5 ways wasting food hurts the environment (and 5 ways you can fix it)

Some estimates reveal that Americans waste as much as 60 million tons of food a year. Given the plight of world hunger, this fact is shameful enough, but what many of us may not realize is that wasted food also has a harmful effect on the environment. So that we might be better stewards of the earth […]

UK food recycling cafes go global in fight against waste

When former chef Adam Smith opened a small cafe in Britain’s industrial north two years ago, serving up dishes with food destined for the scrap heap, he had big aspirations: To fight global food waste. “From day one I set out to feed the world and I intend to do that,” the Yorkshireman ambitiously said, as […]

Ghost Food: an art exhibit shows how we might eat after global warming

Adi Robertson, The Verge In 2011, the runner peanut — used in peanut butter — had its worst harvest in three decades after a summer of severe heat and drought. Not long after, researchers suggested that the North Sea cod’s slow recovery from chronic overfishing is due partly to warmer water that unbalanced the ecosystem. […]

Here's A Reason To Love Disco Again: Stopping Food Waste

Eliza Barclay, GPB News Wednesday is World Food Day, an occasion food activists like to use to call attention to world hunger. With 842 million chronically undernourished people on Earth, it’s a problem that hasn’t gone away…READ MORE

Fast Facts on Food Waste in Australia

FoodWise To better understand community knowledge, attitudes and behaviours about household food waste, 1,200 NSW households were surveyed as part of the ‘Food Waste Avoidance Benchmark Study’. This NSW Government study was the most comprehensive analysis of community knowledge, attitudes and behaviours yet conducted in Australia about food waste…READ MORE