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Broken Bread
Broken Bread
Bracken's Kitchen: Bringing Food to People in Need
Post date:Bracken's Kitchen is a Garden Grove-based non-profit that provides meals to organizations that help feed people in need.
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Broken Bread
Broken Bread
L.A. Kitchen: Battling Food Issues on Many Fronts
Post date:Over the course of six years, the L.A. Kitchen developed a multi-pronged approach to address the interconnected issues of hunger, food waste and employment opportunities in Los Angeles.
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food waste
LA Foodways
What a World War I Poster Can Teach Us About Food Waste
Post date:World War I changed America. It also left behind lessons that we should still heed today — especially when it comes to our relationship with food.
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food waste
LA Foodways
Re-connecting With Our Food: The Power of Good Food Policymaking
Post date:Food Policy Councils help connect the dots between the fields and our forks. They are convening diverse people across the food chain to discuss good food practices and policies that result in healthier populations.
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food justice
Food & Living
How Angelenos Are Using Food Waste To Their Advantage
Post date:Feeding the 5000 is a traveling global event featuring meals made entirely from food waste. The Los Angeles event, which was held in early May in Pershing Square, rescued 12,800 pounds of produce and served 5,440 meals to the public.
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environment
SoCal Connected
A Great Use for UC Irvine’s Garbage
Post date:Food scraps from UC Irvine’s commissary used to be sent to landfills where it produced destructive greenhouse gases.
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food waste
Food & Living
How Californians Are Fighting Food Waste on the Farm, at the Store and at Home
Post date:The amount of food wasted is not only shocking when we consider that around one in six Americans lack access to sufficient amounts of affordable, nutritious food but it also means tremendous amounts of valuable resources are wasted.
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food rant
Food
Buying in Bulk Creates More Waste
Post date:It's estimated that American throws away $400 worth of food a year, and households with children throw away almost $1,000 worth of food a year.
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food technology
Food
App Details When Food Really Expires
Post date:The team leader of the new USDA app talks about trying to reduce food waste through technology.
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Food
New FoodKeeper App from USDA Helps Fight Food Waste
Post date:The app also includes tips on recommended cooking temperatures for meats and answers questions about food safety.
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food banks
Food
AmpleHarvest.org Connects Food Pantries to Neighborhood Gardens
Post date:Gary Oppenheimer, founder of AmpleHarvest.org, explains why it's a challenge to donate harvested food to local food banks.
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food rant
Food
The Fighting Hunger Incentives Act: Whose Interests Does it Really Serve?
Post date:The proposal seems like a slam dunk, but why is the White House threatening to veto it?
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food rant
Food
How Americans Waste Food, And How We Can Stop
Post date:Consumer waste is a huge problem in North America but we can take small steps to combat it.
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food rant
Food
How to Dumpster Dive in L.A.
Post date:Dumpster diving is technically legal in L.A., but there are other issues to consider before jumping into the practice.
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Home & Garden
California Startup Converts Food Waste Into Fertilizer in Just 3 Hours
Post date:California Safe Soil converts organic food waste into liquid fertilizer through aerobic digestion.
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SoCal Connected
Second Helpings: The Challenge of Getting Food to the Hungry
Post date:At the end of banquets and catered events, untouched food is often scraped from plates, tossed into dumpsters and dumped into landfills. In L.A. County alone, more than one million tons of food is dumped into area landfills.
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dumpster diving
SoCal Connected
Dumpster Divers: Preventing Food Waste
Dumpster Divers: Preventing Food Waste
Post date:A group of environmentalists from Highland Park are on a mission to salvage food that would have otherwise gone to waste.
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food waste
Food
6 Simple Ways to Curb Food Waste at Home
Post date:Take a few simple steps to curb food waste in your household, and you might just find yourself eating better in the process.