At schools across the nation, college students are graduating this weekend. In Logan, Utah, that means it’s time for a food drive. Huh?
Logan is home to Utah State University and more importantly, many student apartments. Knowing that students moving out will leave behind plenty of good food, Logan’s Environmental Department decided to collect non-perishable food from departing […]

If you’re like me, you could use a little help getting through your Tuesday. On that front, Weird Al never fails. Anyway, meet Violet, Gordon and the Gang of Misfit Fruits (and Veggies):

Wow. We sure do love to anthropomorphize food, but they’re effective spokespeople. Also, isn’t it a bit odd that these fruits and veggies […]

I went to a meeting of the Food Diversion Task Force yesterday and left thinking about food banks. A representative from the local food bank told the group how donations are down significantly.
As food prices rise and manufacturers consolidate, there is more emphasis placed on reducing “shrink,” or product that they can’t market. While food […]

Here’s an article from the newspaper at Iowa’s Luther College, giving the student response to traylessness. The piece was fueled largely by the Facebook group “Caf Trays will destroy the planet!!!! Really?????,” which prompted a letter to the editor complaining about a lack of balance.
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Food recovery in the holy land. Hallelujah!
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Fallen Fruit is […]

One of my favorite food recovery topics is backyard gleaning, where volunteers collect unwanted fruit from residential trees. If I had a tree producing anything edible, I’d be all over it. And no, acorn soup doesn’t taste good.
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Kudos to Jack Davis, an 11-year-old Florida boy, for prodding Florida legislators to pass a law protecting […]

Bless those Seattlites. From where I stand, they’re way ahead of the curve:
They recycle household food waste, or at least they will starting in 2009.
They provide great advice on food waste, quoting excellent experts (scroll to the end).
They recycle food at Mariners games.
They recycle food at hospitals.
About 30 miles down the road in Everett, […]

I just had a mini photo essay published on a site called The Jew & the Carrot (”Jews, Food & Contemporary Issues” with gentiles cordially invited, natch). Hope it’s kosher to self-reference like this.
Anyway, it’s a decent collection of photos I’ve taken over the past year and a tolerable way to ease into your […]

The Academy Awards, in keeping with the de rigeur environmentalism, put out this laundry list of green achievements. While I didn’t see any stretched Prius limos lining up the red carpet…
Transportation offered by the Academy to presenters and staff included zero-emission hydrogen (25% of vehicles) and hybrid (60%) vehicles
Of the food-related bullet-points, most detailed how […]

Those crazy Brits are at it again, using chocolate waste (an oxymoron?) to power vehicles. The BioTruck team converts it into biodiesel and drove all the way to Timbuktu on the choco-fuel in “the world’s first carbon-negative expedition.”
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Staying in Britain, The Times has an interesting profile of the dame of food recycling, WRAP’s Liz Goodwin.
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As […]

Playing the role of Scrooge this (and most every) year, is Wal-Mart.
St. Louis’ KMOV-TV recently ran a great piece of investigative journalism on just how much food is wasted at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Clubs. The station went inside the belly of the beast and got some fascinating hidden camera footage.
The piece smartly details how numerous […]