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In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at the problem of food waste. Specifically, I look at how food waste both in America and across the world is a massive problem for climate change, the environment, and hunger. By addressing food waste in farms, grocery stores, and at home, we could potentially feed billions of people and curb the massive emissions generated to make food and from food waste that ends up in the landfill. There are some pretty simple fixes to food waste like creating a shopping list, using guides to figure out when your food actually spoils, or creating a compost area and then composting food scraps. As a Vox video on the topic puts it, food waste is the world’s dumbest problem. But if we address food waste head-on, we will be well on our way to solving climate change and mitigating world hunger.

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Resources:
1. Reduced Food Waste (Drawdown): https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/reduced-food-waste
2. Food waste is the world’s dumbest problem (Vox via YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RlxySFrkIM
3. 27 Solutions to Food Waste (ReFed): https://www.refed.com/?sort=economic-value-per-ton
4. A Holistic Approach to Reducing Food Waste (NRDC): https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/holistic-approach-reducing-food-waste-fs.pdf
5. Food wastage footprint & Climate Change (FAO): http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/nr/sustainability_pathways/docs/FWF_and_climate_change.pdf
6. Consumer Choice and Food Waste: Can Nudging Help? (Bolos et al.): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331207943_Consumer_Choice_and_Food_Waste_Can_Nudging_Help
7. Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story (Grant Baldwin via YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR1Y-ieyfjU
8. Key characteristics and success factors of supply chain initiatives tackling consumer-related food waste – A multiple case study (Aschemann-Witzel et al.): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652616320352
9. About Food Waste (Move For Hunger): https://www.moveforhunger.org/food-waste
10. EXPIRED? Food Waste in America (via Youtube): https://youtu.be/CcP-VxzevZ4
11. Wasted – How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill (NRDC): https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/wasted-2017-report.pdf
12. The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and Its Environmental Impact (Hall et al.): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0007940
13. Study Finds Farm-Level Food Waste is Much Worse Than We Thought (Civil Eats): https://civileats.com/2019/08/20/study-finds-farm-level-food-waste-is-much-worse-than-we-thought/
14. On-farm food loss in northern and central California: Results of field survey measurements (Baker et al.): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344919301296
15. Refrigerators and Freezers (Appliance Awareness Standards Project): https://appliance-standards.org/product/refrigerators-and-freezers
16. Reducing Food Loss and Waste: Setting a Global Action Agenda (World Resources Institute): https://wriorg.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/reducing-food-loss-waste-global-action-agenda_0.pdf
17. Portion Size Me: Downsizing Our Consumption Norms (Wansink & Van Ittersum): http://www.meta-systems.eu/nickbrown/duplication/PortionSizeMe/(Annotated%20vs%202013)%20Wansink,%20van%20Ittersum%20-%202007%20-%20Portion%20Size%20Me%20-%20Downsizing%20Our%20Consumption%20Norms.pdf
18. Eat By Date: https://www.eatbydate.com/