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A Love Affair With Worms
What is Vermicomposting? It almost sounds like a foreign word, but vermicomposting is the process of using worms to compost food waste into a rich, black hummus. The “hummus” is actually a compost of...
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How To Compost In Your Apartment
Do you feel a tinge of guilt every time you throw out an extra slice of tomato? Do you see your neighbor’s garden thriving on the rich compost he feeds it? Think you couldn’t possibly compost because...
View ArticleBokashi
We’ve talked about how to compost in your apartment with worms (vermicomposting), and there are a variety of systems to compost in your backyard, but what can you do with the leftover meat and dairy...
View ArticleSustainable America’s Resolutions
Sustainable America has already resolved to take action to make the American food and fuel systems more resilient and sustainable. In 2013, we will launch several initiatives to help raise public...
View ArticleThe Future Looks Bright for Compost Pioneers
We recently profiled some of the enterprising entrepreneurs who are building incredible businesses based on reducing food waste. But on an even larger scale, commercial waste facilities have begun...
View ArticleTotal Reuse: One Bin for All
The city of Houston was recently named one of the winners in the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayor’s Challenge competition. The contest pitted 300 ideas against one another to find the most innovative...
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Music, Summertime and Food Waste
Public events like conferences, concerts and festivals present a great opportunity to make a dent in the 40% of food wasted in the United States. With that in mind, we’ve partnered with the Alive @...
View ArticleFood Waste For Fresh Produce
Let’s consider a productive food waste cycle: Instead of throwing away organic food waste, it can be turned into compost using a variety of methods – worm bins, bokashi bins, traditional compost, etc....
View ArticleMaking a Green Fest Even Greener
Green and eco-living community festivals are popping up all around the country. They’re a fun way to learn about new sustainable lifestyle ideas, meet people in your community who are passionate about...
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Behind the Scenes at a Zero-Waste Event
Earlier this month, as the official Food & Waste Education Partner for the SXSW Eco 2013 conference in Austin, Sustainable America worked to capture and compost food waste from the third-annual...
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How to Compost a Halloween Pumpkin
It might be a stretch to think of pumpkins as food once they’re carved and lit and spooky. But just as many resources went into growing your toothy jack o’lantern as did your lunch—and it will produce...
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Bowls Full of ‘Chowda’ with Zero Waste
Sustainable America is headquartered in New England, which means we love our chowder. So when we had the chance to help make the 6th-annual Chowdafest a zero-waste event, we jumped at the opportunity....
View Article6 Ways to Green Your Super Bowl
This year’s Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey is already being celebrated as the greenest Super Bowl in the league’s history. Beyond the lucky few that will watch the event live and...
View ArticleWaste-to-Value: The Next Big Thing?
We’ve been traveling quite a bit so far this year, dodging snowstorms and waiting out flight delays, in service of investing in startups that address issues around sustainability in the U.S. food and...
View Article5 Ways to Green Your K-Cup
Since Keurig’s K-Cup coffee system arrived on the market in the late ‘90s, single-serve coffee makers have exploded in popularity. In fiscal year 2013 alone, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, owner of...
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Peanuts and Cracker Jacks and…Compost?
Composting may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about eating at a ball game, but the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is working to change that. This week, the...
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Sustainable America & Grind2Energy Hit the Road to Promote Composting!
Warmer weather is a sign of lots of great summer things to come, including one of our favorites: outdoor festivals. Last year, we helped make a summer concert series in Connecticut a zero-waste...
View ArticleEcoScraps: Sowing Success from Wasted Food
If you’ve been keeping up with Sustainable America, you know that we’re on a mission to divert food waste from landfills and repurpose it into sustainable, value-added products like compost. We’re...
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‘I want to compost, but…’
Even though more and more cities around the nation are offering compost pickup along with their trash and recycling, most of us are on our own to figure out how to recycle our food waste. And the rate...
View ArticleHow Fertilizer Made from Food Waste Can Help Drought-Stricken Farms
Using compost and other organic matter to augment the soil is an age-old practice. However, over the last several decades, the U.S. industrial farming system has largely left it behind in favor of...
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