Tools and resources

Webinar: Animal feeding and composting food waste with HealthPartners

• Food
• food waste
• Waste
• Solid waste
• Webinar
• Toolkit
• HealthPartners

(Less food to landfill toolkit)This is a five-part webinar series in food waste assessment and planning, prevention, donation, and management.   "Let's feed people, not landfills. By reducing wasted food in landfills, we cut harmful methane emissions that fuel climate change, conserve our natural resources, and protect our planet for future generations," Gina McCarthy, EPA administrator Join…

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Webinar: Food waste digestion case studies from Montefiore and Boston Medical Center

• Food
• food waste
• Waste
• Webinar
• Case Study
• Montefiore Medical Center
• Boston Medical Center
• Toolkit

(Less food to landfill toolkit)This is a five-part webinar series in food waste assessment and planning, prevention, donation, and management.   "Let's feed people, not landfills. By reducing wasted food in landfills, we cut harmful methane emissions that fuel climate change, conserve our natural resources, and protect our planet for future generations," Gina McCarthy, EPA administrator For…

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Webinar: Key insights on food waste from ReFed Report

• Food
• food waste
• Waste
• Toolkit
• Webinar

(Less food to landfill toolkit)This is a five-part webinar series in food waste assessment and planning, prevention, donation, and management.   "Let's feed people, not landfills. By reducing wasted food in landfills, we cut harmful methane emissions that fuel climate change, conserve our natural resources, and protect our planet for future generations," Gina McCarthy, EPA administrator…

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Webinar: Food donation with Feeding America

• Food

(Less food to landfill toolkit)This is a five-part webinar series in food waste assessment and planning, prevention, donation, and management.   "Let's feed people, not landfills. By reducing wasted food in landfills, we cut harmful methane emissions that fuel climate change, conserve our natural resources, and protect our planet for future generations," Gina McCarthy, EPA administrator In …

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Webinar: Food waste assessment and prevention

• Food
• food waste
• Solid waste
• Webinar
• Toolkit

(Less food to landfill toolkit)This is a five-part webinar series in food waste assessment and planning, prevention, donation, and management.   "Let's feed people, not landfills. By reducing wasted food in landfills, we cut harmful methane emissions that fuel climate change, conserve our natural resources, and protect our planet for future generations," Gina McCarthy, EPA administrator Part…

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Seattle Children’s Garden Seattle Children's (2016)

• Green Building
• Seattle Children's Hospital
• Exemplary Document
• Food
• Report

Seattle Children’s Hospital has promoted onsite food producing vegetable gardens for a couple of reasons. The first is to connect patients and families to healthy foods and let children experience harvesting, cooking and eating local organic produce. The second is to test the capacity for supplying produce to kitchen operations.   In the teaching garden, nutritionists hold classes on growing…

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Palomar Health: Sustainable, local, and organic food purchasing

• Food and Beverage Purchasing
• Food Case Study
• Food
• Case Study
• Food Service

With its position in the community, 4,400 employees, and over 2 million meals prepared per year, Palomar Health has a significant opportunity to make a positive impact on human health and the environment by serving more sustainable, local, and organic produce. This case study highlights this California health system's efforts to leverage the supply chain, collaborate with other hospitals, educate…

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Advocate Health Care: Introduction of antibiotic-free meat

• Food
• Antibiotics
• Exemplary Document
• Advocate Health Care
• Food Tool

Advocate Health Care provides a list of frequently asked questions and answers about phasing in antibiotic-free meat to their hospital as part of their environmental stewardship and antibiotic stewardship programs.  

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Montefiore Medical Center: On-site food waste digestion

• Food
• Food Case Study
• Case Study
• Montefiore Medical Center
• Waste
• food waste
• Toolkit

(Less food to landfill toolkit) Montefiore partnered with EnviroPure Systems for on-site food waste digestion and process to gray water. Montefiore has diverted almost 250,000 pounds of food waste from the landfill since installing the on-site digester in September 2014. By eliminating the need to haul the organic waste, Montefiore has reduced carbon emissions and saved almost $15,000 in pickup…

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10 ways to drink water model flyers and poster

• Food
• Exemplary Document
• Amery Hospital
• Poster

A better option for hydration and quenching thirst than sugar-sweetened beverages is water, and in the United States, tap water has been proven to be just as safe, or safer, than the bottled version.  This poster from Amery Hospital displays 10 ways to make drinking water more flavorful.   

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