In addition to being my brother’s birthday, Saturday is (the) International Climate Day of Action. 350.org, has issued this call to action to get our atmospheric CO2 below 350 parts per million. It’s imperative stuff. You can find local events on the site, and don’t forget that reducing food waste helps the environment, too.
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The Times ran a page one, zero waste article on Monday, including composting. From where I blog, the whole idea of being responsible with our waste is heating up. Now if we can only move toward reducing our amount of waste.
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Converted Organics, a Boston-based, in-vessel composting firm, just signed a deal with a leading waste hauler. The move guarantees them a nice supply of food waste to convert to an organic fertilizer.
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Just in case you weren’t feel queasy today, now you are. Looks like America isn’t the only place cursed with massive portion sizes.
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¡¡Wet blanket alert!! Now’s the time when I play the grumpy blogger who asks: Is this food waste-as-entertainment necessary?
For some reason, I don’t mind this as much as the food fight I recently wrote about. At least there’s a bit of a cultural excuse for Halloween pranks. And Rainn Wilson is a pretty funny guy (and Tweeter). That said, I could live without this piece and the Jay Leno Show from whence it came.
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Today was not a good food waste day. :-
What do you mean by that, William?
I wonder what happened to the rest of my post? Here it is again. (Well, sort of again.)
I went out to eat, a Tex-Mex place. Good food, serving sizes suited to us.
Except.
The restaurant’s policy apparently is customers shall never run out of snacks. This is implemented by replacing not-yet-empty bowls of chips and salsa with more bowls. Without asking if we wanted it or not. The second set went almost entirely uneaten and I’m sure went entirely in the trash.
I actually considered taking the chips & salsa home to compost, but we were going out afterward so a doggie bag was impractical.