Food Waste causes Climate Change. Here's how we stop it.

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In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at the problem of food waste. Specifically, I look at how food waste both in America and across the world is a massive problem for climate change, the environment, and hunger. By addressing food waste in farms, grocery stores, and at home, we could potentially feed billions of people and curb the massive emissions generated to make food and from food waste that ends up in the landfill. There are some pretty simple fixes to food waste like creating a shopping list, using guides to figure out when your food actually spoils, or creating a compost area and then composting food scraps. As a Vox video on the topic puts it, food waste is the world's dumbest problem. But if we address food waste head-on, we will be well on our way to solving climate change and mitigating world hunger.

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Resources:

1. Reduced Food Waste (Drawdown)

2. Food waste is the world's dumbest problem (Vox via YouTube)

3. 27 Solutions to Food Waste (ReFed)

4. A Holistic Approach to Reducing Food Waste (NRDC)

5. Food wastage footprint & Climate Change (FAO)

6. Consumer Choice and Food WasteCan Nudging Help? (Bolos et al.)

7. Just Eat ItA Food Waste Story (Grant Baldwin via YouTube)

8. Key characteristics and success factors of supply chain initiatives tackling consumerrelated food waste A multiple case study (AschemannWitzel et al.)

9. About Food Waste (Move For Hunger)

10. EXPIRED? Food Waste in America (via Youtube)

11. Wasted How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill (NRDC)

12. The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and Its Environmental Impact (Hall et al.)

13. Study Finds FarmLevel Food Waste is Much Worse Than We Thought (Civil Eats)

14. Onfarm food loss in northern and central CaliforniaResults of field survey measurements (Baker et al.)

15. Refrigerators and Freezers (Appliance Awareness Standards Project)

16. Reducing Food Loss and WasteSetting a Global Action Agenda (World Resources Institute)

17. Portion Size MeDownsizing Our Consumption Norms (Wansink & Van Ittersum))%20Wansink,%20van%20Ittersum%20%202007%20%20Portion%20Size%20Me%20%20Downsizing%20Our%20Consumption%20Norms.pdf

18. Eat By Date

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