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  • How a Free Grocery Store Is Cutting Food Waste—and Hunger

    September 12, 2017 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: New Zealand, Wellington

    In an era when 1.3 billion tons of food are wasted each year, a nonprofit organization in New Zealand called The Free Store collects surplus food from cafes and restaurants to redistribute to the public - at no cost to the consumer. The Free Store, which started in Wellington and has spread across the country, opens its doors every weeknight to anyone in search of a free meal, regardless of economic background or status.

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  • Wasted Bread Is Being Brewed Into Craft Beer

    August 23, 2017 |

    HowStuffWorks |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    To the two social entrepreneurs who founded nonprofit Feedback, the massive amounts of food waste being tossed into landfills in the UK and USA each year was a mounting challenge that required a creative solution. So they founded Toast Ale, a craft brewing company that not only reduced food waste by using unwanted bread from bakeries to brew their ales, but helps bring awareness to the issue through the brand, which is growing in popularity.

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  • Food waste is the world's dumbest problem

    May 10, 2017 |

    Vox |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Since 1999, the FoodCam has helped to nearly eliminate food waste at one MIT lab. Any time someone has leftover food at the lab, they can place it under a camera and hit a button, which then triggers the FoodCam to take a photo of the food and post it to slack, Twitter, and an email list. The simple invention has significantly reduced food waste, representing a small positive change to a serious global challenge.

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  • Going Digital to Rescue Food

    May 02, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Forty-percent of America's food is wasted, but more than 10% of American households don't have enough to eat. New algorithms, apps, and partnerships are working to bridge this gap and eliminate food waste.

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  • Sustainability programs reduce food waste, help manage insecurity

    April 19, 2017 |

    Badger Herald |

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    Response Location: United States, Madison, Wisconsin

    University of Wisconsin students and faculty are attempting to change the way food is treated on campus to minimize waste. The dining halls compost leftovers, and food is also donated to Campus Kitchens, which serves food-insecure students. Food Shed is a new initiative to share food grown for research in refrigerators around campus, open to all. Leaders hope these initiatives reduce food insecurity and waste simultaneously.

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  • Legislators seek to make food donations easier and safer

    March 30, 2017 |

    The Press of Atlantic City |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlantic City, New Jersey

    New Jersey legislators are introducing a series of actions that can help drastically reduce food waste and ensure more food is provided to those going hungry. The varied measures include provisions for farms where post-harvest produce is collected and donated, as well as clarifications on food labeling to help prevent confusion about expiry dates.

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  • School Lunch Share Tables Fight Food Waste and Hunger

    March 27, 2017 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Fayetteville, Arkansas

    Leftover food from publicly-funded school meals is not simply an issue of wasted tax dollars and environmental concern, it is a detrimental misallocation of much needed food for many students who still go hungry in schools across the country each day. The Share Tables program is helping to more equitably distribute food by providing a space where unopened items from one student's lunch may be deposited on a designated table (or tub, or shelf) for hungry peers to take - not only reducing food waste and child hunger, but helping students develop empathy and healthier eating habits.

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  • How one woman is winning the fight against food waste

    February 27, 2017 |

    BBC |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Denmark, Copenhagen

    Selina Juul is a woman from Denmark who is spearheading an incredible multi-pronged approach to combatting food waste. She partners with local grocery stores to change sales tactics wrote a leftovers cookbook, partnered with 3 governments to make plans, and more. Juul has been credited by the Danish government for helping the country reach their statistic of cutting food waste by 25% in 5 years.

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  • The fate of rural food and farms

    November 15, 2016 |

    High Country News |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Santa Fe, New Mexico

    A number of problems continue to challenge rural agriculture in the western United States. These include connecting people who grow the food with the people that need to eat the food, food waste worsening greenhouse gas emissions, and decreasing numbers of new farmers that take up the practice of agriculture. Different initiatives, such as those presented by Reunity Resources and the National Young Farmers Coalition, encourage collaboration to make sustainable food sources for the poor and for the future of farming.

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  • Milan leads fight against food waste – with ugly fruit and Michelin-starred soup kitchens

    October 16, 2016 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Italy, Milan

    Since its 2015 Expo, Milan has continued to foster a number of unique initiatives to combat food waste, promote healthy and sustainable food systems, and ensure that its people never go hungry. Through projects such as collecting unsold food at the end of market day for distribution in soup kitchens, using apps to redirect food waste, implementing new laws to ease the process of food donation, as well as fostering collaboration between cities, Milan is leading the efforts to prioritize food on the New Urban Agenda.

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