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Molly Gallant

Sep 25, 2019
4 min

Reduce your food waste to save money, boost health and reduce CO2 emissions

This article was originally posted on The Conversation Canada and was written by Kathryn Walton and Molly Gallant. Food waste is costly — and not just dollar...

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Molly Gallant

Sep 6, 2019
3 min

Shaping the Canadian food waste conversation

This blog post discusses our team's recently published peer-reviewed article. For the full article, please visit this page. As we have discussed in previous ...

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Molly Gallant

Aug 22, 2019
5 min

Trash Talk Post 4: ‘Nudging’ Food Waste Reduction

Can simple nudges, expertly positioned in our environment, reduce household food waste?

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Molly Gallant

Aug 6, 2019
4 min

Trash Talk Post 3: Technology to reduce household food waste

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) or Human Machine Interface (HMI) is a growing area of research that has begun addressing issues related to ecological sustai...

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Molly Gallant

Jul 25, 2019
4 min

Trash Talk: Post 2 - Elements of successful interventions

Once the drivers of household food waste are better understood (see last week’s blog post for more on this), it is time to consider the design and implementa...

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Molly Gallant

Jul 16, 2019
5 min

Trash Talk: Post 1 - Understanding household food waste

Trash Talk: A Mini Series on Household Food Waste Overview Food waste is now recognized around the world as a pressing environmental, social and economic iss...

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Molly Gallant

Mar 25, 2019
4 min

The fight against food waste should take place in the kitchen

Growing concerns about the environmental, economic and social impacts of food waste have resulted in this topic making headlines almost daily. Although there...

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Molly Gallant

Mar 18, 2019
3 min

Data decisions and researching food waste

We are hearing more and more about food waste in the news. New and often contradictory estimates are regularly presented regarding the social, economic and e...

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Molly Gallant

Jan 25, 2019
3 min

The connection between food literacy and food waste

Two contemporary problems relating to food that we face today include rising obesity rates, encouraged by unhealthy eating habits, and staggering levels of f...

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RELATED PROJECTS

Considering the complexity of food, it is no surprise that conversations about it can be broad and diverse. In order to better understand how people think about food, Mike is involved in several projects. Learn more about each project below.

Ready to Serve

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH SUSTAINABLE RESTAURANT PROJECT

Our team is a group of students, faculty and community partners that are committed to working towards a more sustainable future for the restaurant industry. Every year we hold a forum, bringing prominent speakers to the University of Guelph to discuss issues in the Canadian Restaurant Industry.

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