Linking Recovery and Prevention
Earlier this month I attended the Food Recovery Network’s (FRN) annual conference in Washington, D.C. The National Food Recovery Dialogue – or NFRD 2017 – brought together a host of […]
Category Archives: Sustainability and Resource Optimization
Food Waste: What If…?
Late last month I was fortunate to attend the NYC Food Waste Fair at the Brooklyn Expo Center. The event was billed as a “soup to nuts” approach to food […]
Expired Food, Real Food
Last month I had the opportunity to speak with Adam Smith, founder of The Real Junk Food Project – a unique organization contributing to the global food waste reduction effort […]
Making Sense of Food Waste
Earlier this month I was pleased to return to California for a special conference on “all things food” at Occidental College in Los Angeles, aka “Oxy.” The conference was the […]
Dynamic Collaboration For Sustainability
Earlier this month I journeyed to Italy for a very special trip with my University of Pennsylvania Organizational Dynamics students for an international version of my Global Pennovation class entitled “Global Collaboration […]
Move Food, Move Lives
While in Singapore last month for Carrier/UTC’s third annual World Cold Chain Summit (a powerful venue focused on reducing global food loss and waste through an improved cold chain), I […]
From Conundrum to Clarity
Earlier this month I stopped by my local produce market, which is always chock full of pristine fruits and vegetables, and noted this imperfectly-shaped eggplant among its perfectly-sized and shaped […]
Maximizing Momentum on Organics
Suddenly, and happily, we are seeing great momentum on the topic of excess food at all levels of the hierarchy — from source reduction to recovery and diversion for people, […]
A Question of Value
Last month I had another one of those serendipitous experiences in the food waste space that are seemingly becoming ever more frequent. I was in Portland for a discussion with Chellie […]
Serving Affordable Nutrition Daily
Affordable, convenient, highly nutritious food — in an urban area where residents have lacked access to healthy food choices. Sounds great, and it is. Couple that with the fact that much […]
