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Green New Deal Flashcards

1
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what percentage of food makes up in landfill

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20%

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Subscription meal services can save how much food waste

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Based on some research up to 2/3

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How large is the wasted food if a farm

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The food used to grow the food that is wasted globally is larger than China

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Root vegetables are responsible for how much food waste

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20%

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How much water is wasted on wasted food

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Globally,

70% of freshwater is used for agriculture

25 % of the world’s fresh water supply is used on wasted food.

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Single stream recycling

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From the 90s most of America recycled single stream, that Means everything just went into the blue bin being paper plastic and metal

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How much food makes it from farm to table

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about 30% of food is wasted before it makes it from farm to table

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How much of the food supply goes to trash

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As much as 40% of nations food ends up in the trash

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How much will farming grow by 2050

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With 2 billion more people by 2050 would increase food production by 65%

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How much has healthy amd processed food cost increased since 80s

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40%

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Cognitive dissonance

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People experience discomfort when they hold conflicting beliefs when their actions contradict their beliefs. People reduce this dissonance to relieve the discomfort The type of belief, the value of the police, besides the disparity affect influence

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How much has healthy amd processed food cost increased since 80s

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40%

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People will try to reduce this dissonance to relieve the discomfort.

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the type of belief The value of belief the size of disparity

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Trashing one egg uses how much water ?

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55 gallons

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per cent of the rain and air samples with micro plastics

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U.S. study which showed that more than 98 per cent of the rain and air samples collected over 14 months in 11 of the most remote parts of the country were polluted with microplastics.

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Much methane does landfill create

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Landfills in the US creat15 percent of the country’s emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas with a potential warming impact 34 times that of carbon dioxide. The same energy used as 12 million homes

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New York and LA energy Usage

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LA 6000 N`Y 11 000 mw

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18
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How many people in America live in a food desert

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Between 6 to 17% 35 to 80,000,000 people

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How many gallons of water for a burger

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500 gallons 2400 gallons per pound of beef

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Where is most food waste ?

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Most food waste is what is left in the field at farming

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21
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AD

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Anaerobic digestion

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22
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How many people in America live in a food desert

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About 23.5 million people live in food deserts. Nearly half of them are also low-income.[2]

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23
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How much and who to does the farm subsidies go to

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Roughly 70% of farm subsidies goes to the top 10% of industrial commercialized best capitalized farming

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24
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How many food banks in 1980 compared to today

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In 1980 there was 400 today there’s a 40,000

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How much of recycling gets contaminated

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The average recycling contamination rate is 25%, or 1 in 4 items. Fact 2: The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 75% of waste is recyclable , yet only close to 34% of it is recycled

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Aspirational recycling

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Believing that everything is recyclable or wanting everything to be recyclable

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27
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If food waste was a county

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if food waste was a country, it would represent the greatest volume of greenhouse gas emissions after the output of the two leading producers, the United States and China.

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Cognitive dissonance

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people experience discomfort when they hold conflicting beliefs or when their actions contradict their beliefs.

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29
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Food wasted

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15 percent fruits 17 percent diary 18 percent grains 20 percent of vegetables 25 percent of seafood 33 percent of meat

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How much is healthy unprocessed food increased since the 80s

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40%

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31
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How many people face food insecurity in USA

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1 in 7

32
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What is the cheapest form of healthcare

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Food

33
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How much has contamination grown in recycling in the last decade

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It’s double

34
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How much methane does landfill create

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Landfills in the US generate 50% of the countries omissions of methane a greenhouse gas with a potential impact 34 times that of carbon dioxide

35
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CDR

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Carbon dioxide reduction

36
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Where is America ranked for food insecurity in advanced economy countries by IMS report

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Last

37
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What are the requirements for food desert

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500 or 30% of the urban population needs to live more than .5 miles away from a grocery store, rural areas with 500 people or 33% of the population living more than 10 miles from a grocery store

38
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More food is wasted in production and growing but how much is wasted after ?

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The impact of wasted food is greater after farming and production with the use of transport and storage

39
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How much oil is used for wasted food

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300 million barrels of oil is wasted on food that goes to waste.

40
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What’s the best way to complain

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Create some thing

41
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How much food does the average American waste

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1 pound daily

42
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How much energy from the USA energy budget goes to wasted food

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2 1/2 percent

43
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What is the cost to supply daily nutritional and vitamin needs to a child

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25 cents

44
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How much carbon dioxide does food waste create

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3.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide.

45
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Recycling 10 of these saves laptop energy bottle creal boxr tin can

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glass bottles 28 hr Cereal box almost 1 hr Tin can 26 hr

46
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What are people noticing through Covid I’m having deliveries from Amazon and food deliveries more often

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People can notice how much boxes and wasted packaging is piling up at home from all the deliveries

47
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How much does food waste contribute to global greenhouse gas emissions?

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6%

48
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How does food waste compare to aviation

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It is 3 times greater than aviaition

49
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How much does food consumption contribute to global greenhouse emissions

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1/4 or 26%

50
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How much does the average person waste per year

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219 pounds of waste per person. That’s like every person in America throwing more than 650 averagesized apples right into the garbage

51
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How much does USA spend on food waste

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USA wastes 218 billion each year on food, with dairy products being the food item we toss out the most.

52
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How much food is left on restauarnt plates

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17% of food waste is left on plates in restaurants, mainly oversized portions

53
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What’s the cycyle for sandwiches prepared food

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12/24 hours. Important getting into a bag for too good to go

54
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How much food waste through experation label misunderstanding

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More than 80 percent of Americans discard perfectly good, consumable food simply because they misunderstand expiration labels.

55
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Vermont’s “Universal Recycling Law” details

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went into effect in July 2020 banning food scrap waste entirely. Food donations statewide have increased 40 percent.

56
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the production of wasted food in the US is equal to how many cars

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Equivalent to the greenhouse emissions of 37 million cars

57
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Food waste key areas

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Homes 43% restaurants, grocery stores food service 40% farms 16% manufacturers 2%, where too much food is produced

58
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BEST IF USED BY

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BEST IF USED BY describes quality “where the product may not taste or perform as expected but is safe to consume”;

59
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USE BY

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USE BY applies to “the few products that are highly perishable and/or have food safety concern over time.”14

60
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How much does restaurant industry spend on food waste

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An estimated $162 billion every year in costs related to wasted food.

61
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How much of farm food production wasted

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Approximately 30-40 percent of food that farmers around the world produce is never consumed.

62
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How much water in food production wasted

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Between 21 and 33 percent of water used across US farms is wasted.

63
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Grocery Store Food Waste

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About 30 percent of food in American grocery stores is thrown away. US retail stores generate about 16 billion pounds of food waste every year.

64
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US households waste how much per year in wasted food

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About $1,600 each year in produce, enough to pay for more than an entire month’s worth of groceries for a family of four.

65
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Americn waste how much on avearge per day

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Approximately one pound of food, per person, each day.

66
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What is the equivalent of wasted energy in food waste in oil gallons

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16 billion gallons.

2 percent of USA energy budget

Equivalent to almost 25% of all cars on the road

72 million cars

Tesla only added 500,000 cars in 2020

Energy wasted is like 144 Tesla companies

67
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EPA’s food waste Hierarchy

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  1. Source Reduction
  2. Feed Hungry People
  3. Feed Animals
  4. Industrial Uses
  5. Composting
  6. incinerator landfill
68
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Three areas of food reduction goals

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Three areas of food reduction goals

prevention

food donation

composting - anaerobic digestion

69
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What is the average household waste of food

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Up to 25% of household is wasted

70
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To reach the goal of reducing waste by 50% what is the target business market

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we have to do it at a consumer-based business level. Hass to be consumer based

71
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The restaurant industry spends how much per year related to wasted food.

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The restaurant industry spends an estimated $162 billion every year in costs related to wasted food.

72
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The 12 Design Principles of Permaculture

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Observe and interact.

Catch and store energy.

Obtain a yield.

Apply self-regulation and accept feedback.

Use and value renewable resources and services.

Produce no waste.

Design from patterns to details.

Integrate rather than segregate.

Use small and slow solutions.

Use and value diversity.

Use edges and value the marginal.

Creatively use and respond to change.

73
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Global water usage

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70% agriculture

10% domestic

20% industry

74
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Every Day one person drinks and eats how much of water

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Drinks – 1/2 to 1 gallon a day

Eats - 500 to 1300 gallons

75
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How much more GHG from beyond meat vs tofu

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One kilogram of Impossible Burger meat emits 3.5 times more greenhouse gases than a kilogram of tofu

76
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How many barrels of oil used for food waste created

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300 million barrels of oil is wasted on food that goes to waste. That’s 25 million cars per year on road

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