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Transportation
Range Anxiety? Today's electric cars can cover majority of driving needs
Aug 29th, 2016 | By Jessika E Trancik
Electrifying transportation is one of the most promising ways to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, but so-called range anxiety – concern about being stranded with an uncharged car battery – remains a barrier to electric vehicle adoption. Is range anxiety justified given current cars and charging infrastructure?
It’s a question my research group and I addressed in a recent study. Specifically, we asked: When looking down on the geographic area of the U.S. from a bird’s-eye view, how many personal vehicles on the road daily could be replaced with a low-cost battery electric vehicle (EV), even if daytime charging isn’t available?
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Food System
How One Chef Is Fighting Food Waste at the Rio Olympics
Aug 8th, 2016 | By Amy Leibrock
As nations around the world have been preparing teams to compete in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, chef Massimo Bottura has assembled a dream team for his own kind of sport: feeding people in need from food that would go to waste. RefettoRio Gastromotiva, which opens today in Rio, is projected to recover 12 tons of food surplus from the Olympic Village in just 44 days during the Olympics and Paralympics.
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Food System
New Program! Sign Up to Reduce Food Waste & Save Money
Aug 8th, 2016 | By Sustainable America
Today, we're excited to launch a new online program that can help you break the cycle of food waste in your kitchen. It's called I Value Food: Too Good to Waste, and it's based on successful strategies developed by the U.S. EPA. Through this program, many families have reduced food waste by up to 50%, saving up to $1,600 per year!
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Food System
How to Feed 350 Food Waste Experts
Jul 18th, 2016 | By Katrina Kazda
In late June, nearly 350 entrepreneurs, practitioners, policymakers, and activists from across the country gathered at Harvard Law School for the Reduce and Recover: Save Food for People Conference to further dialogue on reaching a national food waste reduction goal.
True to its name, the conference wanted to turn the conversation into action by “eating what we preach,” and see what it would take to prepare some of the conference meals with food that would otherwise go to waste.
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Food System
A Hyperlocal Solution to Food Waste
Jul 6th, 2016 | By Sustainable America
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 central location such as a landfill. In landfills, organic matter breaks down and produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas that, if captured, can be a valuable source of energy. Enter Impact Bioenergy: the company’s small anaerobic digester systems, or microdigesters, convert food waste and other organic matter like paper and yard clippings into fertilizer and energy in the form of electricity, heat, and even transportation fuels.
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Eco Living
Keeping It Cool
Jun 29th, 2016 | By Jeremy Kranowitz
Recently, I went to my mother-in-law’s house for a family celebration. As usual, I was called upon to bring a second dining table up from the basement to fit 14 of us. In the basement, as always, the surplus food and drink for the big meal was stored in a second refrigerator that she keeps down there.
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Food System
Salvaged Smoothies 'Pedaled' at Feeding the 5000 NYC
Jun 7th, 2016 | By Heide Hart
How much salvaged fruit does it take to make smoothies for 5,000 people? We found out in May when we participated in Feeding the 5,000 NYC, an event to raise awareness about food waste.
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Food System
Winning the Race to End Food Waste
May 31st, 2016 | By Sustainable America
In April, we returned to the Richmond International Raceway for a third time for a weekend of food waste diversion and recovery at the Toyota Owners 400, a NASCAR race. Coordinating food recovery at an event this size is a challenging task, but we learned lessons from two previous races in 2015 that have increased our efficiency — and the amount of food we were able to divert. The results demonstrate the important opportunity that large event venues have to reduce their environmental footprint and help those in the need in their communities.
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Eco Living
Mini Doc: Jack Johnson's Sustainable America
May 11th, 2016 | By Amy Leibrock
When musician and environmental activist Jack Johnson invited us to join him for an elementary school compost lesson (and schoolyard concert) in Hawaii, we grabbed a film crew. Watch our new mini documentary to learn more about one of the music industry's greenest musicians and how the island of Oahu deals with its food waste.
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