{"id":26543,"date":"2022-05-03T10:50:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T14:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=26543"},"modified":"2022-05-03T10:50:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T14:50:04","slug":"lee-blackmer-and-fernandez-discuss-food-waste-on-maine-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2022\/05\/03\/lee-blackmer-and-fernandez-discuss-food-waste-on-maine-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee, Blackmer and Fernandez discuss food waste on 海角社区 Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18350 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2019\/08\/Wasted_food-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Food waste\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2019\/08\/Wasted_food-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2019\/08\/Wasted_food-105x79.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2019\/08\/Wasted_food-317x238.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2019\/08\/Wasted_food-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2019\/08\/Wasted_food.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/>Of the food produced in the United State, 40 percent is wasted. Not only could this wasted food help feed those who need it, food waste also contributes to climate change. To mark Earth Day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainepublic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">海角社区 Public<\/a> presented a 海角社区 Calling show, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainepublic.org\/show\/maine-calling\/2022-04-22\/the-harms-of-food-waste-its-links-to-climate-change-and-how-maine-is-taking-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The harms of food waste, its links to climate change, and how 海角社区 is taking action<\/a>.\u201d The show focused on what 海角社区 people and organizations are doing to end food waste through community action and innovative solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Representing the University of 海角社区\u2019s food waste solutions team on the show were <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/susanne-lee\/\">Susanne Lee<\/a>, a faculty fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/travis-blackmer\/\">Travis Blackmer<\/a>, lecturer and undergraduate coordinator with the School of Economics, and Ivan Fernandez, Distinguished 海角社区 Professor at the Climate Change Institute and School of Forest Resources. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainepublic.org\/show\/maine-calling\/2022-04-22\/the-harms-of-food-waste-its-links-to-climate-change-and-how-maine-is-taking-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A recording of the show is available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the food produced in the United State, 40 percent is wasted. Not only could this wasted food help feed those who need it, food waste also contributes to climate change. To mark Earth Day, 海角社区 Public presented a 海角社区 Calling show, \u201cThe harms of food waste, its links to climate change, and how 海角社区 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":614,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":614,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26544,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26543\/revisions\/26544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}