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There is some good information of how much land filled food waste there was in 2011. How much of the food that we throw away ends in landfills. The benefits reducing food waste and ways to reduce wasted foods.

This article is about how media has an effect on children. The amount of TV they watch and the music they listen to.

Dana was a town girl and in very difficulty family. However, after she has traveled through Southeast Asia has changed her life to see how less food waste there was. When Dana got into College, she started to take action to make American waste valuable.

In this website it talks about the effects of fossil fuels and pesticides. It also mentions what we can do to help our environment .

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.

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.

This website gives information on how we can help save our environment. It has different sections which give knowledge on certain subjects, like Smart Growth and Sustainable Communities, Air,Climate and Energy, Sustainable Water, and Materials Managment and Safe Products. 

It is the EPA web page. They give ideas and ways to help improve the environment in all facets of life.

This article discusses the types of action EPA is taking in regards to sustainability. They also talk about the growth, the water, and the efforts they are making to help communities prosper the environment, economy, and society.

How a super Market gives food it can no longer use to a resterant. From there the resterant will create a menu. Every day there is a new menu from food that is still good but not possible to sell.

This article discusses the percentages of food that are being thrown out when it could feed families. A Seattleist blogger came up with a concept not only reducing food waste, but also losing weight to save the environment.

In this article it is call "food recovery." If Americans aren't going to eat all their food why not feed it to the animals or make it into compost. The amount of food we waste could feed about 4 million Americans a day. A lady does a different challenges and one was giving people the challenge of losing weight and reducing food waste. She has the group post their measurements and how much food they have thrown away each week.

A good site that shows information provided by the American Government. Has different kind of information such as: what kinds of environmental wastes (including food), food organizations nearby ones community,laws and new regulations to improve waste management.

The large amount of carbon food print consumed by the amounts of food thrown away everyday This article also shows ways to help change your view point on household food waste by reducing different cooking habits.

This PDF file gives an insight about the different levels that food is lost. It gives statistics and impressive facts about food waste. For example "Americans are throwing out the equivalent of $165 billion each year, but also 25 percent of all freshwater."

This article gives a whole new look to what sustainability is and how it is defined when it comes to things such as groceries, and sustainable practices to use.

This website is great due to the fact that it has multiple ways of connecting sustainability to the american people and showing how american's can due simple stuff to make a substantial difference.

This article is discussed that billion tons of food are wasted because of lack agriculture and it is reducing Earth's water suply. To reduce food waste is to challenge of sustainably meeting our food demand.

In the article, they talk about how UC Berkely is one out of 19 colleges and universities in the region to sign up for the food recovery challenge. They discuss what they're doing and what they plan on doing to prevent waste by composting, recycling and etc.

this website introduces many environmental topics. this particular one talks about cigarettes and their nasty butts. most people just toss on the ground. this article introduces ideas to prevent that.

this article talks about some ways we can prevent wasting food and auctually how fast food can go bad

This article laid out for ways people can prevent food waste. The first was plan meals for the week. Often times if you plan you won't waste. The next is scrape your scraps. Save your scraps of veggies and fruits and freeze them. In the future you can use them for different meals. Preserve your foods. This includes canning, dehydrating, and or pickling foods that you won't eat all of. Portion size is a big way on not wasting food. Start with small amounts of food a person can always go back for seconds. Last is compost items and use it for soil.

Great article that gives actual numbers and graphs on food waste.Goes over food transportation and also tips on how to reduce food waste!

Wasting food is not only wasting money, but it is unhealthy. We waste moneyand kill the earth and the environment at the same time. There are several things we can do to change our harmful way of life.

Smart ideas on how to not waste food at restaurants such as offering a 30% DISCOUNT.

Remember when your mom told you to eat all you food? This restaurant goes by what mom says. If you finish you food you get a discount. On the other hand if you don't you get a fee and can't come back.

Food processors don't talk much about food unless its in volume or price. They don't see the other side of how much is wasted because of their disregard to harvest it as well as to get rid of the unsuitable food in the right manner. No one understands the ethical, environmental, and economical problems that arise with food waste.