.
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    Cameron i agree i liked how This website gives you knowledge on a wide spectrum i enjoyed quite a few of the tabs i agreed with and thought that we should make so many of these things laws which can be punishable if they are ignored. The only way it seems to get people to do what's right is to give them no other choice.
Norma Sanchez

What Is Sustainbaility - 1 views

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    "Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment." This site s full of information on sustainability and more. Great links are attached to this site. Want to know how to help? Read more....
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    In this article composed by the EPA, Environmental Protection Agency; states what sustainability is about then explains why its important. The website then explains what EPA is doing to help sustainability and then finally explains what people can do to help.
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    This article explains what sustainability is about and why it is important for our environment. It explains that sustainability creates and maintains the conditions where us as humans and nature can live together.
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    This is a very informative website. It explains what sustainability is, and what is being done to preserve it. Also, it explains what we can do to help.
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    This is great article to grasp what exactly sustainability is. I like how it really goes it to depth about what exactly it is instead of just giving a general defining statement, it helps with the comprehension of what it really means. It also shows what can be done to help this also helped with the comprehension because it gave examples so also an opportunity to reflect as well.
Aissata Traore

Area Walmart stores plan to try food waste recycling - 0 views

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    The Palm Springs walmart is planning to recycle food to give to some animals. And some people think they can give some to poor people. As far as I am concern they should work on this plan to help the society.
Ashley Bussey

TLC Home "50 Ways to Never Waste Food Again" - 2 views

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    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.
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    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.
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.
Samantha Cooke

Hungry for a group to safely deliver leftover food to charities - 0 views

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    (Sent original article to wrong ENG 102 group) Ever thought as a college student you could make a difference? Well a group of Students from Pomona's College started to try to save food from being tossed out. They would package it and send it to a shelter to help those in need. 3.7 million adults struggle to put food on the table, but 1.5 million tons of food get wasted and thrown away. Now there is something wrong with that. Donating food to the need has become a solution, but what if your willingness to help out gets turned down? One person turned donation food donations because the fear of rotten food and health code. How are we suppose to help food waste if others are squashing our solutions?
James Sassi

Sustainability in aged care - 3 views

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    This article expains ways caregiving facilitys can be more eco-friendly. With the installation of solar panels to save energy. The website also talks about how to construct a buliding to store heat and reduce heat all year-round with out air conditioning.
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    This was a interesting article changing the way indoor environment is seem like a weird way to do thing but the way it is explained seems like it helps. Like using the light self brightens the ceiling and also keeps less heat in the room by changing the direction of the glare.
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    this article interested me because my mom is in the medical field and it discusses how places can be more Eco friendly and beneficial to the earth. This article brings up several ways that buildings can be more Eco by using lighting that self's adjust therefore using less energy and less heat because they wont be on 24/7.
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    While reading this article I have realized many companies have been going the Eco- friendly route. On the way to work I saw the VA hospital have solar panels on the overheads in the parking lot. I also see a lot of churches installing solar panels.
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    I love the comments made in this article. I agree with the author when she states that people have to look at the solar panels as part of the system on the building and not as something added on.
Blake Damron-Gurule

How to wage war on food waste - 0 views

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    The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that Americans waste 30 percent of all edible food produced, bought, and sold in this country, although it acknowledges that this figure is probably low.Part of the problem is the heterogeneous nature of food waste -there is no single culprit, just many diffuse sources that add up to a slow and steady bleed on the economy and the environment. This site tells us what we already know, just some random helpful information in there that is fun and good to know.
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    Everyone is responsible for food being wasted the biggest contributors being cafeteria's, restaurants, and grocery stores. The first steps to wage war on food waste are to buy conservatively and make just enough instead of to much. Also to embrace the three R's reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Raymond Laborin

Increase Energy Sustainability - 2 views

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    This article talks about how sustainable energy meets the needs for the present, but does not effect the sustainable energy for the future. It also talks about how researchers are exploring different ways to produce cleaner more efficient ways to produce better energy sources instead of relying on fossil fuel.
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    The website is short and to the point, what i really like about this article is that it is easy to read, compared to the other "sustainability" websites that have so much jargon.
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    this website was easy to understand and interesting all at the same time. It gives a run down on the technology that is being applied now to help the the sustainability within our environment. This is also gives a sneak peek into what technology that they plan to improve on and introduce hopefully within the near future.
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    This article was easy for me to understand, I really like how the article explained "sustainable energy" with terms that I know and isn't too far complex for the readers.
Luis Gomez

Inetec British company - 0 views

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    In the U.K. there are working on new techniques on what to do with our food waste. They are engineering new methods on how to convert food waste into reusable energy.
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.
Sarah Chavez

Sustainability Myths: Leaving the Lights On - That's a Turnoff « The Green Da... - 1 views

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    It's a short section about this myth but I like the information this site shares about this myth.
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    This article talks about lights. We have all been told to turn our lights off, but are we really saving more energy? According to this article we are not.
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    This is a good one i never knew that have to ;turn the light back on was actually wasting more engery. I guess i'll leave every light on.
Erick Alderete

PepsiCo Environmental Sustainability | PepsiCo.com - 0 views

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    On this website there is information on how this company PepsiCo is committed to protecting earth by using natural resources. It also has sections that further explain how to manage packaging waste, water waste, and climate change. 
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    I think this is a good website, it's informative with the videos and the short information section below them.
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    This webpage gives us a a lot of information on ways that PepsiCo is being self sufficient to help our eviromental sustainability. This is a really good choice Erick.
leonel lopez

Less Food Waste at Parties - 0 views

  •  Decorating sugar cookies is one of the easiest ideas for parties with children
  • Instead of focusing on eating a big plate of food, the children are focused on decorating their cookies and licking the icing off their fingers.
  • Selecting treats people love in single-portion sizes and adding a few party games or music can make it easy to reduce waste
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    Really interesting on how to take the kids attention. Its really smart to have small appetizers than big plates whit a lot of food that could be waste.
maria buelna

A War Against Wasted Food - 1 views

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    How habbits will be hard to break and will take time. Followed by wasting habbits and how they affect us.
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    Should be interesting!
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    Just as much we try hard to recycle paper, organizations are trying to do the same by helping food not being wasted. They are forming donations to food banks for the undernourished.
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    Most foods are thrown away while still being fully edible because of cosmetic blemishes or overstocking. Food industry alliance are planning a 3 year initiative to reduce the tremendous amount of food waste. The environmental consequences are endless.
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    The Grocery Manufacturers Association is conducting a plan to donate more food instead of throwing it away. They are being financed by the Food Marketing Institute to help with transportation and the restoration of food. They will begin by conducting surveys in regards to why the food is being thrown out in the first place then act on their findings.
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    According to the most recent available statistics, more than 30 million tons of food was dumped in landfills in 2009, making food by far the most abundant material there by weight, the federal Environmental Protection Agency says. (That calculation excludes industrial, construction and hazardous waste.) This amounts roughly to 200 pounds a year for every man, woman and child in the United States.
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    Currently 50 million households suffer from food insecurity, meaning that family members cannot always meet their basic food needs. .
patricia kelly

Sustainability by recycling food waste - 1 views

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    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.
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    I really enjoyed reading this article because it ties in with food waste what we have been taking about. For an instance I thought they were the same back to going "green" it is good to learn the difference to comprehend both. This is also very helpful for those of us who would like to help but do not know how.
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    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.
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    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.
melissa diaz

Civil Eats » Blog Archive » 18 Little-Known Facts that Will Motivate You to C... - 0 views

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    This article talks about how food waste has increased over the years. It gives some suggestions on what we can do to prevent food waste. It also mentions how fresh products make most of household waste and how restaurants contribute to the food waste. 
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