Resources

Here are some of the resources we find helpful and we hope you do as well! If you have any that you think we should add please contact us and we will take it under review.

Food Insecurity

• In 2013, nearly 700,000 people in Massachusetts struggled to put food on the table.

• 20 percent of households with children in Massachusetts reported that they lacked enough money to consistently buy food in the past twelve months.

• Project Bread: 2014 Status Report on Hunger in Massachusetts

• Feeding America: Hunger & Poverty Statistics

• Share Our Strength: No Kid Hungry Campaign

Food Waste

• According to American Wasteland, Americans waste more than 40% of the food we produce.

• $750 million is spent annually by U.S. taxpayers to incinerate discarded food, resulting in almost 4% of total U.S. oil consumption.

• United States 2030 Food Loss and Waste Reduction Goal

• Jonathan Bloom’s Wasted Food blog

• NRDC Food Facts

• NRDC’s Wasted Report

• RecyclingWorks (MA)

• ReFed’s Food Waste Policy Finder

• ReFed’s Food Waste Innovator Database

• Society of St. Andrew

• Spoiler Alert’s Beginner’s Guide to Food Waste

• US Environmental Protection Agency

• “One Country’s Table Scraps, Another Country’s Meal”

• “Wasted food has massive impact on collective carbon footprint”
  

Food Rescue Resources

• Food Rescue Locator

• Cambridge & Somerville: Food For Free

• New York City: City Harvest

• Philadelphia:  Philabundance

• San Francisco: Foodrunners

• Washington, DC: DC Central Kitchen