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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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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHow 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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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...
View ArticleMethane 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,...
View ArticleMassachusetts’ 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...
View ArticleMassachusetts 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...
View ArticleHarnessing 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...
View ArticleCould 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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