Category Archives: Composting

Growing Compost

When your favorite food recovery operation hosts America’s favorite urban farming/vermiculture advocate, you go. Last night, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle hosted Will Allen, who spoke about the operations at the sustainable, renewable, local, urban, awesome Milwaukee headquarters at Growing Power. The event served as a kick-off for a community garden at a non-profit medical center. As you can see, the garden […]

April 7, 2010 | Also posted in Farm, Food Recovery, Vermiculture | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

Sunny sent a tip that ABC News will have a feature on food waste on Friday night. I’ll post a link when/if it’s online. Update: the story ran on Saturday. — — Cheer up, Ivy Leaguers. Cornell’s NCAA tourney run may have ended, but at least Penn is composting its food waste (and reducing greenhouse […]

March 26, 2010 | Also posted in Food Recovery, Friday Buffet, International | Comments closed

Roundtable Recap

Yesterday’s EPA-led food waste roundtable was nothing if not energizing. The whole idea was to get all food waste stakeholders into one room. Given that there were about 125 attendees, including retailers, food service reps, municipal solid waste, composters, consultants, researchers, anaerobic digestion vendors, EPA representatives and at least one blogger, it had to be a […]

March 25, 2010 | Also posted in Environment, Events | Comments closed

Compulsory Composting? (and a video)

A piece in The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine makes a pretty convincing case for mandatory composting. I’m all for it, but I would like to hear from the people in SF and Seattle who now fit face that imperative. I’m sure there would be some backlash if this occured in cities slightly less progressive than those two. […]

March 22, 2010 | Also posted in Farm, Food Recovery | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) thinks that reducing our food waste by 25 percent is a reasonable goal. I’d shoot a little higher, but, that’s just me. — — School lunch reform hits New Haven and food hits the bin. Of course, it’s more complex than that. An engrossing read. — — Why can’t composting and crafting […]

March 19, 2010 | Also posted in Friday Buffet, International, Restaurant, School | Comments closed

Pot of Black Gold

Q: What’s greener than Irish composting??  A: Irish worm composting. The latter is slightly greener, as worms break down organics quicker than regular composting. Even more heartening, though, is the mandatory separation of food waste for large-scale food producers. The legislation took effect on January 1 and impacts restaurants, supermarkets and anyone producing more than 50 kg […]

March 17, 2010 | Also posted in International, Vermiculture | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

That urban British men between 25 and 35 are the worst food wasters in the land isn’t that surprising. But that 3 in 4 Britons don’t think food waste is harmful to the environment?! Oh, and the most wasted food in Britain is the noble banana. Accordingly, the Guardian offers a few suggestions. — — Remember […]

March 5, 2010 | Also posted in International, School | Comments closed

Gold Medal for Vancouver?

Vancouver is certainly receiving its fair share of attention recently. Well, here’s a little bit more–the city seems to be hitting a few green targets with its food waste recycling. Yesterday, I saw that Harvest Power, a Boston area firm plans to build an anaerobic digester on 22 acres it owns near…Vancouver. Apparently, Harvest now […]

February 22, 2010 | Also posted in Energy, International | Comments closed

Get Thee to a Wormery

If you’ve visited this site more than a handful of times, you probably know of my affection and appreciation for Portland. The progressive stance on reducing and recycling food waste there just plain puts me in a good mood. Well, here’s the latest idea brewing in the Rose City: a collectively-operated worm composting operation. Yes, […]

January 18, 2010 | Also posted in Vermiculture | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

The U.S. Capitol cafeteria has composted food for a bit, but now there’s plenty more eco-friendly changes in House office buildings. Since launching in 2007, Green the Capitol has diverted 75,000 pounds from landfills. — — I just heard about Hands for Hunger, a food recovery group in the Bahamas from this article. I’m not […]

January 15, 2010 | Also posted in Food Recovery, Friday Buffet, Household, International | Comments closed