At the beginning of our final project I had put together a little 4 question survey, and shared it on Facebook to get a little bit of feedback about how and why people are wasting food, and if they compost. We weren’t able to integrate these statistics into our final presentation, nevertheless, I got some […]
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Final Presentations
The final presentations went really great and I learn’t a lot. Now my opinion is biased but our class did pretty darn good in our final presentations! Below are some of my favourite aspects and topics of peoples presentations. “The Roots” (Alyssa, Rae, and Gurnoor) Presented on hydroponics and aquaponics in apartment and office buildings. […]
Food Waste Parody
This video showed up on my Facebook news feed and was too good not to share,
Bananas…
In my grade 9 social studies class we did a whole unit devoted to bananas. Of course going into class and reading bananas on the syllabus seemed a little weird, and the whole class joked about it because it seemed so absurd. But out of all the things from junior high social studies I don’t […]
JUST EAT IT
Earlier today I was watching a John Oliver video on Food Waste in America, which was really interesting and it’s insane how much food is wasted in the States… Canada wastes a lot (31 Billion a year), and we do have a smaller population, but in the US its over 100 Billion a year… Another […]
The Supermarket Recovery Program
“The Supermarket Recovery Program (SRP) is the first of its kind in Canada and offers a unique and sustainable solution to the problems of food waste and food insecurity, in partnership with food retailers.” The SRP is a system in place in Quebec in alliance with the Food Banks as well as in ” collaboration of Provigo, […]
Bill C-231
Bill C-231 was a introduced as the First Reading, February 24, 2016. However it had failed Oct. 5, 2016 Failed. This Bill was introduced to bring awareness to Food Waste in Canada as well as develop a National strategy on how to combat food waste. Below is my re writing of the Bill (my additions are […]
Food Waste Video
Here is a bit of footage to shed light on food waste.
Composting in Residence
Growing up in a small towns I have never had much opportunity to compost because of the wildlife and dangers surrounding that. But now living in Calgary I have the opportunity to compost! But only in certain parts of the University… Throughout campus there are tons of garbage and recycling bins, and in Mac Hall […]
Brainstorm
The other day I had a huge brainstorm where I wrote down a bunch of questions surrounding food waste and sources to hopefully answer the questions: Will food waste reduction work towards the solution of our global challenge? Compost facilities Portion of compost goes to community gardens and greenhouses Maybe certain amount of compost […]