UN Environment and Yale present a sustainable tiny home in NYC
U.N. Environment and Yale University’s School of Architecture has unveiled an innovative tiny home that explores...
Dairy farmers’ excess milk gets a second life feeding the hungry
Automation may have caused a significant surplus of dairy products and a corresponding price drop, but one non-profit...
The Agraloop turns food waste into sustainable clothing fibers
Don't throw it out — throw it on. The Agraloop Bio-Refinery, a new technology developed by materials science...
Broccoli powder could pack a veggie punch in smoothies, soups — and lattes
Do you consume the recommended serving of vegetables every day? Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and...
Ovie’s ‘Smarterware’ smart food storage aims to help reduce food waste
Around 40 percent of food goes to waste in America yearly, which costs the average family of four about $2,000...
This fine-dining chef transforms food waste into creative gourmet dishes
Around one third of food produced in America is thrown out. But Tim Ma, a former electrical engineer-turned-chef,...
OLIO launches revolutionary food sharing app to reduce waste
OLIO is an online app designed to reduce food waste through social networking. After creating an account, OLIO...
France is the world’s most sustainable food country
Thanks to proactive measures put in place to curb food waste, France now ranks #1 in the world when it comes to...
This company wants to turn food waste into building materials — here’s how
What do peanuts, rice, bananas, potatoes, and mushrooms have in common? In addition to being delicious, they could...
Genetically engineered apples that never brown are hitting store shelves next year
The Arctic Apple, a variety of fruit that has been genetically engineered to never brown - even when cut into pieces...
How to cook a whole pumpkin (seeds, guts and all)
Pumpkin season is officially upon us, which means we'll be seeing a lot of Jack O'Lanterns, pies, and seasonal...
The free grocery store fighting food waste and hunger
The Free Store, a non-profit organization and grocery store based in Wellington, New Zealand, is serving food for...
IKEA’s SPACE10 lab is bringing a pop-up vertical farm to London
Ever wondered what the future of food looks like? IKEA’s SPACE10 lab is working on making food production smarter...
New refrigerator camera takes aim at food waste
We know food waste is an issue, but often it's all too easy to forget about that bag of lettuce in the back of...
IKEA plans to cut food waste in half by 2020 — here’s how
You now have one more reason to love IKEA. By 2020, the Swedish company plans to cut food waste by 50% at its stores...
Peek inside the zero-waste kitchen of the future
The kitchen of the future will be healthier for our planet and improve our family ties through food. That's the...
Research shows the UK tosses out 1.4 million edible bananas – a day
Grocery stores to food banks to big corporations like Walmart and Hasbro have all taken measures to combat food...
Beer made from recycled bread is coming to the U.S.
A brewery in London is taking a bite out of food waste. Launched last year, Toast makes its beers from surplus...
Breathtaking seaside hotel in Thailand practices radical reuse, grows 100% of its produce
Overlooking a private bay along the Northern Coast of Koh Samui, Thailand, The Tongsai Bay Hotel boasts more than...
Quebec food waste program to rescue 30.8 million pounds of food
Sending leftover food from grocery stores to food banks may seem like a simple answer to food waste, but management...
British supermarket chain launches trucks powered by food waste
Food waste has always been something of a bugbear with Waitrose, an upscale British grocer that stopped shoveling...
The top 5 Inhabitat videos of the year
From foraging for mushrooms (and avoiding the poisonous ones) to eating your banana peels instead of throwing them...
This Danish grocery store selling expired goods is so popular that it’s opening a second branch
Slashing food waste is becoming trendy in Denmark. A grocery store in Copenhagen called Wefood is peddling expired...
Fierce public backlash erupts over Japanese skating rink full of frozen fish
Officials at Space World, a Japanese theme park, issued a plea for forgiveness over the weekend, after public backlash...
UK opens its first ‘pay-as-you-feel’ food waste grocery store
The first food waste grocery store in the United Kingdom has opened, operating on a “pay-as-you-feel” model...
VIDEO: Regrow scallions all year-round with your own personal green onion garden
MATERIALS AND TOOLS: - Scallions - An old plastic egg crate or other repurposable plastic container - Scissors...
NYC expands organics composting collection to reach nearly 1M residents
New Yorkers will be seeing a lot more of those brown refuse containers around the city as the sanitation department...
Beautiful, odorless tabletop ecosystem is powered with food waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS57-hFcV8s According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), around...
New app lets you order cheap meals that would otherwise be thrown out
A new app recently released in the UK allows users to order leftover food from nearby restaurants at a huge discount....
New law requires NYC big businesses to compost food waste
When 50,000 fans fill up Yankee Stadium to cheer on the Bronx Bombers or 20,000 concertgoers rock out at Madison...