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Boise River ReWild Project - presented by Cynthia Wallesz, Exec Director of the Golden Eagle Audubon Society

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Conservation Stewards Building the Ark . . . Taking the Idaho Riparian Forest Through a Time of Changing Climate© Another “Good News” Story from the Boise River Enhancement Network (BREN).

Presented by: Rob Tiedemann, Kim Chmura and Jan Egge

Link to Slides - Safe to Download - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qkyI7owvw77-y5i5e4beP-Skimac7Add/view?usp=sharing

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Q&A FROM The Boise River: How it went from Being Wild to Being Loved

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Q&A FROM The Boise River: How it went from Being Wild to Being Loved

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This question card was found on a chair after the Boise River session and we thought it might be good to share!

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Jeff Abrams, ICL, encouraged symposium attendees to TAKE ACTION FOR WILDLIFE!

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Slides: Wildlife in Idaho: Harmony and Change in Nature's Playground

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Slides: Wildlife in Idaho: Harmony and Change in Nature's Playground

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Slides from Jeff Abrams - Wildlife Program Associate from Idaho Conservation League (ICL) -- Link to Slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1664LwXBx30c5fjfQWBRjD03KBWlZfZwS/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104717207777438816196&rtpof=true&sd=true

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Video: What is The Food Hub in Boise? (3 min)

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Video: What is The Food Hub in Boise? (3 min)

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Our Presenting Sponsor - Idaho Botanical Gardens, Boise Farmers Market and City of Good coming together for good! In this 3 minute video, understand The Food Hub in Boise! Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RAifJFScQsR4Bmw8x4oZwO9tOGPaGvic/view?usp=sharing

or here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/n85wdv74vpy9npcf1a5g8/food_hub_2_no_direct_appeal.mov?rlkey=2a3fegnv16m7ij2c4ek07rqe3&st=uyi3udkb&dl=0

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The Global Gardens Food Hub connects beginning farmers and farmers with immigrant and refugee backgrounds with local consumers seeking fresh, spray-free produce. The Food Hub aggregates and…

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Slides: Sustainability & Opportunity: Idaho Stories

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Slides: Sustainability & Opportunity: Idaho Stories

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I’m excited to share my presentation slides, which provide a clear look at how sustainability is being driven both globally and locally. These slides highlight Idaho-based success stories alongside global trends in decarbonization, energy efficiency, and community action. With real examples, data, and actionable insights, they showcase how businesses and communities can meet sustainability goals while staying competitive. Enjoy!

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Curved Wall Slides from IWCF Symposium 2024

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Curved Wall Slides from IWCF Symposium 2024

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Summary of the 2024 Symposium - Our Shared Environment: LEAD! (Learn - Engage - Adapt - Discuss)

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2024 IWCF Symposium Curved Wall - Rotating Slides

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Slides: Solutions for Environmental Problems in a Changing World (BSU)

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Slides: Solutions for Environmental Problems in a Changing World (BSU)

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Slide Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EquTeb3vQvkxGmNV_8LTkVedsISXupeA/view?usp=sharing

Presented by:

Dr. Rebecca L. Som Castellano

Dr. Cynthia Curl

Dr. Jen Pierce

Dr. Kendra Fallon

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Slides:  Home Wise Eco-Hacks: Energy, Composting & Landscaping

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Slides:  Home Wise Eco-Hacks: Energy, Composting & Landscaping

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Presented by Megan Heryet, BUGS, Billie Jo McWinn, Idaho Power and Duran Villegas, Idaho Botanical Garden

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How Climate Affects Your Health, presented at the 2024 IWCF Symposium by Dr. Ethan Sims, Dr. William Weppner, and Dr. Melissa Roop

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I-CLEER - Dr. Jen Pierce, BSU Geosciences Dept.

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I-CLEER - Dr. Jen Pierce, BSU Geosciences Dept.

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Click on the picture to see research for a changing planet through I-CLEER.

Idaho Climate Literacy Education Engagement & Research (i-CLEER) empowers Idahoans and their communities to take action to address the causes, consequences and solutions to the Earth’s changing climate. i-CLEER develops and promotes existing strengths in climate change education, research and engagement throughout the state of Idaho, connects research with community-driven needs, and provides a strong platform for growth and leadership in climate literacy into the future.  By developing proactive resilience and climate justice, we will support climate leaders and climate solutions within our own communities.

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Idaho Climate Literacy Education Engagement and Research

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Idaho Climate Literacy Education Engagement and Research

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The Idaho Climate Literacy Education Engagement and Research (i-CLEER) organization is committed to building community, expanding education, and growing the future of climate awareness.

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St Luke's/ICCH Climate and Health Lecture Series on YouTube

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St Luke's/ICCH Climate and Health Lecture Series on YouTube

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Dr. Ethan Sims introduces Dr. Jen Pierce, BSU Dept of Geosciences - Presentation on A HEATING PLANET - St. Luke's Hospital System Lecture Series on Climate and Health

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Dana Gunder's slides from symposium 2024

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Dana Gunder's slides from symposium 2024

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Slides presented by Dana Gunders on October 2, 2024 to IWCF Symposium guests

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Furniture and decor made by Scott Phillips from upcycled plastics!

Remix transforms mixtures of non-recyclable and hard-to-recycle plastics into lumber and sheet goods, and then craft products that are exceptional in both appearance and performance.

He donated a bench for our dinner raffle at Symposium 2024!

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Remix Materials | sustainable furniture and decor

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Remix Materials makes exquisite, sustainable furniture and decor from non-recyclable and hard-to-recycle plastics.

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Dr. Erin Searcy, CTO of Idaho National Laboratory (INL) provides an overview on advanced nuclear technologies and how these technologies can be utilized in our nation and across the globe.

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Sophia Bliss, KTVB Meteorologist, will be the dinner keynote Q&A moderator! Learn more about Sophia on her KTVB bio page.

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Book: Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World 

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Book: Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World 

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Waste is truly our biggest problem, and solving our inherent trashiness can fix our economy, our energy costs, our traffic jams, and help slow climate change—all while making us healthier, happier and more prosperous. Total Garbage will shine a light on the absurdity of the systems that all of us use daily and take for granted--and it will help both individuals and communities make meaningful changes toward better lives and a cleaner, greener world.

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QUICK STORY: Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Edward Humes writes stories about criminal justice, social justice, and the environment. His latest book is the nonfiction thriller, THE FOREVER WITNESS: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder. His other works include the bestseller MISSISSIPPI MUD: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia, GARBOLOGY: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash, BURNED, which helped free a woman imprisoned for life because of flawed forensic science, and the PEN Award-winning NO MATTER HOW LOUD I SHOUT: A Year In the Life of Juvenile Court.

BACK STORY: When I was six I decided I wanted to be a writer, and I've been at it ever since (though I initially thought storytelling would be a fun hobby, not a living, as I was planning on supporting myself by becoming a marine biologist and the next Jacque Cousteau).

I started my writing career in newspapers while still in college, and I think I probably would have paid them, instead of the other way around, for the thrill of seeing my first byline in print. As a newspaper reporter, I gravitated toward assignments that allowed me to dig behind the scenes and beneath the surface, looking for questions others hadn't asked or imagined about stories ranging from the cause of an airline disaster to exploring why our child welfare system saves some kids while destroying others. For me, the job amounted to this: license to find out the things I had always wanted to know, about anything and everything that interested, touched or outraged me. Then, within the space and time limitations of a daily newspaper, I had the chance to mold it all into a story to pass onto others. I loved that work.

When I left newspapers to write nonfiction books, I suddenly had weeks or months, rather than hours or days, to immerse myself in the inner workings of the places, characters and events I seek to understand and write about. I had found the greatest job I can imagine.

In my books, I try to take readers inside worlds most don't get to visit or see close up on their own: the corrupt worlds of the Dixie Mafia and the dirtiest cop in L.A; the California high school that went from worst to best in the state; the harrowing but surprisingly humane world of a neonatal intensive care unit where babies the size of your palm survive and thrive; and the astonishing and vital truths we can learn from the contents of our garbage cans, landfills and waste. Most recently I've been enthralled by the remarkable world of genetic genealogy. It's the ultimate secret revealer and cold-case solution machine, powered by the tens of millions of us who have spit in a tube and taken a mail-order ancestry DNA test, and by a band of self-taught citizen-scientists who discovered the immense investigative power those tests have unintentionally unleashed.

When I'm not writing (and sometimes while I am writing) I take long walks every day. Along with the rest of my family, I'm active in the greyhound rescue community. We've got two wonderful, quirky, loving retired racing hounds, Valiant and Dottie, who've left the track behind them to become professional couch potatoes.

Other stuff:

BORN: Philadelphia.

EDUCATION: Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass.

CURRENT WHEREABOUTS: Southern California

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Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World

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Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World [Humes, Edward] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World

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PDF: National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics (US White House)

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PDF: National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics (US White House)

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On June 12, 2024 the Biden-Harris Administration released the National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics (PDF, 42 pages).

This National Strategy lays out a path for the United States to meet its national goal of reducing food loss and waste by 50% by 2030. The actions outlined in this strategy will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions (including methane), save households and businesses money, and build cleaner communities by reducing food loss and waste.

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Book: The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future 

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Book: The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future 

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In The Three Ages of Water, Peter Gleick guides us through the long, fraught history of our relationship to this precious resource. Water has shaped civilizations and empires, and driven centuries of advances in science and technology—from agriculture to aqueducts, steam power to space exploration—and progress in health and medicine.

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Dr. Peter H. Gleick is co-founder, president-emeritus, and Senior Fellow of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California. His research and writing address the critical connections between water and human health, the hydrologic impacts of climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and international conflicts over water resources.

Dr. Gleick is an internationally recognized water expert and was named a MacArthur Fellow in October 2003 for his work. In 2006 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

Gleick received a B.S. from Yale University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He serves on the boards of numerous journals and organizations, and is the author of many scientific papers and thirteen books, including the biennial water report, "The World's Water," "Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water," "A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy" (2012), and the new book "The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future" (PublicAffairs, 2023).

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The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future

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Buy The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

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Book: At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth

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Book: At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth

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From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis

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One of Kirkus Review 's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022"Marvelous." -Bill McKibben, New York Times bestselling author of , science journalist Madeline Ostrander reflects on this crisis not as an abstract scientific or political problem but as a palpable force that is now affecting all of us at home. She offers vivid accounts of people fighting to protect places they love from increasingly dangerous circumstances. A firefighter works to rebuild her town after catastrophic western wildfires. A Florida preservationist strives to protect one of North America's most historic cities from rising seas. An urban farmer struggles to transform a California city plagued by fossil fuel disasters. An Alaskan community heads for higher ground as its land erodes.
A gold Nautilus Book Award winner, Ecology & Environment The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis At Home on an Unruly Planet

How do we find a sense of home and rootedness in a time of unprecedented upheaval? What happens when the seasons and rhythms in which we have built our lives go off-kilter?

Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live. In

Ostrander pairs deeply reported stories of hard-won optimism with lyrical essays on the strengths we need in an era of crisis. The book is required reading for anyone who wants to make a home in the twenty-first century.

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At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth

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At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth [Ostrander, Madeline] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth

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Book: Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water

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Book: Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water

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In Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water, veteran journalist Peter Annin shows that wastewater has become a surprising weapon in America’s war against water scarcity.

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In 2000, a transformative climate-driven "megadrought" swept over the Colorado River watershed. By the early 2020s, levels on the river's two largest reservoirs were hitting record lows and threatening the water supply for forty million people. Outside the West, water stocks are stressed even in states with bountiful rainfall such as Florida. From coast to coast, conventional measures to sustain the most fundamental natural resource on earth-drinking water-are coming up short. Recycled water could help close that gap., veteran journalist Peter Annin shows that wastewater has become a surprising weapon in America's war against water scarcity. Annin probes deep into the water reuse movement in five water-strapped states-California, Texas, Virginia, Nevada, and Florida. He drinks beer made from purified sewage, visits communities where purified sewage came to the rescue, and examines how one of the nation's largest wastewater plants hopes to recycle one hundred percent of its wastewater by 2035. At each stop, readers come face to face with the people who are struggling for, and against, recycled water. While the current filtration technology transforms sewage into something akin to distilled water-free of chemicals and safe to drink-water recycling's challenge isn't technology. It's terminology. Concerns about communities being used as "guinea pigs," sensationalist media coverage, and taglines like "toilet to tap" have repeatedly crippled water recycling efforts. Potable water recycling has become the hottest frontier in the race for expanded water supply options. But can public opinion turn in time to avoid the worst consequences?'s fast-paced narrative cuts through the fearmongering and misinformation to make the case that recycled water is direly needed in the climate-change era. Water cannot be taken for granted anymore-and that includes sewage.

In Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water

Purified

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Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water

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Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water [Annin, Peter] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water

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Book: Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places

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Book: Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places

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Pitfall is the compelling story of the quest to exploit the metals our civilization needs—and at what cost to local people and their environments. Beginning with the first waves of big, foreign-owned mines in the 1960s, investigative journalist Christopher Pollon shows how transnational companies rose to dominate copper, precious metals, and lithium in Latin America, made inroads into war-torn countries in Africa, and exploited nickel, industrial metals, and rare earth metals across Asia and Oceania.

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A harrowing journey through the past, present, and future of mining, this expertly-researched account ends on a vision for how industry can better serve the needs of humanity. Beginning with the first waves of big, foreign-owned mines in the 1960s, investigative journalist Christopher Pollon shows how transnational companies rose to dominate copper, precious metals, and lithium in Latin America, made inroads into war-torn countries in Africa, and exploited nickel, industrial metals, and rare earth metals across Asia and Oceania.

A race is on to exploit the last bonanzas of gold, silver, and industrial metals left on Earth. These metals are not only essential for all material comfort and need, but for the transition to clean energy: in the coming decades, billions of tons of copper, nickel, silver, and other metals will be required to build electric vehicles, solar and wind installations, and green infrastructure. We need more metals than ever before, yet the qualities and quantities are diminishing, making the extraction process more polluting to land, air and water. And most of these metals will be mined from the global south, where social conflict will only grow, led by Indigenous peoples demanding a greater say in how their wealth is used.

The stakes couldn't be higher: How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past? Pitfall is the compelling story of the quest to exploit the metals our civilization needs-and at what cost to local people and their environments.

If we cannot change our course, Pollon argues, we are condemned to mine deeper and darker places, including the depths of the ocean, sacrifice zones, and near-earth asteroids. This disturbing vision of the future also includes robotic mines without workers and social license-unless we act now.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.

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Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places ("An important account"―Bill McKibben)

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Book: The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A-Z

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Book: The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A-Z

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The Everlasting Meal Cookbook offers more than 1,500 easy and creative ideas for nearly every kind of leftover. Now you can easily transform a leftover burrito into a lunch of fried rice, or stale breakfast donuts into bread pudding. These inspiring and tasty recipes don’t require any precise measurements, making this cookbook a go-to resource for when your kitchen seems full of meal endings with no clear meal beginnings.

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"This is the book I've been waiting for all my life... a rejuvenating approach to using up odd ends and making the most of your ingredients, even ones you normally wouldn't think twice about tossing.... Adler's conversational tone feels like a friend cheering you on as you rummage through your fridge for dinner." - Bon Appetit - Saveur

"Where the average home cook might see stray puzzle pieces that don't fit together, Adler sees delicious possibilities... Drawn from her restaurant experience, kitchen experimentation, and global cookbook collection, Adler's diverse recommendations range from practical to reassuring to unexpected." - The Wall Street Journal

"Steeped in culinary practicality, mixing vibrant ideas with sharp real-world strategies... her tone is generous." -Emily Weinstein, NYT Cooking - Real Simple

"I love the elegant honesty of Tamar's writing, the sureness of her direction and the range of her ideas. It's the kind of book that makes you feel more capable just by opening it." -NPR.org -Tejal Rao,

"Adler helps jump-start your creative process with easy ideas for even the most specific bits and bobs." The New York Times - Vogue

"A seemingly endless encyclopedia of recipes that rely on what's left after we finish the initial meal. Adler gives new life to the foods that many of us leave in the fridge to waste away... . The way she sees it, by making something new, you're honoring and extending the labor you put in the first time around." -

"Breathes new life into every last leftover and scrap... very persuasive... there's something about Adler's confidence as both cook and writer that is reminiscent of M.F.K. Fisher." Financial Times - Christian Science Monitor

"A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated and gracefully written resource... a no-waste ethos permeates these many pages with goodwill, humor, and hope. As with all things Adler, the writing is fantastic: expert and unfailingly elegant." -Harold McGee, author of On Food and Cooking "The Everlasting Meal Cookbook

"One of the year's best recipe books... Adler is economical. You trust her because of it." is as inspiring as it is essential. Before you even finish reading the introduction, you know you are in good hands. Tamar Adler can teach the most trepidatious person to become a more intuitive and spontaneous cook." -Andy Baraghani, author of The Cook You Want to Be

"This should join the reference shelf in your kitchen as a comprehensive guide to assembling any mismatched array of food into something artful and memorable." - Real Simple -NPR.org

"Tamar Adler's guide to redeeming leftovers is endlessly useful and great fun to browse: it deserves an everlasting place in any kitchen." - Wired , Best Books of 2023 - Associated Press -Tejal Rao, The New York Times -

"Adler helps jump-start your creative process with easy ideas for even the most specific bits and bobs." Jenny Rosenstrach, Dinner: A Love Story -Simply Recipes

"A seemingly endless encyclopedia of recipes that rely on what's left after we finish the initial meal. Adler gives new life to the foods that many of us leave in the fridge to waste away... . The way she sees it, by making something new, you're honoring and extending the labor you put in the first time around." -

"Like an artsy genius friend you wish you had in college, Alder has the palate, confidence, and descriptive ease of greats like Alice Waters and Anissa Helou... you'll keep this book within reach and use it often." Publishers Weekly * starred review* - Booklist

"Comes at a time when food prices are biting, environmentalism urges us not to throw away reusable things, and the pandemic forced us to become better cooks. Adler emphasizes saving time and boosting taste as well." - BookRiot -

"Breathes new life into every last leftover and scrap... very persuasive... there's something about Adler's confidence as both cook and writer that is reminiscent of M.F.K. Fisher." Vogue " This book is gratifying in its pragmatic approach to cooking and reviving what has already been cooked. It's an invaluable resource for home cooks looking to eat more mindfully and deliciously while throwing away less. Better still, it's a pleasurable read." -

"Adler turns her poetic sensibility towards the noble art of salvaging leftovers and addressing the food waste problem... I got an answer for what to have for dinner tonight... there's no takeout food or prepared meal that is too obscure for gold-spinning." Stephen Satterfield, Founder of Whetstone Media, Host of "High on the Hog" -Harold McGee, author of On Food and Cooking "The Everlasting Meal Cookbook is as inspiring as it is essential. Before you even finish reading the introduction, you know you are in good hands. Tamar Adler can teach the most trepidatious person to become a more intuitive and spontaneous cook."

"Delicious and doable recipes accounting for just about any leftovers you've got sitting around, this cookbook will help your kitchen become a no-waste zone." -Andy Baraghani, author of The Cook You Want to Be

"An impressive encyclopedia of recipes for elevated but frugal and environmentally friendly eating... Adler's thorough guide will inspire all levels of cooks to say goodbye to waste and embrace the ABCs of leftovers." -Elazar Sontag, restaurant editor, Bon Appetit The Everlasting Meal Cookbook shows us how to create desirable, simple meals out of what we have in our cupboards, refrigerators, and freezers. This is a useful, sustainable, and unique cookbook."

"Adler bursts with ideas for an encyclopedia's worth of leftovers. Her comprehensive approach finds uses for virtually every smidgen of food left from a meal. - Klancy Miller, author of Cooking Solo

"An A-Z compendium of recipes and tips to combat food waste by using every part of the ingredients you're cooking with."

"A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated and gracefully written resource... a no-waste ethos permeates these many pages with goodwill, humor, and hope. As with all things Adler, the writing is fantastic: expert and unfailingly elegant."

"Tamar Adler's guide to redeeming leftovers is endlessly useful and great fun to browse: it deserves an everlasting place in any kitchen."

"Tamar Adler's new book is as much about finding excitement in the mundane as it is about giving new life to old ingredients. Instead of feeling intimidating or boring or terribly utilitarian, Adler's recipes and guiding principles for reinvigorating leftovers are warm and enticing. Flipping through the wisdom within, I found myself wishing I had more almost-forgotten dinners to reimagine."

"If cooking is a basic adult skill, knowing how to make something imaginative out of leftovers is advanced level adulting.

Tamar Adler is the James Beard and IACP Award-winning author of An Everlasting Meal ; Something Old, Something New ; and An Everlasting Meal Cookbook . She is a contributing editor at Vogue , has been a New York Times Magazine columnist, and the host of the Luminary podcast, Food Actually . She has cooked at Chez Panisse, and lives in Hudson, New York.

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The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A-Z [Adler, Tamar, Winner, Caitlin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A-Z

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Book: Cooking Scrappy: 100 Recipes to Help You Stop Wasting Food, Save Money, and Love What You Eat

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Book: Cooking Scrappy: 100 Recipes to Help You Stop Wasting Food, Save Money, and Love What You Eat

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Joel Gamoran dives into the kitchen, changing expectations, not just about how to use all ingredients to their max, but how to make the most of every resource in your kitchen. Flip over that cast-iron skillet for a stellar pizza stone. Think outside of the recipe box—learn to be creative when it comes to making food. Resourcefulness is an essential part of cooking; Gamoran’s experiences in culinary schools and as a professional chef have taught him that everything in the kitchen can, and should, be used.

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From the food-stoked star of the A&E series Scraps and the National Chef of Sur La Table, a ground-breaking cookbook that reshapes the way you look at ingredients and makes the most out of every resource in the kitchen, featuring 150 color photographs and 100 ingenious recipes that expand your mind, the way you cook, and how you live.

Have you ever felt guilty throwing out food? Of course, you have, but that's all about to change. The stuff you always thought of as trash just became the main course. Look into the fridge. At first glance it might not look like there's much to eat, just a mishmash of ingredients that don't go together. But carrot tops can be pesto and brown bananas are the start of an incredible cake. Suddenly you have uncovered an undiscovered treasure chest for making the most out of "nothing."

Joel Gamoran dives into the kitchen, changing expectations, not just about how to use all ingredients to their max, but how to make the most of every resource in your kitchen. Flip over that cast-iron skillet for a stellar pizza stone. Don't throw away those apple cores, shrimp shells, or leftover pickle juice. Transform them into gorgeous meals, such as Apple Core Butter Roasted Duck, Shrimp Shell Chowder, or Pickle Juice Brined Pork Chops.

Think outside of the recipe box-learn to be creative when it comes to making food. Resourcefulness is an essential part of cooking; Gamoran's experiences in culinary schools and as a professional chef have taught him that everything in the kitchen can, and should, be used. His relaxed laid-back tone tackles a serious subject. It embraces a lifestyle that eliminates waste, helps the environment, and enables home cooks to stretch their food budgets.

Cooking Scrappy saves you money, helps to save the planet, and ups your cooking game. Joel stands for the bruised, the forgotten, and the back of the fridge. Will you stand with him?!

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Cooking Scrappy: 100 Recipes to Help You Stop Wasting Food, Save Money, and Love What You Eat

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Book: Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal

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Combining front-line investigation with startling new data, Waste shows how the way we live now has created a global food crisis Â– and what we can do to fix it.

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With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem Â- or thinks it does. Farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up to half of their food Â- enough to feed all the worldÂ's hungry at least three times over. Forests are destroyed and nearly one tenth of the WestÂ's greenhouse gas emissions are released growing food that will never be eaten. While affluent nations throw away food through neglect, in the developing world crops rot because farmers lack the means to process, store and transport them to market. But there could be surprisingly painless remedies for what has become one of the worldÂ's most pressing environmental and social problems. Travelling from Yorkshire to China, from Pakistan to Japan, and introducing us to foraging pigs, potato farmers, freegans and food industry directors, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy, but also inspiring innovations and ways of making the most of what we have. Combining front-line investigation with startling new data, Waste shows how the way we live now has created a global food crisis Â- and what we can do to fix it.

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Waste: Uncovering the Global Waste Scandal

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With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem Â- or thinks it does. Farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up to half of their food Â- enough to feed all the worldÂ's hungry at least three times o...

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Book: American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It) 

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Grocery prices and the forsaken foods at the back of your fridge seem to increase weekly. After reading American Wasteland, you will never look at your shopping list, refrigerator, plate, or wallet the same way again. Jonathan Bloom wades into the garbage heap to unearth what our squandered food says about us, why it matters, and how you can make a difference starting in your own kitchen—reducing waste and saving money.

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This is a review for the Weavers Way Coops Newsletter, so it is a bit local.
It is the first of a 3-part review, which does tell you how immensely informative the book is.

The Simplicity Dividend The Shuttle May 2011 Betsy Teutsch

American Wasteland - How America Wastes Nearly Half of Its Food - Part I
Jonathan Bloom's American Wasteland is an engaging book on a topic which is finally garnering some much-deserved attention: food waste. I've wanted to learn more about the back-story from field to my refrigerator, at which point waste is my personal responsibility, and Bloom is the perfect tour guide. Because of the declining cost of food relative to American incomes, food has become devalued. Hence food waste is no longer considered sinful or just plain stupid, but rather a problem solver of what to do with our excess.
Be warned, despite Bloom's droll wit, amusing anecdotes, and endearing asides, his story is not pretty. From production to plate, Americans waste almost half of our food supply. He takes us through our country's food system, from farm to restaurant or supermarket, and ultimately into the home of the consumer. Us. Much is wasted at each juncture, until in the end, we toss perfectly good food for reasons that might make sense at the time, but when analyzed, seem entirely avoidable.
Industrial farming is a high risk, low profit margin business. Imperfect produce is increasingly rejected by marketers in an attempt to match the elegant abundance of Whole Foods. The upscaling of expectation results in vast quantities of perfectly edible harvested food going straight to dumpsters. Some farms plow crops under rather than investing in harvesting them if they are subpar. Or sometimes, the migrant labor we depend on for harvesting is simply not available, and the crops rot.
Because such a large volume of our produce is grown in ginormous farms in Watsonville, California, it is hard to find enough local demand for so much food. Factory rejects overwhelm the local food recovery non-profits. While a small percentage is composted, most processing mistakes are junked. Produce is too perishable to be sold as factory seconds, and brand-consciousness would preclude companies from allowing "flawed" merchandise to be marketed, anyway. Bloom emphasizes that these flaws have nothing to do with food quality, just with appearance. Sad indeed.
Bloom is a storyteller at heart, and working undercover in a supermarket produce section provided him with vivid insider observations. I cheered for the subversive produce pro who, offended by instructions to toss perfectly good tomatoes, sorted the perfect from the imperfect, combining two dumpster-destined clamshell boxfuls into one attractive batch. Thus he only threw out bruised vegetables. If a supervisor knew, that employee could have been in big trouble, even though common sense would suggest that it's good for the grocery store to sell more, right? The saddest of Bloom's observations is how even he, a crusader against wanton food waste, eventually stopped perceiving the imperfect produce they threw out as food. Throwing it away became normal.
Supermarket food is marked with dates. If the Sell By date is approaching, some stores toss is before. These dates might also say "Best By" or "Eat By", thoroughly confusing. No one knows what the hell these mean. Most consumers imagine something dangerous will happen if they don't abide by these somewhat arbitrary dates. Hence food is discarded rather than upsetting the customers, even though its quality is still fine. No discounting of such product at chain groceries - same concern with degrading brand quality. And no letting employees take it. Nope, to the dumpster it goes.
Next time you eat in a chain restaurant you might want to repress Bloom's reporting, since it's mighty depressing. Eating establishments throw out immense amounts of prepared foods each night. Some restaurants discard them out more frequently than that. The worst wasters are buffet spreads, because their business model is based on extensive choice available the entire time the restaurant is open for business. Employees are not allowed to eat the leftovers, nor are customers allowed to take theirs home. Smaller locally-owned restaurants are more food frugal, often using leftover prepared foods in new, creative ways, just like home cooks. Waste, after all, represents the bottom line, and well-run restaurants attempt to minimize the amount of money they throw away.
Weavers Way, happily, gets exemplary marks for minimizing food waste. We sell or give away food with expiration dates close at hand. We have a discount produce bin which shoppers check out, inspiration for many a soup or banana bread, I'm sure. Kim Spellman-Hall, our Chestnut Hill manager, outlines our protocols:
* Items are marked down as they get close to the expiration date - bakery, dairy, meat, seafood, and prepared foods.
* Produce items are used in our prepared soups and salads.
* If the kitchen can't use some of the produce items we donate to several food banks which pick up seven days a week.
* Damaged items and unsold marked-down expired items also go to food banks.
* We compost all produce trimmings and rotten items and have a service that picks up animal fat from our meat department.
* The only items that get pitched are moldy things that can't be composted. We even have someone who will pick these up for their pig.
* The food banks are so appreciative so it's a win-win for everyone!

This nearly zero-waste policy is something for Weavers Way shoppers take great pride and comfort in, knowing that our coop values food and makes every possible effort to avoid destroying it. I am thrilled to learn of this virtue-added benefit of membership.
One of the chief take-aways from Annie Leonard's The Story of Stuff is how much waste occurs in the supply chain, something about which the end consumer is entirely (and happily) oblivious. Jonathan Bloom does a great job of spotlighting the food chain. He includes a lot of data, but it's his stories which will stick with you.
This is one of a three-part review. Bloom also lays out encouraging examples of waste reduction and food recovery, which I will feature in Part II. The third installment will focus on our home-based waste along with strategies for avoiding all the accumulation with which we are all intimately familiar. Send me your stories!
Betsy blogs at [...] . She can be reached at betsy@betsyteutsch.com

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American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It)

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Book: The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis 

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Book: The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis 

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Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac outline two possible scenarios for our planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris Agreement’s climate targets. In the other, they lay out what it will be like to live in a regenerative world that has net-zero emissions. They argue for confronting the climate crisis head-on, with determination and optimism. The Future We Choose presents our options and tells us what governments, corporations, and each of us can, and must, do to fend off disaster.

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A cautionary but optimistic book about the world's changing climate and the fate of humanity, from two of the architects of the 2015 Paris Agreement. * "One of the most inspiring books I've ever read." -Yuval Harari The Future We Choose presents our options and tells us what governments, corporations, and each of us can, and must, do to fend off disaster.
Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac outline two possible scenarios for our planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris Agreement's climate targets. In the other, they lay out what it will be like to live in a regenerative world that has net-zero emissions. They argue for confronting the climate crisis head-on, with determination and optimism.

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The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis

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Book: The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming 

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Book: The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming 

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In The Future Earth, leading climate change advocate and weather-related journalist Eric Holthaus (“the Rebel Nerd of Meteorology”—Rolling Stone) offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades.

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The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades.

The basics of climate science are easy. We know it is entirely human-caused. Which means its solutions will be similarly human-led. In The Future Earth , leading climate change advocate and weather-related journalist Eric Holthaus ("the Rebel Nerd of Meteorology"- Rolling Stone ) offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades. Anchored by world-class reporting, interviews with futurists, climatologists, biologists, economists, and climate change activists, it shows what the world could look like if we implemented radical solutions on the scale of the crises we face.

What could happen if we reduced carbon emissions by 50 percent in the next decade?

What could living in a city look like in 2030?

How could the world operate in 2040, if the proposed Green New Deal created a 100 percent net carbon-free economy in the United States?

This is the book for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the current state of our environment. Hopeful and prophetic, The Future Earth invites us to imagine how we can reverse the effects of climate change in our own lifetime and encourages us to enter a deeper relationship with the earth as conscientious stewards and to re-affirm our commitment to one another in our shared humanity.

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The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming

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All We Can Save illuminates the expertise and insights of dozens of diverse women leading on climate in the United States—scientists, journalists, farmers, lawyers, teachers, activists, innovators, wonks, and designers, across generations, geographies, and race—and aims to advance a more representative, nuanced, and solution-oriented public conversation on the climate crisis. These women offer a spectrum of ideas and insights for how we can rapidly, radically reshape society.

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. illuminates the expertise and insights of dozens of diverse women leading on climate in the United States-scientists, journalists, farmers, lawyers, teachers, activists, innovators, wonks, and designers, across generations, geographies, and race-and aims to advance a more representative, nuanced, and solution-oriented public conversation on the climate crisis. These women offer a spectrum of ideas and insights for how we can rapidly, radically reshape society.

"A powerful read that fills one with, dare I say . . . hope?"- The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE All We Can Save

There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration. While it's clear that women and girls are vital voices and agents of change for this planet, they are too often missing from the proverbial table. More than a problem of bias, it's a dynamic that sets us up for failure. To change everything, we need everyone.

Intermixing essays with poetry and art, this book is both a balm and a guide for knowing and holding what has been done to the world, while bolstering our resolve never to give up on one another or our collective future. We must summon truth, courage, and solutions to turn away from the brink and toward life-giving possibility. Curated by two climate leaders, the book is a collection and celebration of visionaries who are leading us on a path toward all we can save.
With essays and poems by:

Emily Atkin * Xiye Bastida * Ellen Bass * Colette Pichon Battle * Jainey K. Bavishi * Janine Benyus * adrienne maree brown * Régine Clément * Abigail Dillen * Camille T. Dungy * Rhiana Gunn-Wright * Joy Harjo * Katharine Hayhoe * Mary Annaïse Heglar * Jane Hirshfield * Mary Anne Hitt * Ailish Hopper * Tara Houska, Zhaabowekwe * Emily N. Johnston * Joan Naviyuk Kane * Naomi Klein * Kate Knuth * Ada Limón * Louise Maher-Johnson * Kate Marvel * Gina McCarthy * Anne Haven McDonnell * Sarah Miller * Sherri Mitchell, Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset * Susanne C. Moser * Lynna Odel * Sharon Olds * Mary Oliver * Kate Orff * Jacqui Patterson * Leah Penniman * Catherine Pierce * Marge Piercy * Kendra Pierre-Louis * Varshini * Prakash * Janisse Ray * Christine E. Nieves Rodriguez * Favianna Rodriguez * Cameron Russell * Ash Sanders * Judith D. Schwartz * Patricia Smith * Emily Stengel * Sarah Stillman * Leah Cardamore Stokes * Amanda Sturgeon * Maggie Thomas * Heather McTeer Toney * Alexandria Villaseñor * Alice Walker * Amy Westervelt * Jane Zelikova

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All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

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Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.

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Publishers Weekly , Starred Review- Limits to Growth
Just before her death, scientist, farmer and leading environmentalist Meadows (1941-2001) completed an updated, 30th anniversary edition of her influential 1972 environmental call to action, , as well as a draft of this book, in which she explains the methodology-systems analysis-she used in her ground-breaking work, and how it can be implemented for large-scale and individual problem solving. With humorous and commonplace examples for difficult concepts such as a "reinforcing feedback loop," (the more one brother pushes, the more the other brother pushes back), negative feedback (as in thermostats), accounting for delayed response (like in maintaining store inventory), Meadows leads readers through the increasingly complex ways that feedback loops operate to create self-organizing systems, in nature ("from viruses to redwood trees") and human endeavor. Further, Meadows explicates methods for fixing systems that have gone haywire ("The world's leaders are correctly fixated on economic growth ...but they're pushing with all their might in the wrong direction"). An invaluable companion piece to Limits to Growth , this is also a useful standalone overview of systems-based problem solving, "a simple book about a complex world" graced by the wisdom of a profound thinker committed to "shaping a better future.

"When I read Thinking in Systems I am reminded of the enormity of the gap between systemic thinkers and policy makers. If this book helps narrow the gap, it will be Dana's greatest contribution." --Lester Brown, founder and President, Earth Policy Institute

"Dana Meadows' exposition in this book exhibits a degree of clarity and simplicity that can only be attained by one who profoundly and honestly understands the subject at hand--in this case systems modeling. Many thanks to Diana Wright for bringing this extra legacy from Dana to us." --Herman Daly, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland at College Park

"Reading Thinking in Systems evokes the wisdom and even the voice of Dana Meadows. We are reminded of how she was not only one of the great systems thinkers, but also one of our greatest teachers. This is modestly called a primer, and indeed it is, but unlike most books with that title, this one quickly takes one from the elementary into deep systems thinking about issues as critical today as they were when Dana wrote these words. The discussion of oil use and the interaction of its extraction pattern with economic decision making should be required reading for all energy policy makers and energy company executives (as well as all informed citizens in a democracy). The fisheries case reminds us of how little any government or private actor has done to grasp the importance of takeout flows in determining stocks when the input flows are not within our control. The commentary on economics and, yes the need to consider limits, is a clear systems statement that clarifies a great deal of discussion that goes back to The Limits to Growth .

It is remarkable that Dana is able to explain with such clarity such systems concepts of stocks, flows, feedback, time delays, resilience, bounded rationality, and system boundaries and to illustrate each one with multiple informative examples. Her statement that goals that optimize subsystems will sub optimize the functioning of the total system, is truly profound. As the book moves from the 'mechanics' of systems dynamics to Dana's more philosophical perspective, we are treated to her inherent belief in human values that consider the good of all, and how much more effective considering the needs of others is likely to be in solving larger, complex problems. The universe and our society may be very complex and operate in counterintuitive, non-liner fashion, but following the insights of this book and applying them will provide for far more effective solutions to the challenges of a 7 billion person planet than current incremental, linear responses by governments, corporations and individuals." --Bill Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy at the Fletcher School, Tufts University

"In Dana Meadows's brilliantly integrative worldview, everything causes everything else; cause and effect loop back on themselves. She was the clearest thinker and writer co-creating the art and science of systems dynamics, and Thinking in Systems distills her lifetime of wisdom. This clear, fun-to-read synthesis will help diverse readers everywhere to grasp and harness how our complex world really works." --Amory B. Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute

"Dana Meadows taught a generation of students, friends, and colleagues the art and science of thinking beyond conventional boundaries. For her systems thinking included the expected things like recognizing patterns, connections, leverage points, feedback loops and also the human qualities of judgment, foresight, and kindness. She was a teacher with insight and heart. This long anticipated book, the distillation of her life's work, is a gem." --David Orr, Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College

"The publication of Thinking in Systems is a landmark. To live sustainably on our planet, we must learn to understand human-environment interactions as complex systems marked by the impact of human actions, the prominence of nonlinear change, the importance of initial conditions, and the significance of emergent properties. Dana Meadows' final contribution is the best and most accessible introduction to this way of thinking we have. This book is destined to shape our understanding of socio-ecological systems in the years to come in much the same way that Silent Spring taught us to understand the nature of ecosystems in the 1960s and 1970s." --Oran R. Young, Professor, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at University of California, Santa Barbara

" Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind." --Hunter Lovins, founder and President of Natural Capital Solutions and coauthor of Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

"Dana Meadows was one of the smartest people I ever knew, able to figure out the sensible answer to almost any problem. This book explains how she thought, and hence is of immense value to those of us who often wonder what she'd make of some new problem. A classic." --Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy

"An inspiring sequel to Dana Meadows' lifetime of seminal contributions to systems thinking, this highly accessible book should be read by everyone concerned with the world's future and how we can make it as good as it possibly can be." --Peter H. Raven, President, Missouri Botanical Garden

"Few matched Dana Meadows remarkable blend of eloquence and clarity in making systems thinking understandable. When Dana began her career, the field was esoteric and academic. Today it is the sine quo non for intelligent action in business and society. The publication of Meadows' previously unfinished manuscript is a gift for leaders of all sorts and at all levels." --Peter M. Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline and The Necessary Revolution

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Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller

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Nicholas explores finding purpose in a warming world, combining her scientific expertise and her lived, personal experience in a way that seems fresh and deeply urgent: Agonizing over the climate costs of visiting loved ones overseas, how to find low-carbon love on Tinder, and even exploring her complicated family legacy involving supermarket turkeys.

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** Los Angeles Times bestseller ** Under the Sky We Make , Nicholas does for climate science what Michael Pollan did more than a decade ago for the food on our plate: offering a hopeful, clear-eyed, and somehow also hilarious guide to effecting real change, starting in our own lives. Saving ourselves from climate apocalypse will require radical shifts within each of us, to effect real change in our society and culture. But it can be done. It requires, Dr. Nicholas argues, belief in our own agency and value, alongside a deep understanding that no one will ever hand us power--we're going to have to seize it for ourselves.

It's warming. It's us. We're sure. It's bad. But we can fix it.

After speaking to the international public for close to fifteen years about sustainability, climate scientist Dr. Nicholas realized that concerned people were getting the wrong message about the climate crisis. Yes, companies and governments are hugely responsible for the mess we're in. But individuals CAN effect real, significant, and lasting change to solve this problem. Nicholas explores finding purpose in a warming world, combining her scientific expertise and her lived, personal experience in a way that seems fresh and deeply urgent: Agonizing over the climate costs of visiting loved ones overseas, how to find low-carbon love on Tinder, and even exploring her complicated family legacy involving supermarket turkeys.

In her astonishing, bestselling book

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Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World

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A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next.

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"One of the Best Books of the 21st Century."
- The Guardian -Bill McKibben

"No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium."

"An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways."
- The New Yorker

A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me , her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them-and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of 2016 in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book.

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of eighteen or so books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including the books Men Explain Things to Me and Hope in the Dark , both also with Haymarket; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; The Faraway Nearby ; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster ; A Field Guide to Getting Lost ; Wanderlust: A History of Walking ; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's and a regular contributor to the Guardian.

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Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

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Book:  Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert

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Book:  Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert

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Published in 2021 and a National Bestseller • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BILL GATES * Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a "super coral" that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING * ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, Esquire, Smithsonian Magazine, Vulture, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal * "Beautifully and insistently, Kolbert shows us that it is time to think radically about the ways we manage the environment."-Helen Macdonald, The New York Times Under a White Sky, The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.

That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.

In

One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In

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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future - Kindle edition by Kolbert, Elizabeth. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future.

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Book:  The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

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Book:  The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

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Read more about Elizabeth Kolbert's 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winning book. The writing blends explanations of her treks to remote areas with interviews of scientists, researchers, and guides, without advocating a position, in pursuit of objectivity.

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Book:  Braiding  Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Book:  Braiding  Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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Amazon.com: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Audible Audio Edition): Robin Wall Kimmerer, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Tantor Audio: Books

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Website: WasteLess - Recycle your garbage using this subscription service.

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Website: WasteLess - Recycle your garbage using this subscription service.

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Elevate your eco-friendly lifestyle with the WasteLess monthly recycling subscription service. We pick up and recycle what those other guys want! Click on the picture above or go to the website to subscribe today!

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WasteLess Recycle | recycle | Idaho, USA

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When it comes to an all-in-one recycling and reuse service for your hard-to-recycle items, WasteLess is the best choice for both your home and the environment. Serving Boise and other surrounding community areas.

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Book:  Total Garbage How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World

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Book:  Total Garbage How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Edward Humes, investigates how waste is embedded in our daily lives and reveals how it drives major environmental, health and economic crises. Humes also offers solutions solutions by showing us how waste is not inevitable, and the roles we can play in creating a cleaners, greener future.

Submitted by Kim Liebich.

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QUICK STORY: Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Edward Humes writes stories about criminal justice, social justice, and the environment. His latest book is the nonfiction thriller, THE FOREVER WITNESS: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder. His other works include the bestseller MISSISSIPPI MUD: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia, GARBOLOGY: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash, BURNED, which helped free a woman imprisoned for life because of flawed forensic science, and the PEN Award-winning NO MATTER HOW LOUD I SHOUT: A Year In the Life of Juvenile Court.

BACK STORY: When I was six I decided I wanted to be a writer, and I've been at it ever since (though I initially thought storytelling would be a fun hobby, not a living, as I was planning on supporting myself by becoming a marine biologist and the next Jacque Cousteau).

I started my writing career in newspapers while still in college, and I think I probably would have paid them, instead of the other way around, for the thrill of seeing my first byline in print. As a newspaper reporter, I gravitated toward assignments that allowed me to dig behind the scenes and beneath the surface, looking for questions others hadn't asked or imagined about stories ranging from the cause of an airline disaster to exploring why our child welfare system saves some kids while destroying others. For me, the job amounted to this: license to find out the things I had always wanted to know, about anything and everything that interested, touched or outraged me. Then, within the space and time limitations of a daily newspaper, I had the chance to mold it all into a story to pass onto others. I loved that work.

When I left newspapers to write nonfiction books, I suddenly had weeks or months, rather than hours or days, to immerse myself in the inner workings of the places, characters and events I seek to understand and write about. I had found the greatest job I can imagine.

In my books, I try to take readers inside worlds most don't get to visit or see close up on their own: the corrupt worlds of the Dixie Mafia and the dirtiest cop in L.A; the California high school that went from worst to best in the state; the harrowing but surprisingly humane world of a neonatal intensive care unit where babies the size of your palm survive and thrive; and the astonishing and vital truths we can learn from the contents of our garbage cans, landfills and waste. Most recently I've been enthralled by the remarkable world of genetic genealogy. It's the ultimate secret revealer and cold-case solution machine, powered by the tens of millions of us who have spit in a tube and taken a mail-order ancestry DNA test, and by a band of self-taught citizen-scientists who discovered the immense investigative power those tests have unintentionally unleashed.

When I'm not writing (and sometimes while I am writing) I take long walks every day. Along with the rest of my family, I'm active in the greyhound rescue community. We've got two wonderful, quirky, loving retired racing hounds, Valiant and Dottie, who've left the track behind them to become professional couch potatoes.

Other stuff:

BORN: Philadelphia.

EDUCATION: Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass.

CURRENT WHEREABOUTS: Southern California

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Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World

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Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World [Humes, Edward] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World

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PDF:  How to Build an Edible Garden in 7 Steps.

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PDF:  How to Build an Edible Garden in 7 Steps.

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A downloadable resource (from Common Ground) to build an edible garden.

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From KISU radio, check out the latest "listens" on Idaho's sustainability topics!

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Tuesday Mornings at 7:35am and Thursdays Afternoons at 4:20 PM

Sustainable Idaho explores Idaho's sustainability topics by considering three key pillars of sustainability: economic, societal, and environmental aspects. Sustainable Idaho explores topics that matter to Idahoans.

Sustainable Idaho is a partnership between ISU's Sustainability Club and the Portneuf Resource Council. New student hosts are hired for Sustainable Idaho at the beginning of each new school year. Organization, planning, and technical assistance for the program is by a steering committee consisting of scientists, experts in their field and ISU faculty.

You can find out more about the Portneuf Resource Council at www.PortneufResourceCouncil.org. Contact us with your comments and ideas, or for hosting opportunities at PortneufResource@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you.

For archived episodes: https://www.kisu.org/show/sustainable-idaho

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Sustainable Idaho explores Idaho's sustainability topics by considering three key pillars of sustainability: economic, societal, and environmental aspects. Sustainable Idaho explores topics that matter to Idahoans. Sustainable Idaho is a partnership between ISU's Sustainability Club and the Portneuf Resource Council. New student hosts are hired for Sustainable Idaho at the beginning of each new school year.

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In 2017 Joshua Tickell wrote Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body and Ultimately Save Our World. This audio book is just under 12 hours long and was behind the documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson. Digital, hardcover and paperback formats also available.

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Discover the hidden power soil has to reverse climate change and how a regenerative farming diet not only delivers us better health and wellness but also rebuilds our most precious resource - the very ground that feeds us.

Josh Tickell, one of America's most celebrated documentary filmmakers and director of Fuel , has dedicated most of his life to saving the environment. Now, in Kiss the Ground , he explains an incredible truth: By changing our diets to a soil-nourishing, regenerative agriculture diet, we can reverse global warming, harvest healthy, abundant food, and eliminate the poisonous substances that are harming our children, our pets, our bodies, and ultimately our planet.

Through fascinating and accessible interviews with celebrity chefs, ranchers, farmers, and top scientists, this remarkable book, soon to be a full-length documentary film narrated by Woody Harrelson, will teach you how to become an agent in humanity's single most important and time sensitive mission. Reverse climate change and effectively save the world - all through the choices you make in how and what to eat.

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Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World

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Amazon.com: Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World (Audible Audio Edition): Josh Tickell, John Mackey - foreword, Josh Tickell, Simon & Schuster Audio: Audible Books & Originals

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Video Series Trailer:  An Optimist's Guide to the Planet

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Video Series Trailer:  An Optimist's Guide to the Planet

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“An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet” with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister, Game of Thrones) hosts a six-episode series (about 50 min. each) that focuses on solutions to some of the biggest environmental challenges of our time. Coster-Waldau and his team travel the globe in search of ideas that inspire optimism for the future. Stories focus on sustainable food growth, carbon neutral jet fuel, and tiny worms that can break down plastics to name a few. Premiered Feb 8, 2024 on Bloomberg Originals, Crave Canada, and Prime Video.

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Transform: Changing How We Live Before It’s Too Late | An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet

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Book:  Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie

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Book:  Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie

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This book, released in January 2024, explains how we can solve our biggest environmental problems.

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" Not the End of the World is eye-opening and essential. With comprehensive data and sometimes counterintuitive conclusions, Hannah Ritchie does for the environment what Hans Rosling did for health. She argues that we shouldn't be nostalgic for a time when half the global population died before adulthood, and she makes a convincing case that things are getting better-even though there's so much more to do. I hope people around the world read this book, understand our planet isn't a lost cause, and get inspired to help fix it."― Bill Gates, author of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind

"The climate and environmental crisis now has its Hans Rosling. Hannah Ritchie has charted an invigorating, inspiring, often surprising tour of recent human history and the many marks of progress it contains. Will the world make good on that optimism in the future? That is up to the rest of us."― Tim Spector, author of Food For Life

"I find it hard to express how much I love this book. Hannah Ritchie brilliantly picks up where Hans Rosling left off. Her book shines with practicality and positivity. It will banish your feelings of doom, help you focus on what's really important, and make you want to be a part of the most effective solutions to our greatest challenges. Let's get this book into the hands of as many policy makers, politicians and fellow citizens as possible."― Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees

"An unmissable myth-busting book to save our planet- read it."―

"Data is a superpower. Let Hannah Ritchie show you the world as it really is. Then go out and change it for the better."―

"An inspiring data-mine which gives us not only real guidance, but the most necessary ingredient of all: hope . . . truly essential"

― Margaret Atwood, TED2023 Stewart Brand, founder of Whole Earth Catalog and author of Whole Earth Discipline

"Ecopragmatism at its best shines throughout this book... The surprising message in the data is that human civilization is far along toward solving planetary problems. Hannah Ritchie shows how building on the successful trends can finish the job."― Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up

"Such a clear-eyed view of the state we're in, giving a sharp picture of the challenges ahead, and an inspiring vision of the problems we've already solved. Everyone who reads it will learn a lot - I did."― Gaia Vince, author of Nomad Century

"A refreshingly upbeat guide to achieving sustainability. Ritchie attacks cynicism, doomerism and apathy with a barrage of data revealing the extent of our progress and illuminating the best paths ahead."― Helen Czerski, author of Blue Machine

"A refreshing perspective on the problems that the world faces, providing plenty of optimism while not sugar-coating the deep structural challenges at the root of it all."― Johan Norberg, author of In Defense of Global Capitalism and Progress

"Some deny there are environmental problems, others deny that we can solve them. Hannah Ritchie reveals that they are both wrong."― Kirkus Reviews

"Combining scientific expertise with convincing statistics, an Oxford researcher offers an antidote to do-nothing doomsayers...This book is a refreshing change and, as a call to further action, puts forward a sensible, equitable agenda."― Fragile Neighborhoods

"Every policymaker on the Left and the Right should read the new book by Seth Kaplan."― Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner

Dr. Hannah Ritchie is Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global Development at the University of Oxford. She is also Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher at the highly influential online publication Our World in Data. In 2022, Ritchie was named Scotland's Youth Climate Champion and New Scientist called her "The woman who gave COVID-19 data to the world."

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Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

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Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet [Ritchie, Hannah] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

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VIDEO:  Regenerative Farming webinar from Gabe Brown

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VIDEO:  Regenerative Farming webinar from Gabe Brown

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Start at timestamp 2:30 - to listen to Gabe Brown (author of Dirt to Soil) talk about regenerative learning in this 45 min webinar.

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Axe & Root Homestead®️, Permaculture Made Simple

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Build + Regenerate Soil w/ Gabe Brown, author of Dirt to Soil // Axe & Root Homestead Expert Series

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Gabe Brown is the farmer featured in Kiss the Ground and Common Ground (and, maybe, the soon-to-release Ground Swell?) Check out his new book!

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Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started making bold changes to their farm.

Brown - in an effort to simply survive - began experimenting with new practices he'd learned about from reading and talking with innovative researchers and ranchers. As he and his family struggled to keep the farm viable, they found themselves on an amazing journey into a new type of farming: regenerative agriculture. Brown dropped the use of most of the herbicides, insecticides, and synthetic fertilizers that are a standard part of conventional agriculture. He switched to no-till planting, started planting diverse cover crops mixes, and changed his grazing practices. In doing so, Brown transformed a degraded farm ecosystem into one full of life - starting with the soil and working his way up, one plant and one animal at a time.

In Dirt to Soil , Gabe Brown tells the story of that amazing journey and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to our most pressing and complex contemporary agricultural challenge - restoring the soil. The Brown's Ranch model, developed over 20 years of experimentation and refinement, focuses on regenerating resources by continuously enhancing the living biology in the soil.

Using regenerative agricultural principles, Brown's 5,000-acre ranch has grown several inches of new topsoil in only 20 years! The key is how we think, Brown says. In the industrial agricultural model, all thoughts are focused on killing things. But that mind-set was also killing diversity, soil, and profit, Brown realized. Now, he channels his creative thinking toward how he can get more life on the land - more plants, animals, and beneficial insects.

"The greatest roadblock to solving a problem," Brown says, "is the human mind."

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Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture

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Amazon.com: Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture (Audible Audio Edition): Gabe Brown, Gabe Brown, Chelsea Green Publishing: Audible Books & Originals

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Climate Topic Books Recommended by Jonathan Foley

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Climate Topic Books Recommended by Jonathan Foley

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Looking for an interesting read about our environment and the climate crisis? Click on the picture for a list of recommended books from IWCF's 2024 Symposium keynote speaker.

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A diverse and powerful collection of essays, poems, and art from women leading the climate movement in the United States. From scientists to activists to designers, these women offer a more representative and nuanced conversation on the climate crisis, rooted in compassion, connection, and collaboration. With contributions from over 60 visionaries, this book is a celebration of leadership and a guide for reshaping society towards a life-giving future.

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(Updated 2024) The most up to date and comprehensive list of verified book recommendations from Jonathan Foley. Includes quotes and sources.

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VIDEO:  Netflix limited series:  You Are What You Eat!

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VIDEO:  Netflix limited series:  You Are What You Eat!

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Watch the trailer of this fascinating experiment done with twins. Currently, there are 4 episodes showing on Netflix (click for direct link).

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You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment | Official Trailer | Netflix

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VIDEO:  Common Ground - 2 of 3 in "trilogy docuseries"

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VIDEO:  Common Ground - 2 of 3 in "trilogy docuseries"

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This documentary is the second in a trilogy (premiered 9/27/2023) and is now being shown at select theaters. IWCF is working to set up a special screening in Boise. In the meantime, watch the first of the series, Kiss the Ground, currently available on Netflix (the executive producer, Ian Somerhalder, shared there will be a third in the series coming out internationally in the next couple of years, titled Ground Swell).

Follow on Instagram @CommonGroundFilm or learn more at www.commongroundfilm.org.

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Common Ground Film - The movement to heal our soil, our health and the planet

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From the filmmakers of 'Kiss the Ground' (Netflix) comes the follow-up documentary 'Common Ground', winner of the Tribeca Film Festival.

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St Luke's Lecture Series on Climate and Health

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St Luke's Lecture Series on Climate and Health

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Online lectures from St Luke's are recorded and archived here: https://www.stlukesonline.org/communities-and-locations/classes-and-events/lecture-series-on-climate-and-health

Submitted by Ingrid Brudenell.

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St. Luke's and Idaho Clinicians for Climate Health continue their lecture series addressing health and climate change.

All sessions are free and open to the public both virtually and through in-person attendance. Session recordings will be available to any registrants and can also be viewed on the St. Luke's YouTube page upon conclusion.

Winter/Spring 2024 Series

The Joint Commission's Sustainable Healthcare Certification Program
Feb. 7: 12-1 p.m. MST
Hear directly from Dr. Jonathan Perlin, President and CEO of the Joint Commission, on the importance of engagement in the U.S. health sector's efforts to reduce its carbon footprint and the HHS Pledge. Learn how The Joint Commission is launching the Sustainable Healthcare Certification program for U.S. hospitals and critical access hospitals. As a steering committee member for the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) "Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing the US Health Sector," Dr. Perlin will also offer an update on the exciting work being done at NAM.

Presented by: Dr. Jonathan Perlin, President and CEO of the Joint Commission

Mental Health and Climate Change
Mar. 6: 12-1 p.m. MST
Hear from Dr. Elizabeth Pinsky, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Associate Director for Advocacy at MGH Center for Environment and Health. Dr. Pinsky is a renowned speaker on the topic of climate change and its impacts on our mental health. She will share her insights about the impacts of extreme heat, wildfire smoke, floods, droughts and other climate-fueled natural disasters on levels of stress, anxiety and depression, and how this is particularly impacting children, teens and young adults.

Presented by: Dr. Elizabeth Pinsky, child and adolescent psychiatrist and associate director for advocacy, Massachusetts General Hospital

Health Benefits of Trees
Apr. 10, 12-1 p.m. MDT
The Arbor Day Foundation will talk about St. Luke's plan to become a Healthcare Tree Canopy member and the benefits to staff and patients of growing and caring for our living infrastructure.

Register Online

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Lecture Series on Climate and Health - St. Luke's

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Join us as we explore connections between climate change and health in Idaho.

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VIDEO:  Plastic Earth -- plastics last a LONG time!

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VIDEO:  Plastic Earth -- plastics last a LONG time!

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Submitted by Danielle George.

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documentary that explores the urgent need to address the global plastic crisis. With plastic production from fossil-based sources on the rise, the world is facing an existential threat from climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.

The film follows Janice Overbeck, a concerned mother, as she embarks on a journey to uncover the full extent of the problem and the innovative solutions being developed to tackle it. Through interviews with leading scientists, engineers, researchers, and environmental advocates, Janice gains unique insights into the efforts to control the plastic epidemic.

Featuring the stories of the world's unsung heroes, "Plastic Earth" showcases the innovative technologies and visionary solutions that offer hope for a sustainable future.

This timely and impactful documentary will inspire and inform audiences about the

importance of taking action to protect our planet for generations to come."

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It's 2022. Single-use petroleum plastics are still the #1 most polluted item in our environment. Film offers solutions & environmental sustainability answers.

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The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles Mann: 9780345802842 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

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From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views...

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VIDEO: Kiss the Ground Documentary (released 2020) 1 of 3

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VIDEO: Kiss the Ground Documentary (released 2020) 1 of 3

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Kiss the Ground, a 1.5 hour documentary, reveals that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. The film artfully illustrates how, by drawing down atmospheric carbon, soil is the missing piece of the climate puzzle.

Narrated by Woody Harrelson and is found on Netflix.

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Narrated and featuring Woody Harrelson, Kiss the Ground is an inspiring and groundbreaking film that reveals the first viable solution to our climate crisis.

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IWCF Symposium '24: Luncheon EMCEE Shawn Shepherd-2021

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'24 Symposium Luncheon facilitated by Shawn Shepherd, IWCF member!

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'24 Symposium Luncheon facilitated by Shawn Shepherd, IWCF member!

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The symposium "Food for Thought" luncheon, featuring Dana Gunders from ReFED, will be facilitated by Shawn Shepherd, an IWCF member and ReFED employee! Learn more about Shawn in this "Welcome to IWCF" feature.

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ReFED Blog: 5 Proven Food Waste Solutions for 2024

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ReFED Blog: 5 Proven Food Waste Solutions for 2024

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Interesting read in the ReFED blog post dated Feb 2024. Amazing amounts of food waste can be avoided!

Submitted by Teresa Broadus.

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If you read our recent Food Waste Forecast, then you know that 2024 holds great promise for food waste reduction. To make even more progress than we did in 2023, we thought we'd look at some strategies and technologies that businesses and consumers can leverage to further reduce food waste this year. Below are five solutions that have shown proven effectiveness in reducing waste and mitigating environmental impacts across multiple sectors of the food supply chain and will be imperative to reducing food waste in 2024.
Markdown Alert Applications
Sector: Retail, Foodservice | Annual Food Waste Diversion (Tons): 638k | Annual CO₂e Reduction (Tons): 2.86M | Annual Net Financial Benefit: $2.62B
Retailers have an opportunity to enhance customer engagement and reduce food waste by embracing e-commerce platforms. According to a 2022 estimate by McKinsey, e-commerce penetration is expected to more than double over the next five years. This surge offers a valuable chance for retailers to integrate markdown technologies into their sales strategies. Markdown alert applications - which notify consumers in real time of markdowns on excess food - provide a seamless way for retailers to sell more product nearing the end of its shelf life that might otherwise go to waste. According to a study by the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment (PCFWC), markdown alert technologies can also help retailers reduce food waste by developing new sales channels and attracting price-conscious consumers who are feeling the pinch of recent food price increases. With their easy implementation and high financial benefit, markdown alert apps are poised to continue their success in the coming years.
Sample Solution Providers: , Sector: Foodservice | Annual Food Waste Diversion (Tons): 2.41M | Annual CO₂e Reduction (Tons): 1.95M | Annual Net Financial Benefit: $2.73B
Waste Tracking

A common problem among restaurants and other foodservice companies is a lack of quantifiable information about how and where food waste is generated. Some foodservice operations may believe they're already operating efficiently and with minimal waste, and others do not have the time or capacity to manually track their waste management processes. Technology-enabled waste tracking can reduce the burden and improve the efficiency of data collection, while also improving the accuracy and timeliness of insights generated. And the results can be pretty staggering. In 2021, Compass Group USA reported a 33% reduction in food waste across all of its U.S.-based cafes through waste tracking efforts. By providing operators with quantifiable information about where and why waste occurs, waste tracking allows them to identify hotspots and allocate resources accordingly.
Sector: Foodservice | Annual Food Waste Diversion (Tons): 2.41M | Annual CO₂e Reduction (Tons): 13M | Annual Net Financial Benefit: $562M
Portion Sizes
Resources On Portion Sizes:, Sector: Manufacturing, Retail, Household | Annual Food Waste Diversion (Tons): 689k | Annual CO₂e Reduction (Tons): 4.59M | Annual Net Financial Benefit: $729M
The main driver of food waste in the foodservice sector - by far - is the practice of serving portions that exceed what an average consumer can finish in one serving. In fact, according to ReFED's Food Waste Monitor, 70% of food waste in the foodservice industry can be attributed to plate waste. Focusing attention on right-sizing portions is a solution that's worked well across the foodservice industry, with two PCFWC pilot projects seeing significant results last year. Making adjustments to standard ratios, investing in vessels and equipment to right-size offerings, and training staff on more precise menu specifications all led to food waste reduction across several hospitality pilot sites along the West Coast. Similarly, portion sizing led to a 60% reduction in waste at Greenbiz Group's Circularity conference last year. Along with other consumer-facing interventions - like trayless dining and buffet signage - right-sizing portions can raise awareness and influence consumer behavior to significantly reduce waste in foodservice operations.

Active & Intelligent Packaging
Sectors: Retail, Household | Annual Food Waste Diversion (Tons): 3.14M | Annual CO₂e Reduction (Tons): 18.9M | Annual Net Financial Benefit: $17B
Ambiguity surrounding date labels often leads consumers to discard perfectly edible food. ReFED estimates that this behavior accounts for nearly 7% of the total food waste generated in the United States. One solution to address the confusion caused by date labels is active and intelligent packaging, which utilizes a number of technologies to both slow down the process of food going bad and to alert consumers about the quality of that food. "Active" packaging delays spoilage by absorbing ethylene, controlling moisture levels, and reducing microbial activity. Meanwhile, "intelligent" packaging incorporates chemical sensors that provide consumers with real-time, accurate information about a product's freshness and safety. Integrating intelligent packaging technologies not only benefits consumers but also opens new business opportunities in digitization. Companies can efficiently track, sense, and communicate product attributes to both manufacturers and consumers, enhancing supply chain management, product quality control, and customer engagement.
Sample Consumer Education Campaigns: While this list is by no means exhaustive, these are five solutions that could play a big role in the fight against food waste in 2024 and beyond. From their positive environmental impacts to their focus on upstream measures to prevent waste in the first place, these solutions are just the start of a less wasteful year. For more information on these solutions and numerous others, check out ReFED's Solutions Database in the Insights Engine. ,
Consumer Education Campaigns

Consumer education campaigns stand out as a highly effective solution for reducing food waste, offering significant financial benefits across various sectors. And when paired with other solutions, they become even more impactful. In the retail sector, educational messaging - particularly when combined with selling food via markdown platforms - helps shoppers see the value and quality in food beyond its price or appearance. According to a 2017 report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), giving customers the option to purchase nontraditional products via e-commerce platforms while educating them about the uses and quality of the product can increase the sale of these items. Beyond individual product sales, research suggests that incorporating social norm messaging into strategies can induce long-term behavior change - framing food waste as socially unacceptable elevates the importance of reducing food waste at home and motivates people to change their habits. The "Save More Than Food" campaign resulted in a 23% decline in household food waste, exemplifying how powerful consumer education campaigns can be.

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A data-driven guide for businesses, government, funders, and nonprofits to collectively reduce food waste at scale. Together, we can reduce U.S. food waste by 50% by 2030.

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From Dana Gunders - our '24 Food for Thought  luncheon speaker!

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From Dana Gunders - our '24 Food for Thought  luncheon speaker!

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A new 11-min TED talk from Dana published June 2024. She is working hard to reduce food waste and will be our guest at our "Food for Thought" luncheon.

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TED.com, home of TED Talks, is a global initiative about ideas worth spreading via TEDx, The Audacious Project, TED Books, TED Conferences, TED-Ed and more.

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PDF:  2020 update on Project Drawdown (book  published 2017)

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PDF:  2020 update on Project Drawdown (book  published 2017)

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Although 2020 is considered a life-time ago, this may give you some context regarding Project Drawdown -- what it is and how it was created. Learn more on https://drawdown.org/

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IWCF Symposium '24: Jonathan Foley: The climate solutions worth funding - now

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From Jonathan Foley - our '24 symposium Keynote Speaker

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From Jonathan Foley - our '24 symposium Keynote Speaker

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Listen to this July 2023 10-min TED talk from Jonathan Foley. Submitted by Jena Vasconcellos

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Jonathan Foley: The climate solutions worth funding - now

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When it comes to climate solutions, "now is better than new, and time is more important than tech," says scientist Jonathan Foley. He presents a six-part framework to more efficiently address climate change, from better aligning capital with carbon to utilizing affordable solutions that are ready to go now.