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The Woman Bringing a Healthy Alternative to Soda to Her Community

in Business Feature / Consumption / Earth Friendly Living / Environment / Food / Growing Food / Inspirational / Resource Conservation / Sharing by Amy Zelt April 25, 2017June 12, 2017 0 comments

Meet Jing Chen, Founder of JinBuCha. She’s serving up a healthy alternative to soda in her community. The average American drinks 45 gallons of soda per year, and over 1/3rd of Americans are obese. We all know soda makes people fat and contributes to diseases like diabetes, but many of us don’t know there’s a healthy and refreshing alternative!

This Urban Farmer is Turning a Food Desert into a Food Paradise.

in Do Good / Earth Friendly Living / Environment / Food / Growing Food / Health and Happiness / Inspirational / Resource Conservation / Service / Sharing / Simple Living by Amy Zelt April 25, 2017June 12, 2017 0 comments

Meet David Young, the urban farmer in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. He came here in 2010 from Indiana and stayed because of a “calling from god.” Since then he has started gardens on 30 abandoned lots leftover from Hurricane Katrina.

The Woman Spreading Heirloom Seeds Across Her Community

in Business Feature / Consciousness / Earth Friendly Living / Environment / Food / Growing Food / Inspirational / Resource Conservation / San Diego / Service by Amy Zelt April 25, 2017August 23, 2017 0 comments

Guest Blog by: Brijette Romstedt

It all started with a little glass tea cup with adorable pink flowers etched on them. In this tea cup, I would store seeds delicately chosen from only the most outstanding plants in the garden. Those tea cups quickly overflowed. The excess was put in glass jars in the closet until that closet overflowed.

Rescuing Fresh Produce for People in Need

in Consciousness / Consumption / Do Good / Earth Friendly Living / Environment / Food / Health and Happiness / Inspirational / Nonprofit Feature / Resource Conservation / Sharing / Simple Living by Amy Zelt March 20, 2017June 12, 2017 0 comments

This urban foraging program is giving fresh fruits and veggies to thousands of people in need, and it’s all food that would have otherwise gone to waste. Millions of Americans have little to no access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Concrete Jungle is changing that by giving out freshly picked produce for free!

Turning Lawns into Gardens on Bicycles!

in Consciousness / Consumption / Do Good / Earth Friendly Living / Environment / Food / Growing Food / Health and Happiness / Inspirational / Nonprofit Feature / Resource Conservation / Service / Simple Living by Amy Zelt March 20, 2017June 12, 2017 0 comments

This urban farming program is leading a local food revolution by turning lawns into food gardens on bicycles! Homeowners and renters donate the use of their lawn, Fleet Farming does the work and the donor gets a share of the fruits and veggies.

Meet the Composters on Bikes!

in Business Feature / Consumption / Do Good / Earth Friendly Living / Environment / Food / Health and Happiness / Resource Conservation / Simple Living by Amy Zelt March 19, 2017June 12, 2017 0 comments

Meet the Composters on Bikes!

Let Us Compost is a curbside composting service for homes, businesses, and events. They started in 2012 with one truck and this year they began picking up by bike. They currently pick up from over 170 homes and businesses. Customers are given a bucket, kitchen pail, and biodegradable bags when they sign up.

How to Grow Food for Free in the City

in Consciousness / Consumption / Earth Friendly Living / Environment / Food / Forget Money / Freedom / Growing Food / Resource Conservation / Simple Living / Social Issues / Tips by Rob Greenfield March 17, 2017March 16, 2018 0 comments

There are many limiting ideas floating around out there about growing your own food. Many think you need a lot of money to do it. Some think it’s too time consuming. Some think they don’t have enough space. Others feel that they just don’t have a green enough thumb. All of these ideas are totally understandable but the reality is that if we really truly want to, we can all grow some food. Sure, we can’t all have a fruitful acre of farm land but we can all have at least one little windowsill herb garden, one balcony tomato plant, some planters on our porch, a plot in a community garden, a small garden on someone else’s unused land, or something of that sort. With some initiative we can all grow some food!

Food Waste Activism and Dumpster Diving Resource Guide

in #DonateNotDump / Dumpster Diving / Earth Friendly Living / Environment / Food by Rob Greenfield January 6, 2017February 2, 2018 0 comments

If you are interested in being a part of the solution to food waste then this is the place for you. I’ve been passionately working to bring attention to food waste and hunger since 2013 and over the last 3.5 years have created a lot of videos, blogs and guides to help people get involved in this cause. In this resource guide I’ve brought it all together in one place to give you a plethora of ideas, inspiration, and information to be a part of the solution to food waste. Whether it’s starting your own food rescue program, helping with existing programs or you just want to dumpster dive for food, I’ve got you covered here.

To start, here’s a playlist of food waste and dumpster diving videos:

The Dumpster Divers Defense Fund

in #DonateNotDump / Do Good / Dumpster Diving / Food / Social Issues by Rob Greenfield January 6, 2017January 21, 2018 0 comments

Meet Tony Moyer and Sam Troyer, brothers-in-law in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. They’ve been dumpster diving for 10 months, collecting Thousands of dollars’ worth of good food and donating it to people in need. But in October they were arrested for dumpster diving at a CVS and charged with loitering and prowling at night as well as criminal trespassing.

Near Zero Waste Food in a Food Desert

in Consumption / Earth Friendly Living / Environment / Food / Tips by Rob Greenfield December 20, 2016December 22, 2016 0 comments

Trying to go zero waste in a low income area neighborhood vs. a wealthy neighborhood can result in two very different stories. To read a guide written by someone in downtown posh Manhattan that only sees zero waste through their own lens could prove to be a little disappointing for someone living in a low income area. I often hear that going zero waste is only something that wealthy people can do. For the most part I disagree with this statement however there is some truth in it. In certain ways going zero waste is much easier for people who live in wealthier neighborhoods that have more options. For example many low income areas don’t have easy access to a grocery store with a bulk refill section and thus have to buy more packaged foods. This one variable alone makes it much more difficult to zero waste grocery shop.