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friendly reminder since this is going around again: DO NOT EAT THE RICH! it’s called bio-magnification, people! the rich are at the top of the food chain, so they accumulate toxins from their food at a greatly increased rate. Instead, /compost/ the rich

Welcome to the longest summary you may ever find, AKA an overview of the UN Environment’s Global Environmental Outlook 6. I couldn’t cover everything in this 700+ page document, but I tried to highlight what I personally found most interesting and the most shareable pieces of data

I work with a wonderful team of people to develop seasonal recipes, using food scraps that might otherwise go to waste, create foraged tablescapes, and inspire our attendees to continue their zero-waste experience at home. My hope is to help you bring the Scrap Supper experience into your next dinner party or event and inspire your guests to continue the work! Make use of all of your ingredients Make sure to find out what parts of your ingredients are edible (like the beetroot stems and leaves! ) and try to incorporate them in other dishes (beet to stem spread, anyone? ) You can set a precedence for the kind of events you attend and inspire your guests to host their own zero-waste / low-waste events and keep the party going!

“The transition to the cloud could in fact increase the demand for coal and other fossil fuels despite significant gains in energy efficiency and adoption of a commitment to 100% renewable energy because of the dramatic growth in new data center construction by cloud and colocation companies such as AWS and Digital Realty in Virginia and other hot spots that have some of the lowest percentages of renewable electricity in the U.S.” None of us are slowing down how much we use the internet): ” Looking forward, global estimates of data center demand in 2030 anticipate an increase of three to 10 times current levels, with high end estimates of projected data center electricity demand alone reaching 13% of global electricity consumption. “US data centers were responsible for consumption of 626 billion liters (165 billion gallons) of water in 2014, which includes both water consumed directly at data center sites and water used to generate the electricity that powered them that year. Like Amazon Web Services (AWS), for example: “Green campaigners bemoan the fact that the details of AWS’s electricity consumption and its carbon footprint remain under wraps; on its corporate website, the story of its use of renewable energy suddenly stops in 2016.