Will Insects Save Our Food Supply?
to the United Nations Panel on Global Sustainability, we will need 50% more food and 30% more water, are facing a mounting crisis of food availability. Enter insects, stage left. Insects are the most, Wax Worm Cookies. At the Future Food Salon held in New York City last month, guests sipped wine, has a goal to increase food availability by 50% by 2035 in America. We support small local farms,, more efficiency in industrial farming methods, urban farms and composting to reduce food waste as
Local Food Lab
makeover of distributors. The bottleneck in my mind was the supply piece. There’s not enough food, Food Lab that is geared to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in local food systems. The Local, Food Lab’s stated mission: >“Growing good food and farm startups: Local Food Lab stimulates and, accelerates successful innovation and entrepreneurship in local food systems. By providing best-in,-class entrepreneurial education and a potent network of diverse professional resources, Local Food Lab
New Meaning for “Airplane Food”
total about 3 percent of U.S. food production, have the potential to increase our food supply while, among the airport’s fast food joints, mani-pedi stations, and newsstands. At four U.S. airports,, however, travelers are encountering exactly that. Check out how the local food movement has arrived at, connecting the two because we know sustainability is an ongoing cycle. The nutritious scraps of food, 300 pounds of food waste each day for composting. Food scraps are transported to McEnroe Farm in New
Chowdafest Diverts Food Waste, Feeds Hungry
Food Bank to supply 20,000 meals statewide. When you factor in the food scraps that went to compost, America’s mission to reduce food waste as a means to increasing food supply. , they retired to watch the Super Bowl. Attendees sampled great food while restaurants had an, event’s food waste to composting, instead of where it usually goes in Connecticut: to an incinerator. And, perhaps the biggest win of all was that both the proceeds and a large amount of direct food
Tackling the Food Waste Crisis
increase food supply and make our food systems more efficient. Food waste is a huge part of the problem, innovative ways to deal with issues like food waste and increasing food supply through speaking, writing, that needs to be addressed. A recent NRDC report showed that Americans waste some 40% of the food that, is produced and we are not the only ones, food waste is a worldwide issue. Anna Lappe and Danielle, Nierenberg are two women at the forefront of the sustainable food movement. They are pioneering
Fair Food Fund: Closing the Farm-to-Table Gap
middle-of-the-supply-chain food system businesses that support farm viability in the northeastern, In the quest for a more sustainable food system in America, a lot of attention is paid to, developing businesses that utilize the food farms produce, whether they are processing it for resale, or using it as ingredients to produce new products. The Fair Food Fund, a new program from Fair Food, this often overlooked sector of the food system. We talked to its program director, Alex Linkow, to
Food Forests Take Root
nearby residents uses less oil for production and transportation and increases local food supply, Last spring, the city of Seattle announced plans for the nation’s first food forest, and people,, open, public food forest spread through blogs and other news publications and before long others, for a food forest in a currently run-down public park at the entrance to downtown Honolulu. The, organizers of Friends of Kamalii Park took inspiration from the Seattle food forest initiative, and with
Working to Solve Food Waste? Start Here
information and inspiring collaboration in an effort to reduce food waste at every level of the supply, In the last few years, interest in solving the food waste issue has exploded. Research is being, an effort to reach a national goal of reducing food waste by half by 2030. Now, a public-private, Further with Food: Center for Food Loss and Waste Solutions, a new national platform for aggregating,, food service providers, policy makers, food processors, waste managers, and more. Further With
Why Are Food Prices Rising?
, and the numbers on food prices have continued their upward trend as expected. The food at home index, (grocery store prices) increased 3.3% since April of 2011, while general food prices were similar, - up 3.1% overall. The price of food has been increasing for years. Total food expenditures in the US, increased 3.4% from 2009 to 2010, and the food at home CPI surged 4.8% in 2011. This isn’t normal, inflation, so what is causing the steady uptick in food prices? Food prices are really a global issue
Gleaning to Reduce Food Waste
enormous amount of food waste in the United States. Even with today’s modern harvesting techniques,, unharvested food is often still left in the fields. In fact, 7 to 10 percent of the food grown in, is not deemed pretty enough for supermarket shelves. Weather and issues of supply and demand also, affect how much food is wasted at the farm level. The Society of Saint Andrew (SoSA) is a faith-based, will take food that would not make it to market for a variety of reasons, and get it to agencies that
A Surprising Food Waste Solution
When it comes to disposing of kitchen food waste, nothing beats good, old-fashioned composting,. But if you haven’t made the leap yet, there may another way to prevent your food scraps from ending up, than carbon dioxide. In fact, you may already be using it. It’s your food waste disposal. If, and,, the solids are typically hauled away to a landfill or burned. Here’s how it works: Your food waste, disposal churns food scraps up into a liquid slurry that moves through the sewer system to the
A New NRDC Report Shows That America Wastes 40% of Its Food
supply of food to their tables. According to the NRDC report, American families throw out, waste. While food waste happens at every level of the food supply chain, consumers can avoid food waste, 40% of food available to Americans is discarded, and most of that uneaten food ends up rotting in, statistics to demonstrate the magnitude of food waste in the U.S. According to the NRDC website, >,;Getting food to our tables eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, uses 50 percent of
A Hyperlocal Solution to Food Waste
food, while one in six families in America lacks a secure supply of healthy food. By transforming food, Note: This post was originally published by Conscious Company as This Company Turns Food Waste, into Fuel and Fertilizer. Schools, campuses, food and beverage producers, and food banks all produce, thousands of pounds of food waste each year, and typically have to pay to have the waste hauled to a,: the Seattle-based company’s small anaerobic digester systems, or microdigesters, convert food
Sustainable America Receives Grant to Expand Food Waste Education
amount of food waste that is incinerated or landfilled. Considering that 21% of the U.S. food supply, Earlier this year, we launched I Value Food, a national campaign to help educate people about food, Connecticut. We were just awarded a $25,000 grant from the EPA’s New England office to implement a Food: Too, Stamford areas. The Food Too Good to Waste program includes strategies and tools that have been linked to a, 25% reduction in household wasted food among pilot participants. Over the course of six weeks
Labeling & GMOs in Food
Times, “For the most part, the spread of transgenic seeds into the American food supply has been,] ## Are they in the food I eat? Chances are, yes. A February, 2012 New York Times article cited the,. > “In a 2010 nationwide telephone poll, 93 percent of those surveyed said that if a food has,. guidelines don’t require special labeling for GMOs in food, and products containing GMOs can still be,. ## Why is this such a polarizing issue? In a nutshell, opponents of GMOs in food argue that there has
Frankenburger or Food of The Future?
carbon emissions, conserve water and make the food supply safer.” The burger was cooked and eaten in, the future of food by many. Made of 100% actual beef, plus breadcrumbs and seasonings like any, front of television cameras, then tasted by food writer Josh Schonwald and Austrian food researcher, the food system. Lab-grown meats are an exciting new concept that could help increase food, food and using less energy and water than conventional meat production. This technology has a long way
Untangling Our Food and Fuel Systems
it is a decision fraught with complexity and potentially wide ranging effects on America’s food, supply. Despite a federal court ruling that determined the EPA must lower certain targets for biofuel, waive the cellulosic requirement. But corn ethanol relies on an important food source, corn, for, production. As a result corn prices have risen, with livestock farmers and many industrial food, manufacturers, who rely on corn derivatives, feeling a major pinch and overall food prices rising as a
Are Food Waste Bans Working?
In the fight against food waste, a handful of states have enacted policies that ban some, generators of food waste from sending food scraps to landfills. These laws are new, so data about their, released recently that show these policy solutions are making headway. What Are Food Waste Bans? Although, Vermont have all passed food waste bans or mandatory recycling laws in recent years. Connecticut’s law,, for instance, bans commercial entities that generate more than 104 tons of food waste per year
8 Food and Fuel Trends We Love
is more energy efficient and helps diversify our food supply — and there’s nothing more local than, Sustainable America supports: sustainable food and fuel. The good news is that finding encouraging trend, predictions was easy—now let’s work together to make them come true! 1. Local Food Isn’t Going, Anywhere Just about every food and restaurant trend list we found reports that the eating local trend is, the top two spots. “Hyper-local sourcing”—restaurants growing their own food—came in at number 6. Why
EcoScraps: Sowing Success from Wasted Food
food waste from landfills and repurpose it into sustainable, value-added products like compost. We’re, same stores that supply the scraps, creating a tidy, full-circle process. EcoScraps has recycled over, 15 million pounds of food waste to date, was rated one of the most promising social ventures in,, Dan Blake and Craig Martineau, started thinking about food waste as college students when they ate at, an all-you-can-eat buffet and noticed how much food was being thrown away. They began to search for
5 Ridiculously Easy Ways to Start Growing Food
Has the food gardening bug hit you? If you’re not sowing seeds and tending tomatoes yet, your, American households are now growing food, which is a 17% increase from five years ago. The biggest jump, who are now shin deep in radish greens, we commend you. Growing your own food is a great way to, contribute to a more sustainable food system. But for those of us who excel at killing common houseplants, weeds — you just need to supply six inches of soil and a garden hose. To get started, you place the
How To Make The Food System More Energy Efficient
energy consumption, our food supply is often overlooked. In the U.S., about 10 percent of the energy, we consume. That is a considerable wedge of the energy pie. Examining our food supply through the, help the U.S. energy supply and also free up tens of millions of acres for other food production, expensive or controversial energy supply policies that have been proposed. Many methods of reducing food, permission of the author, Dr. Michael E. Webber. The food-energy nexus is at the heart of Sustainable
The US and UK Take on Food Waste
Yesterday, the USDA and EPA jointly launched the U.S. Food Waste Challenge, an effort to enlist, all players in the food system — producer groups, processors, manufacturers, retailers, communities,, and other government agencies — to reduce, recover, and recycle food waste. The new program is the, government’s response to recent reports that we waste 40% of our food in the U.S. As part of the new, food waste and food storage, and developing new technologies to reduce food waste. According to the
New Study Measures the 'Foodprint' of Food Waste
As you scrape food into the trash, do you ever stop to think about all the resources you’re, discarded 35% of available edible food. Embedded in that wasted food is 35% of energy use, 34% of blue water, produce that food. The report focuses only on the food loss and waste that happens at the retail and, understand how many resources are squandered when food is wasted. “Food waste is unique from other, words, we the people have the power to make a real impact on the environmental burden of food waste
The U.S. Is Running Low on Corn and Soy
very large portions of our total food supply in the U.S., would have to spike dramatically to kill, second lowest. Why is this? There are many reasons, but in a nutshell, food demand is growing fast, huge in 2013. But if we get another drought as bad as 2012, the days of supply would dwindle to, demand, causing food inflation everywhere. Sustainable America is working hard to increase domestic, food availability through increased food production and decreased food waste.
Imperfect Produce: Giving 'Uglies' a Chance
Clark, chief supply officer, has worked for California food banks for the last 15 years sourcing, on because they want to help reduce food waste. The company, which is less than six months old, ugly produce. Simon and Ben Chesler, both still in their mid-20s, launched Food Recovery Network, a, successful college campus food recovery program, while they were in college. Simon also helped start, measurable impact on food waste, resources and food insecurity. In addition to moving this food back
The Link Between the Energy Market and the Food Market
the world’s largest food-production company, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe is counting calories. But it’s, not his diet that the chairman and former CEO of Nestlé is worried about. It’s all the food that the,. Brabeck-Letmathe says, “do not understand that between the food market and the energy market, there is, incentives in Europe, crops formerly grown for food or livestock feed are being grown for fuel. The U.S, mouths to feed, we produce so much food that we think nothing of burning tons of it for fuel. Continue
A Peak Oil Primer
concerning for many reasons: Our food supply in America is directly tied to the very extensive, shipping and distribution industry which relies on cheap and available oil. Our food supply is also, innovation to achieve real energy and food security. Ready… set… go!
Nick Tiller Calls for Gas Conservation on CNBC
Part of our mission is to educate the public about food and fuel issues, and our founder, Nick, manager in the energy and food sectors led him to start a nonprofit organization. Here’s a clip from, reason to be concerned about supply disruption in the oil markets right now. Kate Kelly: What can, America as a charity that is devoted to both the food and the fuel markets, making them both more, demand you take away some of that risk, some of that exposure to supply disruptions and you can actually
Flipping the Farm-to-Table Equation
developing regulated, safe supply chains to turn “former food” back into nutrition at every step in the, food and savings. Turning food waste into animal feed offers one solution to an epidemic problem,. Forty percent of U.S. food goes to landfills uneaten, at an annual cost of $165 billion, while nearly, 50 million Americans live in a state of food insecurity. Add to that the cost of flushing away 25,% of our freshwater, 4% of our energy, and the greenhouse gas methane that rotting food releases
Oprah's New Venture...Farming
state’s food supply vulnerable — if there’s a natural disaster or other disruption to the shipping, Few people outside of Hawaii know that the island state imports 85-90% of all the food consumed, there. This means that food is expensive and comes with a large carbon footprint. It also leaves the, industry Hawaiians could run out of food in a matter of days. Many engaged citizens and famers in the, food supplies through promoting local farms and local food consumption. But there is still a long way
How Fertilizer Made from Food Waste Can Help Drought-Stricken Farms
impact on the supply side of its equation by utilizing food that would be wasted and keeping it from,. California Safe Soil has developed Harvest-to-Harvest, or H2H, a liquid fertilizer made from food waste, equipment, reducing the necessity for extra labor or equipment costs. Food Waste Comes Full Circle In, emitting damaging methane in landfills. The company sources food waste from a number of Sacramento, Morash, founder of California Safe Soil. As the company expands, it will partner to source more food
"We Survived for 6 Months on Discarded Food"
food? You get Just Eat It, a new documentary that explores the food waste issue from the farm all, and Grant Baldwin’s food waste experiment and features interviews with experts like authors Tristram, had already tackled waste in your first film. What motivated you to look deeper into food waste, that was really the first time we realized that edible food was going in the garbage. That sparked the, initial thought that we should look into food waste a little bit more. Grant Baldwin: What we were
Food Deserts
="511" class="size-large wp-image-7199" />Map courtesy of USDA Food Desert Locator from the USDA, ## What is a food desert? It’s an area where healthy, fresh food is difficult to obtain. There are, increasing areas of America today where the only convenient place to buy food is a convenience store,….which means a dearth of healthy, fresh whole foods for many Americans. In these food deserts, the, supermarkets and the fresh food have simply moved out of town. The USDA created this Food Desert
Agri-tecture
, Agri-tecture, where it’s defined as buildings that grow food or building-integrated agriculture (BIA,). In a recent post, Gordon-Smith highlighted the reality of food deserts in America. A food desert, is not always the case. The USDA recently published this interactive food desert locator map which, shows where food deserts exist in the United States. Map courtesy of USDA When thinking about where,. “Improving the available fresh food in the urban food deserts across this country would be a good
What is Food Insecurity,
What is Food Insecurity? The World Food Summit of 1996 defined food security as existing “when all, people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and, active life”. Food insecurity certainly isn’t a new thing, since the dawn of humanity there have been, occasional meal uncertainty to full blown famine. One factor in the IPC Acute Food Insecurity, Reference Table that determines the breaking point between Phase 1 mild food security and Phase 2 stressed
What Is Food Waste
What is food waste and what can I do about it? Food waste is a significant problem. According to, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, approximately 1/3 of food produced for humans, in the world is either lost or wasted. Think about that for a moment: 1/3 of the food we produce and, and developing countries dissipate roughly the same quantities of food — respectively 670 and 630, million tonnes. Every year, consumers in rich countries waste almost as much food (222 million tons
Algae-derived biofuel hits the road!
gauging consumer demand and determining supply chain issues up front are both critical first steps,-ethanol. The problem there is the food-fuel competition. With corn needed for livestock feed and as a, food source, there are significant problems that arise when corn stocks are diverted for use as fuel,. In order to make our food and fuel systems more energy efficient, advanced second generation, biofuels that do not use food-based feedstocks will be crucial. Algae feedstocks can be grown in salt water
Campuses Fight Food Waste
From trayless cafeterias, to thriving food recovery programs, to composting, college campuses and, students are tackling food waste and food insecurity nationwide. Currently we waste 40 percent of, our food as a nation while 1 in 6 American families don’t know where their next meal is coming from, waste food. Luckily, many schools and student organizations are already addressing this issue. Food, reduce the environmental impact of food waste is prevention. Many colleges are taking this to heart
