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This article was originally posted on The Conversation Canada and was written by Kathryn Walton and Molly Gallant. Food waste is costly —...
Molly Gallant
Sep 6, 20193 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...
Molly Gallant
Aug 22, 20195 min
Trash Talk Post 4: ‘Nudging’ Food Waste Reduction
Can simple nudges, expertly positioned in our environment, reduce household food waste?
Molly Gallant
Aug 6, 20194 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...
Molly Gallant
Jul 25, 20194 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...
Molly Gallant
Jul 16, 20195 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,...
Mark Wickson
Apr 18, 20196 min
Meal Kits with Mark, Part 1
Meal kits aren’t exactly a new food trend in Canada, but with some relatively recent industry shakeups like HelloFresh Canada buying...
Molly Gallant
Mar 25, 20194 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...
Molly Gallant
Mar 18, 20193 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...
Molly Gallant
Jan 25, 20193 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...
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.
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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