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A Community Toolkit for Change Building Sustainability Together A COMMUNITY TOOLKIT FOR CHANGE sustainableamerica.com Community Toolkit For Change 2 Introduction 3 Food 4 Preventing Food Waste 5 Community Composting 8 Growing Local Food 11 Food Rescue 15 Environment 17 Nature 18 Waste Reduction 20 Fuel 23 Idling 24 Walking & Biking 26 Carpooling & Carsharing 28 Appendix 31 Garden Sharing Checklist 32 How to Host a Film Screening 33 How to Fund Community 36 Idling Pledge Form 37 sustainableamerica.com Community Toolkit For Change 3 INTRODUCTION In the movement to make our society more sustainable and resilient there is no one right approach, no silver bullet that will solve all our food and fuel problems. It’s going to take changes big and small, from major food system shifts to individual choices. But in between lies an area full of potential to influence both ends of the spectrum: communities. Person-to-person and neighbor-to-neighbor environmental actions can help positive behaviors ripple through a community. Working together toward positive changes also lifts our spirits, creates much need social connection, multiplies our impact, and leaves us wanting to do even more. In that spirit, we’ve assembled a guide full of ideas that you can do in community to improve sustainability in three areas: food, environment, and fuel. Since every community is different, these are jumping-off points, complete with resources, that you can use to make these projects your own. And how you define community is up to you — it could be your neighborhood or apartment building, workplace, place of worship, or school. We encourage you to also survey what’s already happening in your community. Search for groups on Meetup or Facebook, or look for local chapters of national environmental organizations. Does your church or school have an environmental committee or club? Tap into what they are doing, invite others, and bring some of these ideas to the table. If you’re ready to make a difference, browse through this guide and pick a project, grab some friends and dig in. IDEAS FOR ACTION KEY Throughout the toolkit, you’ll find ideas for different levels of action. VOLUNTEER NEIGHBOR -TO- BUILDING COMMUNITY Ideas for finding NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY PROJECT communities to get Ideas for one-on-one Group actions that Long-term projects that involved with cooperative actions strengthen community and require higher levels of environment in tandem commitment and organization sustainableamerica.com Community Toolkit For Change 4 FOOD Preventing Food Waste 5 Community Composting 8 Growing Local Food 11 Food Rescue 15 sustainableamerica.com Community Toolkit For Change 5 PREVENTING FOOD WASTE Food waste is one of the most pressing problems we face. In the U.S., as much as 40% of the food we produce never gets eaten. Most of it ends up in landfills where it produces methane, a major contributor to climate change. This wasted food is also a waste of the valuable land, water, and fuel that goes into producing it. Households are responsible for the biggest slice of America’s total food waste. In fact, it’s estimated that the average person wastes close to a pound of food per day, costing a family of four up to $1,500 a year. Every person should be working in their own kitchen to reduce food waste, but there are several ways to work together to waste less too. IDEAS FOR ACTION Share Extra Food If you have food you’re not going to eat — extra produce from your garden, leftovers from a party, or a gallon of milk you won’t drink before vacation — instead of letting it go to waste, look for ways to share with your neighbors. You could simply text people you know, or offer it up on a site likeNextdoor.com. There’s also Olio.com, an app that NEIGHBOR notifies others when you have something to share. -TO- NEIGHBOR Host a Salvaged Food Dinner Party Want to have fun with friends and learn more about food waste? Host a dinner made from ingredients that would have otherwise been thrown away. COMMUNITY Plan the Party PROJECT Pick a date and location, and recruit a friend to help. Make your guest list and ask everyone to bring items that are being neglected, in danger of going bad or are beyond their sell-by date. Items like: carrot greens, limp herbs, the stalk and outer leaves of cauliflower, bruised fruit, stale crackers, etc. (Things not to use: expired meat, milk, or items covered in mold.) Have your friends bring their items over a day or two before the dinner. sustainableamerica.com Community Toolkit For Change 6 PREVENTING FOOD WASTE Create the Menu Make of list of the ingredients you’ve gathered, then use it to search for recipes and start building a menu. Assess your salvaged ingredients and think about what basics you can make from them. Start simple with soup, stocks and spreads, but don’t be scared to be creative or unconventional with a traditional recipe. Think about what you can make in advance and heat later or serve chilled. Don’t make it too complicated. Remember, this is supposed to be fun! If you need more ingredients, ask neighborhood restaurants if they have any scraps they can donate to your dinner. Visit your local farmer’s market and ask vendors if they have items that are “ugly,” bruised or being passed over that they will donate or sell cheaply. The remaining few items, if any, can be picked up at the grocery store. Party Timeline The day before the party, roast vegetables for soup and make pesto or stock from vegetable trimmings. The day of, print out a menu to highlight what went into each dish and who or where the donations came from. During dinner, consider leading a discussion about food waste and swapping tips for reducing food waste at home. You can find stats and tips on IValueFood.com. The day after, compile the recipes, list every ingredient so you’ll know how much food was rescued from the landfill, and send to the attendees. If you need more ingredients, ask neighborhood restaurants if they have any scraps they can donate to your dinner. Visit your local farmer’s market and ask vendors if they have items that are “ugly,” bruised or being passed over that they will donate or sell cheaply. The remaining few items, if any, can be picked up at the grocery store. sustainableamerica.com Community Toolkit For Change 7 PREVENTING FOOD WASTE Lead a Group Food Waste Challenge Are you part of a group or organization looking to make a lasting impact on environmental issues? The I Value Food: Too Good to Waste Challenge is designed for workplace, school, religious or community groups, or it can be done by a group of neighbors or as a city-wide challenge. COMMUNITY PROJECT During the first week, each participant does a home food waste audit by tracking their preventable food waste and analyzing what is going to waste and why. During the following three weeks, participants are emailed tips, tools, and strategies to try as they continue to track their waste. By the end of the month, the online tracker calculates how much waste they were able to prevent. Doing this challenge as a group helps keep people engaged, encourages competitiveness, and inspires a valuable exchange of ideas. Group challenges generate excitement and hold participants accountable. And if you offer an incentive for people to participate and succeed, they will be more likely to stick with it and learn something new. RESOURCES I Value Food ivaluefood.com Sustainable America’s campaign to help consumers reduce food waste, including a 4-week challenge Save the Food savethefood.com A public service campaign to combat food waste, from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Olio olioex.com Connects neighbors with each other and with local businesses so surplus food can be shared, not thrown away. sustainableamerica.com Community Toolkit For Change 8 COMMUNITY COMPOSTING As we pointed out on page 5, as much as 40% of the food we produce never gets eaten, and most of it ends up in landfills where it produces methane and contributes to air, water, and soil pollution. Instead of causing these problems, food can be recycled through composting into rich, soil-building material that can be used to fertilize plants naturally. Unfortunately, only 3% of food waste is recycled into compost in the United States. Very few areas of the United States offer city-wide curbside composting services, but the good news is that composting can be done almost anywhere. You can certainly compost on your in your backyard or apartment, but you don’t have to go it alone! Composting is a great way for communities to work together to make a difference collectively. There are many ways community composting can take shape, and what works in one area may not work in another. Talk to your neighbors to find others who are interested in making composting happen where you live. Then check with your municipality to see what kinds of support they offer for composting. IDEAS FOR ACTION Compost with Neighbors If you are already composting, do you have room for more food scraps? If so, ask your neighbors if they’d like to contribute. Or, offer to help them get their own compost pile started. If you’d like to share your knowledge with more people, organize a group to meet at a coffee shop and share resources. Some people just need a friendly nudge to NEIGHBOR help get started. -TO- NEIGHBOR ShareWaste.com helps connect people who want to compost their scraps with people who are already composting, and SharedEarth.com is a similar matchmaker for shared garden spaces.
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