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It's Never too Early, Part 2

The approaching holiday season is a good time to think about ways to reduce waste and promote wasted food reduction to stakeholders in our communities. NERC’s new Food Recovery Hierarchy Compendium--Programs and Strategies contains many examples of municipal, regional, state, university, and nonprofit organizations promoting waste food reduction.

Art, Found Objects, and Stuff

Two exhibits at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) bring together the ideas of repurposing and the changing landscape of our consumer culture, production, and transportation into an increasingly digital world of the internet, automation, and 3D printers.

Protecting the World’s Largest Geyser Ecosystem with Recycled Tires

Among the uses for recycled tires is pavement. Yellowstone National Park has so far paved 11,100 square feet of pathway with an innovative eco-friendly paving material that is manufactured in part from recycled tires the recycled material, replacing aged crumbling asphalt paths.

It’s Never too Early

The holiday season will be upon us in no time. It’s always a good time to think about ways to reduce food waste, but during the holidays it becomes even more important since the volume of food waste generated rises dramatically.

September 27 — “Silent Spring” Published (1962)

Published in 1962, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring helped to launch the modern environmental movement and still inspires environmentalists today.

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