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CityChanger Matt Homewood: Copenhagen’s Food Waste Warrior

Mariano Trevino - November 26, 2024

When it comes to reducing food waste, Matt Homewood isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty. As Instagram’s An Urban Harvester, he’s amassed a sizeable following documenting the shocking amount of edible food supermarkets...

Food Systems

Reducing Food Waste Through Packaging: An Unwrapped Opportunity?

Mariano Trevino - October 29, 2024

How can changing the way we store and preserve our food reduce waste in the interests of a more sustainable future? And what do cities have to do with it? We unpack these questions...

Food Waste

#13 Cake, Brew and Mend

The CityChangers Podcast - September 12, 2024

In our throwaway culture, binning a broken object and buying a replacement is often the easiest, and cheapest, solution. But the take-make-waste economy has serious costs – for the environment and for society. So, what...

Food Waste

In the Eye of the Beholder: One Co-op’s Quest to Make Ugly Fruit Beautiful

Mariano Trevino - September 10, 2024

Would you eat misshapen fruit or vegetables to save our planet? Portuguese co-op Fruta Feia successfully diverts ‘ugly’ produce from waste streams by buying it directly from farmers and selling it to customers in...

Food Waste

From the Linear to the Circular: How Guelph-Wellington is Closing the Circle on Food Waste

Mariano Trevino - August 27, 2024

What would it take to create the first truly circular food economy? In Southwestern Ontario, Canada, the small city of Guelph and the surrounding county of Wellington have set themselves the goal of finding...

Food Waste

The Case for Reducing Food Waste

Mariano Trevino - August 27, 2024

Waste not, want not – why not? Changing the way we manage food waste is an important step toward improving the global food system and making the cities we live in more sustainable. A...

Food

CityChanger Ronni Kahn: Don’t Waste Food – Use It Up!

Karl Dickinson - March 14, 2023

While people go hungry, there’s no justification for food waste – itself a massive contributor to destructive climate change emissions. What began as a one-woman mission to redistribute unwanted food has become a global...

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