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Science Has Found a Brilliant New Use for Your Kitchen Scraps
When John Wick and his wife, Peggy Rathmann, bought their 540-acre ranch in 1998, it was in bad shape. Located in California's Marin County, a windswept region northwest of San Francisco Bay, the land had been worn down by overgrazing; the grass was gone and the soil...
California Food Rescue Collaborative
Participants Company Aletha Soule Slow Harvest Amanda Hong EPA Betty Cheng Matter of Trust Caryn Mali Petaluma People Dana Frasz Food Shift Dani Wilcox Farm to Pantry Diana Lara Food Finders Ellen Hopkins Hanna Morris Food Shift Jennifer Grant Farm Josephine Borgeson...
Soil Scientist Meeting February 19, 2016
2016 ELA Conference Session Descriptions
MARCH 9, 2016 Wednesday Focus Sessions 9:00am-10:30am Building and Managing Soils from the Top Down Remediating Urban Soils – Eric “T” Fleisher Most landscapes that we work with in urban, suburban, and even rural environments have a history of severe disturbance and...
Tristram Stuart: Waging War Against Global Food Waste
The British activist wants the world to stop throwing away so much good food. By Susan Daugherty, for National Geographic PUBLISHED OCTOBER 16, 2014 Editor's Note: Tristram Stuart is one of National Geographic's 2014 Emerging Explorers, part of a program that honors...
One-Third of Food Is Lost or Wasted: What Can Be Done
From our farms to grocery stores to dinner tables, 30 percent of the food we grow is never eaten. We can do better. By Elizabeth Royte, National Geographic PUBLISHED OCTOBER 13, 2014 Spills, spoilage, table scraps, and other losses from the typical American family...
How Reducing Food Waste Could Ease Climate Change
Producing the food we throw away generates more greenhouse gases than most entire countries do. By Roff Smith, for National Geographic PUBLISHED THU JAN 22 21:05:00 EST 2015 Workers harvest celery in Greenfield, California. The energy that goes into the production,...
How ‘Ugly’ Fruits and Vegetables Can Help Solve World Hunger
About a third of the planet’s food goes to waste, often because of its looks. That’s enough to feed two billion people. Every year some six billion pounds of U.S. fruits and vegetables go unharvested or unsold, often for aesthetic reasons. By Elizabeth Royte...
Assembly Bill No. 1045 CHAPTER 596 Organic Waste : Composting
Assembly Bill No. 1045 CHAPTER 596 An act to add and repeal Sections 42649.87 and 43032 to the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste. [ Approved by Governor October 08, 2015. Filed with Secretary of State October 08, 2015. ] ...
Soil Health Institute Selects Wayne Honeycutt as First Chief Executive Officer
Soil Health Institute Selects Wayne Honeycutt as First Chief Executive Officer Posted: 02/09/2016 8:26 AM Information contained on this page is provided by an independent third-party content provider. WorldNow and this Station make no warranties or representations in...
Soil Scientists / Compost Experts 2/19/16 MTG
Participants Invitees / Participants Company Whendee Silver, Ph.D. Berkeley UC Labs Ken Alex CA. Gov Andy Coghlan CA. Gov – UC Berkeley Neil Edgar California Compost Coalition Reinhard Hohlwein CalRecycle Jeffrey Creque Carbon Cycle Institute Matt Petersen City of Los...
Symbol Mania: Green Product Certifications you need to know!
Ever been confused by the growing number of green labels you see posted on your food, clothing, or kitchen appliances? With the demand for environmentally friendly products increasing from consumers by the day, there are a myriad of green product certification symbols...
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