{"id":2997,"date":"2008-05-16T17:22:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T23:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/2008\/05\/16\/plentiful-society-bountiful-waste-part-2\/"},"modified":"2008-05-16T17:22:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T23:22:59","slug":"plentiful-society-bountiful-waste-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/plentiful-society-bountiful-waste-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Plentiful Society, Bountiful Waste – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0Part 2 of 2 <\/strong><\/p>\n In many realms, like gasoline and clothing, simply reducing how much we consume can have a big impact on our environmental footprint. Food, on the other hand, is not a consumable that can be comfortably reduced to half or less! We all need calories to stay alive, plus nutrition to keep our bodies healthy. So how can we meet our food needs in the most sustainable ways?<\/p>\n Today at 5:00 PM, I walked into a local coffeeshop with several locations around Downtown Pittsburgh. I was nervous. This was the first time I had ever tried this before.<\/p>\n I walked up to the young man behind the counter. “What time do you close?” Six, he informed me. “Will you be throwing away any food, like pastries or whatever, at the end of the night?” He eyed me skeptically. …Yes, he conceded. “Would you mind if I came back at 6:00 and took that food off your hands for you?” OK, it was out there. What would he say next?<\/p>\n Sure, come on by.<\/p>\n Later that night, I biked over to Landslide Community Farm to share with my friends the bounty–two vegetarian wraps and four side salads.<\/p>\n