For example, ask kids to imagine a football stadium filled with food waste every day for an entire year—that’s how much we waste in the United States alone. Or explain it through their other interests ...

As the school year kicks off in Wake County, many parents are focused on providing nutritious meals for their kids. But beyond health, there’s a growing concern about the environmental impact and ...

Whether it’s stems and skins or past-their-prime protein and produce, you’re probably throwing a lot of perfectly good food in the trash. Such waste doesn’t come cheap. The average American throws ...

As the world focuses on how to address climate change, a school in Los Angeles offers a way to getyoung people involved in addressing the issue. U.N. climate talks are wrapping up in Dubai. Some of ...

At my youngest child’s daycare, in Munich, Germany, parents are asked to fill in a chart at least a week in advance noting any specific days the child will be absent, like for scheduled travel. This ...

Good riddance to that pack of chicken thighs you never got around to making for dinner, and the single-serve yogurts that seemed like a good idea at the time. Those browning bananas on the counter?

Trang Nguyen has received funding and is affiliated with the Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre. Patrick O'Connor has received funding from the Australian Research Council, the South ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Danielle Nierenberg is a researcher and writer on global food systems. Over the years, the conversations we’ve been having about ...

Cathrine Jansson-Boyd received funding from the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP). You’ve had a long day and you’re tired. Faced with making dinner, you look in the fridge and decide to cook ...