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Food System
How to Compost in Winter, Indoors or Outdoors
Jan 12th, 2016 | By Rebecca Louie
Don’t let Old Man Winter put the freeze on your composting efforts! He’ll try his best to thwart you by turning your piles to ice, slowing down microbes, shooing away composting crawlies, and stealing away the sun. Still, composters with a fire for recycling food scraps can melt through any Polar Vortex, Arctic Assault or plain ol’ cold snap to make sure the job gets done. Here are a few tips and strategies for making winter composting a success from Rebecca Louie, author of Compost City.
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Transportation
Teen Activist Pushes Town to Go Idle-Free
Jan 7th, 2016 | By Katrina Kazda
For more than half of his life, 17-year-old Alex Scaperotta has been fighting to end unnecessary vehicle idling in his hometown of Wilton, Conn.
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Food System
Top 5 Food Waste Trends of 2015
Dec 30th, 2015 | By Amy Leibrock
It seems that food waste is having a moment.
When we launched I Value Food a year ago, we knew the food waste issue was starting to get more attention, but we couldn’t foresee the tremendous progress the movement would make in 12 months. Looking back, 2015 may go down in history as the year Americans finally looked eye-to-eye with the 70-billion-pound mountain of food waste and decided to dismantle it.
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Eco Living
Our Most Popular Food and Fuel Stories of 2015
Dec 22nd, 2015 | By Amy Leibrock
In case you missed any, here’s a roundup of our most popular blog posts of 2015. As you can see by this list, our readers are more interested than ever in learning about the food waste problem and finding ways to fix it. On the fuel side, stories about innovation and idling reduction were popular, too.
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Transportation
Charging Ahead in the Cloud
Dec 16th, 2015 | By Amy Leibrock
We’re charged up about Sustainable America’s latest investment. EV Connect, a 6-year-old company in El Segundo, Calif., is working to streamline the electric vehicle charging ecosystem for both drivers and property managers through a hardware-agnostic, cloud-based software system.
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Food System
CropMobster Starts a Salvaged Food Dinner Series
Dec 9th, 2015 | By Amy Leibrock
Today, we’re bringing you a guest post by Nick “Nicky Bobby” Papadopoulos, CEO and Co-Founder of CropMobster. Nick started CropMobster on his family’s Northern California farm with the mission of igniting the power of community sharing and social media to crowdsource solutions to food waste, hunger and local food system challenges. Since 2013, CropMobster’s network has saved more than 2 million pounds of food from going to waste in the San Francisco Bay region! Recently, Nick — inspired by an article on IValueFood.com — organized an $80-a-plate dinner for 30 made from salvaged food. Here’s how he did it.
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Food System
Food Waste Scorecard: The Results Are In
Dec 4th, 2015 | By Amy Leibrock
In January, when we launched our food waste campaign IValueFood.com, we started quizzing visitors about their food waste habits. The quiz surveyed the lifestyle factors and shopping and eating behaviors that have been shown to lead to food waste. The good news is that awareness is growing about food waste and how to reduce it, but we still have work to do. Here are a few of the results.
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Eco Living
2015 Sustainable America Gift Guide
Nov 24th, 2015 | By Amy Leibrock
The holidays are a great time to show your love for family and friends — and the planet — by giving eco-friendly gifts. We've put together a fun list of gift ideas that can help lucky recipients grow and enjoy food, waste less of it, and keep safe on bike rides.
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Innovation
Voyo Is Turning Older Cars Into Fuel-Efficient Smart Cars
Nov 19th, 2015 | By Amy Leibrock
You’ve got a FitBit for your body. Soon, you can have something similar for your car. San Francisco startup Voyomotive has developed Voyo, a telematics system that can tap into your car’s diagnostics system and allow you do a whole host of things previously only available on tricked-out connected cars. We’re most excited about Voyo’s fuel-saving features, like a plug-and-play start/stop system, that can help drivers dramatically cut idling time and drive more efficiently.
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