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From Sustainable Economic Development to Food Systems Ag-Tech Innovation
Posted on May 6, 2020 | No CommentsRecent college graduates are increasingly valuing innovation, social justice, and sustainability in their professional goals. Like many other ambitious, problem solving, social justice and environmentally minded young people, I joined […] -
Expiration Dates: Why Confusion Surrounding Product Dating is Driving Household Food Waste
Posted on April 30, 2019 | 1 CommentMost of us have had that two-week-old gallon of milk in our fridge we weren’t too sure about. When we check the expiration date and find that it expired two […] -
Pies for Flies
Posted on April 11, 2019 | 2 CommentsWhen I say composting, what’s the first word that comes to your mind? Is it soil? food? dirt? worms? It’s almost definitely not flies–but maybe that’ll change soon. Using the […] -
Farms, Food Pantries, and Food Policy: Internship Lessons
Posted on January 26, 2019 | 8 CommentsMy internship with Cornell Cooperative Extension Orange County’s (CCEOC) Gleaning Program came to a close at the end of December. In the five months I spent working for the Glean […] -
Inter-Municipal Cooperation on Food Waste in the Hudson Valley
Posted on October 10, 2018 | 3 CommentsWith the midterms approaching, it seems that New York political ads are focused on the corruption and graft in Albany. Yet just an hour south, five municipalities in Northern Dutchess […] -
Biblical Practice Serves Modern Needs
Posted on October 2, 2018 | 1 Comment“When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, […] -
There’s Something About Waste…
Posted on August 23, 2018 | 4 CommentsThere’s always been something very appealing to me about waste. This interest has led me to investigate the inevitability as well as the unfortunate reality that is food waste. I […] -
One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Internship
Posted on July 31, 2018 | 6 CommentsOver the last several weeks I have had the pleasure of working for New York City’s Department of Sanitation (DSNY) as an Organics Outreach Graduate Intern. Most broadly DSNY is […] -
The Core of the Big Apple: Making the Most of NYC’s Organics Program–by Allie Gumas
Posted on April 19, 2018 | 2 CommentsEverybody eats. Everybody also accumulates some amount of food waste. Growing up, and well throughout my undergraduate career I thought like this: If you lived in a city, that food […]