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Mass. To Make Big Food Wasters Lose The Landfill

The Salt – Katherine Perry – August 6, 2014 - Sure, there’s plenty you can do with leftovers: foist them on your office mates or turn them into casserole.  But if you’re a big food waste generator like...

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Biogas Opportunities Roadmap

U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Energy – August 2014 – Methane is both a potent greenhouse gas and a valuable source of energy. In the Climate...

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The Biogas Solution: Turning Manure into Profit

World Wildlife Fund – July 31, 2014 - There’s another energy revolution developing from the most unlikely of places – cow manure  Today, President Obama released a “Biogas Opportunities Roadmap”, as...

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How to Reduce Food Waste

Recycling Works Massachusetts - A Guide for Businesses and Institutions in Massachusetts  You may be surprised at the large percentage of food waste that can be prevented altogether by simply...

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Butter Power

Cabot Creamery Cooperative - Real Farm Power begins in Hadley, Massachusetts. Barstow Longview Farm has been a working dairy farm since 1806 and is currently operated by 6th generation brothers Steven...

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Methane Digesters are Reducing Cows’ Carbon Hoofprints

Civil Eats – Corinna Clendenen - How much would you pay to convert manure to electricity? What if you could power your home and workplace, make fertilizer, keep organic waste out of the landfill,...

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Massachusetts’ new composting rules: What they really mean

The Boston Globe – Chris Berdik, September 25, 2014 THE BREAKFAST RUSH hits City Table, the main eatery in Boston’s Lenox Hotel, one late spring morning. In the busy kitchen, cooks and servers marshal...

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Massachusetts food disposal ban celebrated at Barstow Farm in Hadley, where...

Mary Serreze – The Republican – Massachusetts officials brought their “Food Waste Ban Full Harvest Tour” to Hadley on Friday with a visit to Barstow’s Longview Farm, the site of an innovative...

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Harnessing the Potential of a Nation’s Leftover Food

Erin Fitzgerald, National Geographic Analysis has shown an estimated 31 percent of food available for consumption is simply thrown away. It could be for any number of reasons, and thrown away by an...

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Could Massachusetts food waste ban be a road map for the rest of the country?

Jacob Azelrad, The Christian Science Monitor – November 19, 2014 BOSTON — On a Monday morning in the Boston University food court, students toss plates of food in bins with multicolored labels: green...

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