food waste

Now that we’re limiting trips to the grocery store and food deliveries can be few and far between, managing the food we already have is more important than ever.

NBC 7’s Consumer Bob has more on how your family can make changes in the kitchen to reduce food waste.

The Golden Globes will serve a plant-based menu for its 77th annual awards show. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Thursday that the awards show known as the “party of the year” will serve a meatless meal at Sunday’s ceremony. The organization wants the initiative to raise environmental awareness about food consumption and waste. HFPA president Lorenzo Soria says the...

Five “good news” stories from this week include puppies graduating and becoming service dogs, a woman turning 109 and ‘graduating’ hospice twice, and a new app that creates a virtual food bank.

It’s getting tougher and tougher for college students to make ends meet while also trying to get good grades, so UC San Diego launched a new app feature it hopes will help keep students’ stomachs full.

A new smartphone app aims to help students at UC San Diego who are food insecure. NBC 7’s Joe Little has more on how sharing food from events can go a long way.

Authorities say a worker has died after falling into a vat of oil at a facility near Walt Disney World.

A San Diego distillery is using discarded bread products to make vodka and fight food waste.

NBC 7 Greg Bledsoe reports on the Misadventure & Co vodka and its unique use of old items from the San Diego Food Bank for his feature Your Corner.

Hundreds of volunteers a year are picking thousands of pounds of fruit and sending it to the people who need it most in San Diego.

In this week’s “Your Corner” segment, NBC 7’s Greg Bledsoe speaks with Nita Kurmins Gilson of the local nonprofit, Produce Good. Her organization is fighting two problems simultaneously: hunger and food waste. She’s hoping to help hungry San Diegans one piece of fruit at a time.

Amid social, political and environmental tumult around the world, the Pantone Color Institute on Thursday plucked fresh and zesty “greenery” as the color of the year for 2017....
The vibrant green with yellow undertones is an answer, of sorts, to bruising 2016, signaling a yearning to rejuvenate, and to reconnect to both nature and something larger than oneself, said Laurie Pressman,...

Some 70 other homeless men are feasting on a three-course meal courtesy of one of the world’s top chefs. On the menu: Ossobuco with buttery baroa potatoes topped off with a gelato dessert.

The waterways surrounding New York City are a soup of plastic, ranging from discarded takeout containers down to tiny beads that end up in the food supply, according to a new report by an environmental group.

A man surviving solely on food culled from dumpsters as he walks barefoot across America has stopped off in Los Angeles.