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Eco Living
Find What's Fresh with the Seasonal Food Guide App
Aug 16th, 2017 | By Amy Leibrock
There are few things better than eating a peach at peak ripeness while it’s still warm from sitting on a farmers market table. But where I live, the local peach season is blink-and-you’ll-miss-it short — and I often miss it. With a new app and website from GRACE Communications Foundation, I’ll never miss another peach season.
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Eco Living
Car Sharing Beyond Uber and Lyft
Aug 2nd, 2017 | By Amy Leibrock
A variety of app-driven companies are working to use technology to meet our personal transportation needs making it possible for more and more people to go car-free. Here’s a look at the options, including a few you might not have heard of yet.
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Food System
How to Reduce Food Waste Like a Chef
Jul 31st, 2017 | By Sustainable America
Are you ready to tackle food waste in your kitchen? Now, you can do it the way professional chefs do it with the "I Value Food: Too Good to Waste" Challenge.
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Transportation
“Safe” Air Isn’t Safe Enough
Jun 30th, 2017 | By Amy Leibrock
A new study released this week shows that levels of air pollution that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency deems safe may not be safe enough. The study, conducted by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, found that long-term exposure to airborne fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) and ozone — even below current standards established by established by the EPA — increases the risk of premature death.
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Food System
Are You Watching 'Scraps'?
Jun 15th, 2017 | By Amy Leibrock
Cooking with food waste has officially tipped the trendy scales. The concept now has its own TV series, called Scraps, which launched in late May on the FYI network. Sponsored by Sur La Table, the half-hour show features the cookware retailer’s chef Joel Gamoran and other chefs who create menus made with often-tossed items, like herb stems, broccoli stalks and chickpea water.
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Food System
What to Do with Lonely Leftovers
May 18th, 2017 | By Brette Sember
One of the biggest challenges of dealing with leftovers is figuring out what to do with small bits food. It seems like a waste to throw away a quarter cup of carrots or to toss that one piece of bread, but you can’t actually serve them as is. Author Brette Sember's has tips for rescuing even the smallest bits of food, plus a recipe for incorporating leftovers into a completely new meal.
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Transportation
Video: How Idling at School Affects Kids' Health
May 3rd, 2017 | By Amy Leibrock
There’s an invisible threat to children's health happening at U.S. schools every day. Air monitoring typically finds elevated levels of toxins during school pick-up times as parents idle their cars waiting for their kids. We’ve created this short video to help spread the message and help more schools go idle-free. Please watch, take the pledge to stop idling, and share the #iturnitoff movement in your school community.
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Food System
Why (and How!) Your School Should Do a Student Food Waste Audit
Apr 26th, 2017 | By Amy Leibrock
Food waste happens at all points in our food system, and school cafeterias are no exception. With 31 million school lunches being served every day, there’s a tremendous untapped opportunity to prevent student food waste and teach kids about food conservation at the same time.
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Transportation
A Smart Solution for Truck Idling
Apr 20th, 2017 | By Amy Leibrock
Like most good innovations, Idle Smart’s automated idling management solution for trucks began with someone thinking, there’s got to be a better way. In this case, that person was a truck mechanic in Kansas, who realized a lot of the problems he was fixing were caused by the amount of idling trucks were doing while on the job. Functions like keeping cabin temperatures comfortable for drivers overnight or engines from freezing in cold weather are necessary to keeping trucks on the road, but idling engines cause wear and tear — and costs money in fuel and maintenance. Learn more about this smart solutions to truck riding...
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