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Mushroom Composting

Scientists make breakthrough discovery in farm compost that boosts crop performance: ‘The results show significant growth’

It also reduced the amount of antibiotic-resistant genes and other organic pollutants.

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/mushroom-composting-agriculture-waste-fertilizer/

Mushroom-based composting can cut farm waste, pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-mushroom-based-composting-farm-pathogens.html

Fruit waste: The untapped organic manure in your backyard 

https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/magazines/farming/fruit-waste-the-untapped-organic-manure-in-your-backyard-5054950#story

Rethinking Food Waste Led to This Colorado Restaurant’s Crowd-Favorite Condiments

A zero waste mindset in the kitchen transformed a burnt carrot into irresistible ash salt.

https://www.foodandwine.com/blackbelly-boulder-colorado-sustainability-11731683

Food Waste Reduction App Comes to New Orleans

https://bizneworleans.com/food-waste-reduction-app-comes-to-new-orleans/

This Ice Cream Company Has Diverted 40,000 Pounds of Food Waste Into Innovative Flavors

https://www.aol.com/ice-cream-company-diverted-40-092600252.html

From waste to world class compost

https://www.cowraguardian.com.au/regional/from-waste-to-world-class-compost

Restoring soil with innovation

https://www.nst.com.my/business/feature/2025/05/1218088/restoring-soil-innovation

Kem Ormond’s vegetable garden: Worm farms – a guide to getting started

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/kem-ormonds-vegetable-garden-worm-farms-a-guide-to-getting-started/DDHG66VV6ZH4XAIUIOZWSXM4KI/

Can Michigan Fix Its Food Waste Problem With Composting?

Two pioneering efforts in Detroit’s Riverbend neighborhood are transforming food waste into nutrient-rich soil. Across Michigan, cities and schools are launching similar programs.

https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/can-michigan-fix-its-food-waste-problem-with-composting

What’s Old Is New Again: Age-Old Practice of Composting Gains Traction in R.I.

https://ecori.org/whats-old-is-new-again-age-old-practice-of-composting-gains-traction-in-r-i/

Veteran USA lawmakers push sweeping bill that could reshape daily habits nationwide: ‘A true win-win for our communities’

“This is a commonsense step toward a more sustainable food system.”

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/composting-government-programs-bill/

Farmers encouraged to use compost to boost soil health and productivity 

https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20250521/farmers-encouraged-use-compost-boost-soil-health-and-productivity

Food Waste Policies in Three Countries (South Korea, France, and Peru): Are They Working?

https://foodtank.com/news/2025/05/food-waste-policies-in-three-countries-are-they-working/

It’s Composting Time! Community Program Launched at Pitney Meadows (NY)

https://saratogatodaynewspaper.com/its-composting-time-community-program-launched-at-pitney-meadows/

Oregonians Call for Solutions to Food Waste

This spring, OSPIRG canvassers went door to door across the state to build support for tackling food waste in Oregon.

https://pirg.org/oregon/updates/oregonians-call-for-solutions-to-food-waste/

Community composters in Mexilhoeira Grande are already bearing fruit

https://www.sulinformacao.pt/en/2025/05/compostores-comunitarios-da-mexilhoeira-grande-ja-dao-frutos/




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GEME Breaks New Ground in World’s First Bio Waste Composter Machine

 https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/news/marketers-media/geme-breaks-new-ground-world-s-141031169.html#ixzz8fQMtYr81

 

How major food manufacturers are cutting food waste 

Food manufacturers are prioritising food-waste reduction at all stages of production, and in doing so, are reducing costs too. 

https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2024/07/03/How-Mondelez-and-Kraft-Heinz-are-cutting-food-waste 

Ways for food retailers to reduce waste

Independent retailers can lead the charge on slashing single-use plastics and reducing the amount of food waste being sent to landfill – here’s how

https://www.specialityfoodmagazine.com/news/ways-for-food-retailers-to-reduce-waste

 

Nature Fresh Farms using AI technology to help develop more sustainable farming

https://www.am800cklw.com/news/nature-fresh-farms-using-ai-technology-to-help-develop-more-sustainable-farming.html

 

Lineage unveils a Global Food Chain Innovation Challenge to combat food waste

https://www.foodanddrinktechnology.com/news/53727/lineage-unveils-a-global-food-chain-innovation-challenge-to-combat-food-waste/

 

City of Sonoma awards 10-year waste disposal contract to longtime local partners

Waste disposal provider Sonoma Garbage Collectors will increase rates by 20% and update practices to comply with state regulations

https://www.sonomanews.com/article/news/sonoma-local-garbage-collectors-contract

A robot is helping turn food waste into compost in Detroit 

https://www.bridgedetroit.com/a-robot-is-helping-turn-food-waste-into-compost-in-detroit/

Using crop waste to develop biobased plastics 

https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/using-crop-waste-to-develop-biobased-plastics/

Coming full circle
Momentum for composting is growing – will the buck(et) stop in Durango?

https://www.durangotelegraph.com/news/top-stories/coming-full-circle/

Phoenix’s food waste reduction program supporting local restaurants enters 2nd phase

https://www.kjzz.org/news/2024-07-08/phoenixs-food-waste-reduction-program-enters-its-second-phase

Food Scraps Recycling Drop-off at the West Community Market Begins on July 20, 2024

https://www.cityofmadison.com/news/2024-07-08/food-scraps-recycling-drop-off-at-the-west-community-market-begins-on-july-20-2024

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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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Green Mission News – May 2018

Closing the Loop, the world’s first feature-length documentary film on the circular economy.   “Unless we go to Circular it’s game over for the planet; it’s game over

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Green Mission News – November 2017

The Woman Aiming to Get 50 Million Americans Into the Worker-Owner Economy And she has a plan to do it. http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/the-woman-aiming-to-get-50-million-americans-into-the-worker-owner-economy-20171026 Global atmospheric CO2 levels

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Green Mission News – August 2017

A Soil Scientist with a Plan for a More Resilient Food System http://www.gracelinks.org/blog/8074/building-a-more-resilient-food-system-requires-a-paradigm-s Earth is becoming ‘Planet Plastic’ http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40654915 and Production, use, and fate of

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