ACW Climate Action Team

It is so hard to imagine how much food goes into landfills everyday. One of the things that really sticks in my mind after watching "Wasted" is that it takes 25 years for a head of lettuce to decompose in a landfill. I think people really need to hear facts like this. It was very encouraging to hear about how other countries like...

It’s hard to believe today is the last day of a challenge. It went really quickly! It’s also the last day of my current apartment complex, where I’ve been for two years, a little bit, bittersweet leaving, however, in the context of food waste challenge. It was sort of satisfying that when I emptied my freezer, I was able to give my neighbor...

My fridge is all of a sudden almost bare, just in time for my "national holiday tradition" of cleaning either the fridge, the shower, or both. Time to apply what was learned/observed this month. I had fallen out of the habit of reading labels for high fructose corn syrup - don't buy. I will go back to that, plus look at expiration...

This has been a fun challenge. Next year, I want to grow more of my own produce, especially green beans, tomatoes, and carrots.

Someone reminded me of the back-to-school BBQ that is held at the Culinary Wellness Center on Plymouth Ave., it's September 18 from 4-7. It's great to see how the Minneapolis school district is changing over from the soul-less prepacks of previous decades, and making it fun for students to embrace healthy and cross-cultural eating....

So far I've hardly thrown out anything but I know the thing that gets thrown out the most for me is salsa. I hardly ever buy it because I can't eat a whole jar myself before it goes bad. Other things that have been thrown out in my household are because it gets left at the studio and mixed up with our employees food so my husband doesn't know...

I save recipes in a folder on my computer. A new thing I do when I find a recipe online but don't want to scroll through the exhaustive paragraphs about their family life and childhood memories is hit Print. It collapses the recipe into a single page of the necessary information. :)

Pulled another day at the fair, and learned that MPCA (Minnesota Pollution Control Agency) is interviewing vendors there relating to all kinds of waste. Only got a quick introduction but would like to know more - and the results. I assume there's a lot of consumer waste with people buying food they then decide they can't eat all of...I like the...

I would say I don't have a problem with eating things I make, or restaurant foods as leftovers. However, my favorite left over is burrito bowls. We never have any meat left, but the cilantro/lime rice and roasted vegies make a great actual burrito for lunch the next day.

I've noticed a lot of mulberry trees near me, and eaten some of those. I've also found Chicken of the Woods. But I don't trust my knowledge with most mushrooms and berries I see, so I don't end up foraging much! For gleaning, I have discovered an app called Too Good to Go, which sells leftover food from restaurants at a discount...though I'm a...