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Researchers learn how to maximize the benefits of purple corn
Purple tortilla chips add a fun pop of color to your appetizers or finger food spreads, but the benefits of purple corn go far beyond just aesthetics. Purple corn contains a healthy pigment that, when ingested, can help reduce the risk of developing heart disease or diabetes. This pigment is Read More...
This neighborhood food sharing app aims to cut down on waste
Food waste is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and a misuse of valuable resources. While at-home strategies like meal planning and freezing greens can help your family cut down your food waste footprint, it’s not always easy to use up every last grocery item before they go Read More...
Move for Hunger makes it easy to donate unwanted food when you move
Adam Lowy grew up working for his family’s moving company and noticed that a large amount of food, including nonperishables, gets left behind and thrown away during the process. Lowy saw this as an opportunity to boost moving efficiency while reducing food waste and in 2009, he launched Move for Read More...
Food waste-based biofuel could help airlines reduce their carbon footprint
Overhauling current air transportation and transitioning to electric motors is essential for shifting the industry towards zero-carbon, but this process will take time and we need a solution now that will make a significant dent in growing greenhouse gas emissions. Biofuels could be one immediate Read More...
CityLoops is a grand experiment on the scalability of circularity
If you sit on a bench in the city of Musicon, about 30 kilometers from Denmark’s capital of Copenhagen, you’ll likely be sitting on a slab of concrete recycled from a nearby demolition site. Musicon is one of seven cities around Europe selected for experimentation by CityLoops, a project Read More...
The Optimist View: Spring into Solutions
“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.” - Charles Dickens BY AMELIA BUCKLEY Stepping out of my house last week I was greeted with the ambrosial smell of blooming jasmine - a sure sign that spring had sprung in my little neighborhood. I spent an extra minute in Read More...
12 Creative ways to reduce your food waste at home
Many people are embarking on more cooking adventures during the pandemic, but if you’re becoming a well-seasoned home chef, you might also notice your food waste is increasing. The production of wasted food alone is equivalent to 37 million cars’ worth of greenhouse gas emissions. Cutting Read More...
Meet the Spanish designer who created a cosmetic line out of food waste
A third of the European Union’s horticultural production is estimated to be rejected by supermarkets based on sub-par cosmetic quality, meaning that plenty of perfectly good food is needlessly going to waste. But Spanish designer Júlia Roca Vera has created a sustainable cosmetic line made of Read More...
The US wastes 1/3 of the food it produces. This project is here to fix that
While 2019 registered 35.2 million people living in food-insecure households, during that same year around a third of the food produced in the country — worth around $408 billion dollars — went to waste. By 2030, the government aims to cut that amount in half — an incredibly difficult Read More...
Scientists use food waste to create eco-friendly liquid fertilizer
While it’s well known that compost made from food scraps helps plants grow, scientists have now figured out how to create a liquid fertilizer out of fermented food waste, which can boost beneficial bacteria within plants making them more resistant to pathogens and reducing carbon emissions from Read More...