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How School Food Affects the Environment - Upload Knowledge - 0 views

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    Transportation of food creates a climate change in the environment. Carbon Dioxide is the largest contributor to the emissions in our air. Processed Transported food has increased over the past fifty years.
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Wasted Food Equals Wasted Energy - 0 views

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    We waste a tremendous amount of energy daily on transportation of food. This is due to consumers buying foods and not utilizing it. We waste in harvesting, food, money and transportation.
Jorge Castillo

Students Call for Action on Campuses - 0 views

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    This article is about how college students haved become vigilant about sustainability. With Internet research, they are investigating energy use, food purchasing, investments, transportation, and waste disposal. They are pushing administrators to approve new projects.
Ashley Bussey

MEIKO UK FOOD WASTE HANDLING SOLUTIONS - 0 views

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    Original: Food waste management is a central element within all foodservice operations, large or small. Dealing with food waste is a time, energy and space consuming process, generally considered as non-profit generating, however, kitchen food waste, managed and correctly handled, can be a cost-efficient, sustainable and environmentally important resource.Efficiently managing food waste is an acknowledged strength of Meiko UK Limited. Paraphrase: Food waste handling solutions and systems for a cross-section of foodservice establishments. Meiko UK food disposal equipment is a sustainable and environmentally-friendly answer to reducing kitchen waste to landfill sites. The Anaerobic Digestion system is like a vacuum that transports food waste through a pipe to a tank. After that, it is taken to a composting facility and used as a renewable energy source.
Troy Amstutz

The Conundrum of Food Waste - 0 views

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    This article is about the "Think, Eat, Save" program that will change the way food is sold, processed, transported, harvested and even consumed.
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Sustainability Myths: Does a Lighter Footprint Mean a Lower Standard of Living? " The Green Dandelion - 1 views

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    In this website a article is written by Grace Interlichia, the article explains that people often mistake sustainability for giving up living pleasures such as desired foods, homes and cars. But in reality its not giving up what people loath but instead creating a better way to live by fuel friendly cars and sustainable farming.
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    This article gives readers insight to our aim of living style sustainably. For example transportation, and farming. There are also other recommended articles to read relating to this topic.
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    while this is a good article it gives room for argument.
Erick Alderete

A War Against Food Waste - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    This article is mainly talking about a change that a food industry alliance is trying to do with grocery manufactures associations. They have started trying to find local restaurants, stores, and food processors to cut those transport times and extend the life shelves of produce. This committee has begun the research step to try and help America with food waste and taking their first steps.
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    this article talks about a solution that is in the making that will reduce food waste.
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Chilled Food Association challenges frozen emissions report - 0 views

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    Comparing research between fresh food and frozen food. Data is given on how much emission is produced from each frozen meal that is made. Also data on refrigerant emissions are given as well.
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. .
Robbyn Purcell

Eating Ecologically Healthy Eating for a Healthy World - 1 views

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    Great article that gives actual numbers and graphs on food waste.Goes over food transportation and also tips on how to reduce food waste!
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    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.
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poster of food waste - 0 views

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    The average person throws away about 20 pounds of food each month, that adds up between $28-$43. The United Nations has predicted that the U.S. will need about 70 percent more food to feed the projected population, in 2050, with how much we waste today. We're not only wasting food,we're also wasting water, energy, chemicals, packaging, and gas transporting discarded food. All of this is taken to produce and distribute the food and where does it end up? In the landfills.
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    http://www.nrdc.org/living/eatingwell/files/foodwaste_2pgr.pdf. short informational facts regarding food waste in America and its finicial impact. it was shows the precentage of what types of food to wastes . it also explaines different ways to prevent food waste and why it is important to reduce the amount of food we waste
James Sassi

Food waste - 0 views

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

Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuel - 1 views

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    This article is about the idea of using and incorporating alternative ways of transportation into our lifestyle. Also shows the consumer barriers and attitudes towards the concept of this.
Brianna Regnier

Real Prospects for Energy Efficiency in the United States - 0 views

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    This article explains the realistic proposals that are available for energy efficiency. it talks about the ways in residential and commercial buildings, transportation, and in industry. This article covers a lot of bases and gives a lot of different topic ideas.
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