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Earth Month UWS Explainer: How to ‘Compost’ Food Scraps and Why It Matters

https://www.westsiderag.com/2024/04/11/earth-month-uws-explainer-how-to-compost-food-scraps-and-why-it-matters

Navigating the Compostable Packaging Landscape: Insights from BPI Executive Director Rhodes Yepsen

Which applications are best for compostable packaging? How can labeling help eliminate consumer confusion over proper disposal? What role will EPR play in facilitating composting? BPI Executive Director Rhodes Yepsen shares his thoughts.

https://www.packworld.com/sustainable-packaging/bio-based/article/22892884/navigating-compostable-packaging-with-bpis-rhodes-yepson

Bioplastics create a composting conundrum 

Biodegradable food packaging is a step in the right direction, experts say, but when composted carries risks of microplastic and chemical contamination. 

https://www.ehn.org/are-bioplastics-compostable-2667646084.html

St. Pete Greenhouse paying dividends in providing food and teaching students at youth farm 

https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/2024/greenhouse-paying-dividends-in-providing-food.aspx

ANCA’s SOIL Fund boosts two small North Country farms

https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2024/03/ancas-soil-fund-boosts-tangleroot-farm-and-tuckers-black-angus-ranch.html

Compost Global Market Report 2024 – By Drivers, Size, Share, Trends And Analysis, Forecast To 2033

https://www.openpr.com/news/3453046/compost-global-market-report-2024-by-drivers-size-share

Republic Services Announces Compost Workshops, Commercial Food Waste Assessments

https://www.redmondspokesman.com/sponsored/republic-services-announces-compost-workshops-commercial-food-waste-assessments/article_59b3f79e-41c6-5ff4-9dbd-00183a1161ab.html

Super-sized diversion

Denali Water Solutions works with large-scale venues and events to divert food waste and packaging from landfills.

https://www.wastetodaymagazine.com/article/denali-water-solutions-works-with-event-venues-to-divert-food-waste/

Nod to a Bountiful Ag Budget in Pennsylvania

https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming-news/news/nod-to-a-bountiful-ag-budget-in-pennsylvania-opinion/article_d5b9ebae-0e09-5e77-b508-b41aee91041a.html

In highly urbanized Japan, city farmers are key to achieving organic goal

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/in-highly-urbanized-japan-city-farmers-are-key-to-achieving-organic-goal/

Want to compost your food waste in Fort Collins? This company is opening a new facility

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/want-compost-food-waste-fort-110336956.html

Food waste compost program starts Tuesday in Attleboro 

https://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/food-waste-compost-program-starts-tuesday-in-attleboro/article_ffe21d9f-726d-5598-a3bb-38c52cc93ec8.html

CIC and Dalhousie working on food waste measurement

https://wasterecyclingmag.ca/food-waste-reduction/cic-and-dalhousie-working-on-food-waste-measurement/1003290434/

O-Town Compost collects food scraps from UCF dining to turn into compost

https://www.nicholsonstudentmedia.com/news/o-town-compost-collects-food-scraps-from-ucf-dining-to-turn-into-compost/article_528d1454-ecad-11ee-b653-ff477e43800e.html

Food Scrap Composting Offers Wellington Businesses An Easy Way To Take Climate Action

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2404/S00020/food-scrap-composting-offers-wellington-businesses-an-easy-way-to-take-climate-action.htm

Price Farms Organics creates compost from Columbus Zoo and community scraps

https://www.farmanddairy.com/news/price-farms-organics-creates-compost-from-columbus-zoo-and-community-scraps/819224.html

Modular Insect Farms Successfully Turn Organic Waste Into Sustainable Protein

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/modular-insect-farms-successfully-turn-organic-waste-into-sustainable-protein-1033234488

The world wastes more than a billion meals a day

https://www.pressenza.com/2024/04/the-world-wastes-more-than-a-billion-meals-a-day/

Why Asia must solve food waste to hit its environmental goals

Food waste is a worldwide problem but is particularly pressing in Asia, which is home to hundreds of millions of hungry people

Not only is wasted food not getting to the people who urgently need it, that which ends up in landfills produces methane which exacerbates climate change

https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3258613/why-asia-must-solve-food-waste-hit-its-environmental-goals

Compostable Packaging Disintegration at Composting Facilities

https://www.closedlooppartners.com/research/compostable-packaging-disintegration-at-composting-facilities/

Something’s fishy with composting at D.C. farmers markets

https://wamu.org/story/24/04/05/dc-composting-farmers-markets/

PCFWC & ReFED find ‘real food waste reductions at scale’ in a new study of West Coast US grocery retailers

https://agfundernews.com/pcfwc-refed-find-real-food-waste-reductions-at-scale-in-a-new-study-of-west-coast-us-grocery-retailers

Bellevue High Schools go green with composting initiative

https://omaha.com/news/community/sarpy/bellevue-high-schools-go-green-with-composting-initiative/article_33ac217e-7d24-53a9-83af-3fafea286d86.html

“field-to-fork-to-field.”

A closed loop makes for open doors at Durham College

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/adv/article-a-closed-loop-makes-for-open-doors-at-durham-college/

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O-Town Compost collects food scraps from UCF dining to turn into compost

https://www.nicholsonstudentmedia.com/news/o-town-compost-collects-food-scraps-from-ucf-dining-to-turn-into-compost/article_528d1454-ecad-11ee-b653-ff477e43800e.html

 

Food Scrap Composting Offers Wellington Businesses An Easy Way To Take Climate Action

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2404/S00020/food-scrap-composting-offers-wellington-businesses-an-easy-way-to-take-climate-action.htm

 

Price Farms Organics creates compost from Columbus Zoo and community scraps

https://www.farmanddairy.com/news/price-farms-organics-creates-compost-from-columbus-zoo-and-community-scraps/819224.html

 

Modular Insect Farms Successfully Turn Organic Waste Into Sustainable Protein

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/modular-insect-farms-successfully-turn-organic-waste-into-sustainable-protein-1033234488

 

The world wastes more than a billion meals a day

https://www.pressenza.com/2024/04/the-world-wastes-more-than-a-billion-meals-a-day/

 

Why Asia must solve food waste to hit its environmental goals

Food waste is a worldwide problem but is particularly pressing in Asia, which is home to hundreds of millions of hungry people

Not only is wasted food not getting to the people who urgently need it, that which ends up in landfills produces methane which exacerbates climate change

https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3258613/why-asia-must-solve-food-waste-hit-its-environmental-goals

 

Compostable Packaging Disintegration at Composting Facilities

https://www.closedlooppartners.com/research/compostable-packaging-disintegration-at-composting-facilities/

 

Something’s fishy with composting at D.C. farmers markets

https://wamu.org/story/24/04/05/dc-composting-farmers-markets/

 

PCFWC & ReFED find ‘real food waste reductions at scale’ in a new study of West Coast US grocery retailers

https://agfundernews.com/pcfwc-refed-find-real-food-waste-reductions-at-scale-in-a-new-study-of-west-coast-us-grocery-retailers

 

Bellevue High Schools go green with composting initiative

https://omaha.com/news/community/sarpy/bellevue-high-schools-go-green-with-composting-initiative/article_33ac217e-7d24-53a9-83af-3fafea286d86.html



“field-to-fork-to-field.”

A closed loop makes for open doors at Durham College

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/adv/article-a-closed-loop-makes-for-open-doors-at-durham-college/

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Green Mission News – May, 2021

Class ConsciousnessCan’t Combine View: We must understand relationship between economy and ecology https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/et-evoke/view-we-must-understand-relationship-between-economy-and-ecology/articleshow/81876857.cms Changing our ways? Behaviour change and the climate crisisThe report of the Cambridge

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Green Mission News – Earth Month 2021

What a 40-year experiment can tell us about organic food. Takeaways from Rodale Institute’s Farming Systems Trial. https://peeled.substack.com/p/what-a-40-year-experiment-can-tell Transform school meals to nourish kids and

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Green Mission News – December, 2020

For sustainable business, ‘planetary boundaries’ define the new rules https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/for-sustainable-business-planetary-boundaries-define-the-new-rules/ What could a good green recovery plan actually look like? What do governments across the

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Green Mission News – July 2020

A greener economy: how we make sustainability central to business  https://theconversation.com/a-greener-economy-how-we-make-sustainability-central-to-business-139086   The Path Beyond Extinction and Escape:  Return to Earth, Regenerate and Share Message for

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Green Mission News – May 2020

From Emergency to Emergence.   The pandemic has also exposed extreme vulnerabilities in the global market economy, including its long and highly specialized linear supply chains,

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Green Mission News – Earth Month 2020

Ecological Reflections on the Corona virus From the forests, to our farms, to our gut microbiome https://navdanyainternational.org/one-planet-one-health-connected-through-biodiversity/ Coronavirus pandemic leading to huge drop in air

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Green Mission News – March 2020

Al Gore promotes carbon markets, regenerative agriculture at D.C. conference https://thefern.org/ag_insider/al-gore-promotes-carbon-markets-regenerative-agriculture-at-d-c-conference/ How to support your children in turning climate angst into climate action https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/how-support-your-children-turning-climate-angst-climate-action/  

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Green Mission News – February, 2020

Banking on Climate? https://www.ran.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Banking_on_Climate_Change_2019_vFINAL1.pdf Hundreds of workers defy Amazon rules to protest company’s climate failures Employees ‘needed to stand up for what’s right’ despite policy

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Green Mission News – January 2020

Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon https://theconversation.com/statistic-of-the-decade-the-massive-deforestation-of-the-amazon-128307 Greta Thunberg named Time magazine’s person of the year Teen activist lauded by magazine

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Green Mission News – October 2019

‘Genius’ Grant Goes To Marine Scientist Who Embraces Flash Mobs And Comic Books https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/09/25/763456317/genius-grant-goes-to-marine-scientist-who-embraces-flash-mobs-and-comic-books Is Compost the Secret to Making Ag Climate Friendly? A new

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Green Mission News – September 2019

Greta Thunberg’s Transatlantic Sailing Trip Is Seriously Carbon-Neutral https://cleantechnica.com/2019/08/22/greta-thunbergs-transatlantic-sailing-trip-is-seriously-carbon-neutral/   Walter Jehne – The Soil Carbon Sponge, Climate Solutions and Healthy Water Cycles (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123y7jDdbfY

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Green Mission News – July 2019

  A new generation of leaders understands that individual actions won’t fix our environmental problems By defining environmental citizenship as responsible consumption, sustainability advocates downplay

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Green Mission News – June 2019

Climate change and biodiversity should be top headline news (David Suzuki) http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2019/05/climate-change-and-biodiversity-should-be-top-headline-news We’re Not the Class of 2019. We’re the Class of 0000. Deliver a

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Green Mission News – May 2019

A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/4/eaaw2869 AND New paper proposes a science-based ‘Global Deal for Nature’ https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/new-paper-proposes-a-science-based-global-deal-for-nature/ Why Is Going

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Green Mission News – March 2019

US Youth Climate Strikes https://www.youthclimatestrikeus.org/ Becoming Greta: ‘Invisible Girl’ to Global Climate Activist, With Bumps Along the Way https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/climate/greta-thunburg.html THIS IS A CRISIS FACING UP

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Green Mission News – October 2018

California Climate Strategy An Integrated Plan for Addressing Climate Change http://www.climatechange.ca.gov   New study finds incredibly high carbon pollution costs – especially for the US

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