Each of these 15 websites explores the complex relationship between food and the environment.
Food Waste
U.S. Food Waste Challenge: A new USDA and EPA partnership to reduce waste across the food system
The U.S. Food Waste Challenge is a public-private partnership seeking to reduce, recover, and recycle food waste.
Reducing Waste: Five Tips For Creating A Smaller Menu
Here are five tips from sustainability expert Greg Christian on scaling down menus to address food waste in restaurants.
Food Waste Fighter: An Interview with Jonathan Bloom
In this Food Tank interview, Jonathan Bloom explains why the issue of food waste is important, and what is being done about it.
Food, A Value to Defend: Guido Barilla’s Forward to Combating Waste
This forward by Guido Barilla, President of the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition (BCFN), is part of the most recent issue of BCFN’s magazine.
Finding Ways to Prevent Food Waste and Loss on World Environment Day
World Environment Day on June 5th is focusing international attention on food waste.
Food Hero Series: Interview with Selina Juul
Food Tank interviews Selina Juul, Danish food waste expert and founder of the Stop Wasting Food movement in preparation for World Environment Day.
FAO Food Wastage Footprint Project Highlights Best Practices
The FAO launches the Food Wastage Project to document best practices in food waste reduction and quantify the global impacts of food waste on the environment.
Excess Fat from London Restaurants to be Used as Fuel for Energy Plant
Cooking waste set to run London power plant
40 Organizations That Are Shaking Up the Food System
These 40 organizations are doing invaluable work to change the way we eat, grow, cook, buy, and sell food.
10 Movies About the Food Movement Worth Watching
Here are 10 food documentaries worth watching to learn more about issues in the food system.
ICCR Issues Statement of Principles on Sustainable, Equitable Food Production
The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility offers recommendations on how corporate responsibility can promote access to safe and sustainable food.
Goldman Environmental Prize Recipient: Rossano Ercolini
Goldman Prize winner, Rossano Ercolini fought to keep a waste incinerator from being built in his village and advocated for sustainable waste management.
Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Releases Proposals and Solutions for Protecting the Planet
The Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition is releasing a set of proposals and solutions for protecting the environment through changing the food system.
Youth Fighting Food Waste on College Campuses
U.S. universities are adopting policies that reduce campus food waste and divert surplus waste to composting or food banks.
Reducing Food Waste by Accepting “Wonky” Vegetables
Supermarkets are wasting huge amounts of food by refusing to sell aesthetically imperfect produce. How can we resolve this?
Isha Datar’s In Vitro Meat
Isha Datar offers a novel–and possibly environmentally friendly–solution to meat production by growing muscle cells in vitro.
Food Hero Series: Tony Allan, Water Policy Innovator
How much water is in your food? More than you might think. Food Hero Tony Allan shows how food and water policy are connected.
Food Workers at O’Hare Airport Recommend Sustainable Food Options in New Report
UNITE HERE food workers reveal vision for sustainable food at O’Hare Airport in a new report, which recommends cooking fresh, healthy meals using local produce and reducing food waste.
College Students Reducing Food Waste
Every year one-third of all food – or 1.3 million tons- is lost or wasted, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. In the U.S. alone, food waste totals nearly 40 million tons of food annually. Three years ago, three college…
