Category Archives: Environment

Earth Day Double Play

Hard to believe that it’s baseball season already. But it is. And with April 22 fast approaching, that means many teams have publicized their plans for Earth Day. Is it just me, or do all the Earth-Day-only plans magnify how teams (or businesses or ourselves) don’t do much every day? There’s lip service paid to […]

April 14, 2010 | Also posted in Composting, Events | 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 Composting, Events | Comments closed

Food Waste? BAM!!

One rule at this humble site is that any time a food service provider with 400+ venues launches a food waste reduction campaign, they’ll receive some favorable coverage. (Between you and me, I’ll pretty much write about any kind of food waste initiative.) And so…Bon Appetit Management Company (BAMCO) recently announced its food waste reduction […]

March 10, 2010 | Also posted in College, Trayless | Comments closed

How Ya Like Them Apples?

A few of you kind souls have sent this City Harvest PSA to me, all with the caveat that ‘no apples were wasted in the making of this ad.’ I was pretty skeptical. I mean, how’d they do it? By installing nets on the opposite subway track? By considering feeding rats not wasting? Oh, right–CGI. […]

December 18, 2009 | Also posted in Food Recovery, International | Comments closed

Getting My Fill

I write plenty about keeping food out of landfills to prevent greenhouse gas emissions. So it was high time I visited a landfill specifically to see what a few methane handling systems look like. Friday, I went to Orange (County, N.C.) Regional Landfill where my trash used to go, before I moved to the next town. My […]

September 14, 2009 | Also posted in Waste Stream | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

Mandatory composting is officially a go in San Francisco (and should start this fall), as Mayor Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law. You can read the text of his speech or watch it: — — Mottainai! Here’s a heartening, non-food related post on my favorite Japanese word (and concept). — — Also from Japan, […]

June 26, 2009 | Also posted in Composting, Friday Buffet, History and Culture | Comments closed

Earth Day Replay

What’d you miss on Earth Day? A few things: The Washington Post‘s A Mighty Appetite has an interview with Cooking Green author Kate Heyhoe. I like the term “cookprint,” although I can’t decide whether I prefer “carbon foodprint.” One thing I’m sure of: I love that our “cookprint” takes into account the waste created in […]

April 23, 2009 | Posted in Environment | Comments closed

April 22 is…

…Earth Day. Weather permitting, I’m going to spend it outside and away from the computer. If I’m lucky, I might even get my hands into some real earth–I need to get my summer seedlings in the ground. I hope you’re able to do the same! (the outside part, at least) I’ll be back with a […]

April 22, 2009 | Also posted in Garden | Comments closed

Watching Waste

The report below has some graphic food composting footage. *Spoiler alert:* It might just spoil your appetite. Embedded video from CNN Video The clip details the virtuous cycle of an Atlanta hotel turning its food waste into compost, which is then used to grow more food. A progressive process, for sure. A higher goal, though, […]

April 20, 2009 | Also posted in Composting | Comments closed

Friday Buffet

Bon Appetit Management Company, primarily a college food service company, have already reached their year-end carbon reduction goals, including some admirable food waste reduction milestones. Kudos, guys. — — Two opposing Ivy League op-eds: one from the Yale Daily News that’s against waste and one from The Daily Princetonian that only occasionally makes sense. — — […]

April 10, 2009 | Also posted in College, Composting, Friday Buffet, Household, Trayless | Comments closed