What started as a community idea for Earth Day has now grown into a multi-faceted project focused on reducing food waste and is explored in this webinar by Amy Rowe, Associate Professor/Count Agent affiliated with Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Essex and Passaic Counties in New Jersey. By following the journey of an apple from orchard to consumer, the webinar examines in detail where excessive water, energy, and fossil fuels are often wasted. With practical at-home tips such as understanding labeling, expiration dates, and composting, Amy’s informative webinar is a great place to learn more about how you can fight food waste.
TED Talk: The Trek Toward a Trash-Free Life
Everyone loves a TED Talk! Here is one of our favorites:
NYU Environmental Studies graduate Lauren Singer can fit the amount of trash she has produced over the past three years in one 16 oz mason jar. By taking a critical look at her own values and lifestyle (and by picking apart the contents of her garbage pail), Singer learned that living waste-free has improved her life and her community. Her blog has empowered millions of readers to produce less waste by refusing plastic packaging and single-use items, shopping package-free, and making their own products at home.
In this TedTalk, the author of Zero Waste Blog and founder of organic cleaning product company, The Simply Co., details her journey toward a waste-free lifestyle.
Ted Talk: How to find joy in climate action
Everyone loves a TED Talk. Here is one of our favorites:
It’s not news to any of us how vital the efforts to slow climate change are. But are we truly utilizing our resources in the best possible way? In this TEDTalk, climate leader, marine biologist and co-founder of the nonprofit Urban Ocean Lab Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, urges us to tap into our skills, resources and networks to find what brings satisfaction. Johnson suggests mapping out these important questions: What are you good at? What is the work that needs doing? And what brings you joy? The places where you find your answers overlapping is exactly where your climate action efforts should be focused.
“Averting climate catastrophe: this is the work of our lifetimes,” Johnson says.