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Ashley Bussey

Moldy matters: How wasted food is destroying the environment - CNN.com - 0 views

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    Food waste ranges from 25 - 75 percent, depending on the food type, that amounts to 1.3 tons of edible food that's tossed each year. The food industry creates up to 30% of the world's annual carbon emissions. That's not it, it creates more emissions once it's discarded to landfills.
Jordan Ruiz

7 shocking food waste statistics - 0 views

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    7 surprising facts about food waste
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    this blog is all about food waste in North America and the rest of the world. food waste is a shocking subject. This blog narrows the statistics of food waste to seven shocking ones.
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    this article shows how shocking food waste is with these statistics
Christina Mattson

Scary Facts About Landfills - 1 views

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    The rate of landfill filling up and how waste keeps on increasing. One landfill is closed a day because of the habbits the world has. How much of it could be saved?
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.
Taylor Burkhart

Basic Information about Food Waste | Organic Materials | US EPA - 0 views

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    This talks about how much food is wasted. this page also has two graphs one what is wasted in america not only food but other materials.
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    These graphs show basic images to help give a descriptive idea of how much food waste is happening in America. They talk about the disposal of the food and how it becomes a danger to our world by the methane gases it produces. Recycling, of course, is always a benefit for our environment; however, we need to inform more people about this.
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    By generating food waste has significant economic as well as environmental consequences. Parts of your budget goes to buying food, but yet we waste it with out even thinking anything of it. If i was to give someone 20 dollars and then say throw it away they would look at me like i'm crazy. But this is what we are doing!
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    This article talks about how recycling food has environmental benefits. It also states how food waste has both economical and environmental consequences. 
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    In this website the text is about the amount of food being wasted in 2010; which then gives the results. It also states the harsh consequences of food waste and also benefits of food wasting.
Jorge Castillo

Green tips: Food - CNN - 0 views

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    Individuals need to be aware where the food they eat comes from. Eating organic food is one way to go. This article givers five important tips to reduce food waste.
Jorge Castillo

CARBON CALCULATIONS - 0 views

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    This article is about companies sucha as subway attempting to be sustainbale. These compaies are wanting to be the most environmental friendly.
kacie r

WHO, Food Security - 0 views

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    WHO; World Health Organization. Food security is a complex sustainable development issue, linked to health through malnutrition, but also to sustainable economic development, environment, and trade. There is a great deal of debate around food security with some arguing that:
kacie r

Sustainable Table - 0 views

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    This artice has a several options to learn more about food waste and sustainabilty and all the different aspects within it. One of the main articles focuses on the simplicity of how something as easily obtained as an at home garden can make our world a better place.
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    There is such thing as raising healthy food humans as well as animals that doesn't harm the environment, thats save  and equal for workers (even farmers), respects the animals and supports our communities. As humans we need to recycle not waste, we need to refuse what is reusable and make our environment safe.
Aissata Traore

FAO Media Centre: Cutting food waste to feed the world - 0 views

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    The media is one of the best way to stop food waste today because everyone can be inform quickly. It informs us about the different between losses and waste. Food losses occure at the food production systems while food waste is more a problem of consumers throwing good food into the trash.
Jami Halliday

One Country's Table Scraps, Another Country's Meal - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    People don't realize how serious food waste is. While our country wastes enough food to fill a football stadium, other countries are fighting for scraps. 
Aissata Traore

Five simple things to reduce food waste - CSMonitor.com - 0 views

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    To reduce food waste there is simple things we can do : Donate food to animal Donate to hunger people Keep food in a safe place buy less food
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.
Cameron Murray

The Costs of Food Waste & Life Cycle Inventory - 0 views

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    This article talks about the costs of food and its problems on this world. The article also explains the life cycle inventory and what its used for calculating.
Brianna Regnier

UN report: one-third of world's food wasted annually, at great economic, environmental cost - 0 views

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    This article talks about environmental ricks but also some of the economical ricks of food waste. It also put both of these topics in both a global and US based perspective.
Raymond Laborin

21 Crazy Facts About Food Waste In America - 0 views

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    The world learned some devastating truths about itself this past week. Not only did we learn that 9 out of 10 of us throw away food long before it's spoiled, we also found out that all that rotting food is the third largest contributor to climate change.
Demarcus Hughes

Food waste, overeating threaten global security - 0 views

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    Some more information that can be read on food waste and a little on how it effect price of some foods.
Samantha Cooke

Stepping up to The plate to reduce food waste. - 1 views

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    Has food waste gone unnoticed? Food waste has become one of those things we do daily without any guilt of what we are doing. In "Stepping Up to the Plate to Reduce Food Waste" wants us to do just that. Nearly half of our food ends up in the garbage costing around $165 billion. About $160 pounds of food wasted and dumped in the garbage. This article recognizes food waste as a problem and wants to bring back all the old slogans you used to see. "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." Lets make the world a better place.
Alisa Cooper

Animal farming and human health are intimately linked | John McDermott and Delia Grace | Global development | guardian.co.uk - 1 views

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    Great article about recognizing the link between animal and human diseases. This is scary stuff. Agriculture and health are intimately linked. Many infectious, and even occupational, diseases are associated with the food chain.
patricia kelly

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

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    America's economy and lifestyles have been shaped by the low prices and availability of energy. In the last decade, however, the prices of oil, natural gas, and coal have increased dramatically, leaving consumers and the industrial and service sectors looking for ways to reduce energy use.
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