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Community Chat — A FOOD FOCUS Because Wasted Food is a Waste! Nov 19, 7 pm

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Join us for the 2nd No Waste November Community Chats!

Thursday, November 19,  7-8 PM — A FOOD FOCUS Because Wasted Food is a Waste!

FIRST – Visit the No Waste November pages!  they are filled with information about the Pledges: 1) to Pay Attention; 2) To Reduce Food Waste (And Compost Correctly!); and 3) to Recycle Right!

          • Roughly a 3rd of the world’s food is never eaten — what can YOU do?
          • How can you store your food to prevent spoilage?
          • How can you make common foods at home (relatively easily) that are ZERO WASTE?
          • Food and other organics SHOUD NEVER EVER go into your garbage.
          • Learn tips on composting correctly and why it’s so important!

Register below so we know you’re interested, or simply cut and paste the Zoom information into your calendar.

Contact Laura to help with the effort or if you have questions – 415-866-5377

NO Waste Living JUST EAT IT Documentary: What We Learned

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NO Waste November Film – JUST EAT IT
Sorry you missed it.  But look it up to learn more about food waste.  Described as spunky, startling, funny, shocking and fascinating!!!  This online screening of the documentary explores the HUGE problem of wasted food — and how you can do your part to reduce food waste.
Lessons learned:
  • Over 1/3 of all food produced globally goes to waste.
  • The annual value of food wasted globally is $1 trillion, and it weighs 1.3 billion tons.
  • All the world’s nearly one billion hungry people could be fed on less than a quarter of the food that is wasted in the US, UK and Europe.
  • An area larger than China is used to grow food that is never eaten.
  • 25% of the world’s fresh water supply is used to grow food that is never eaten.
  •  If food waste were a country it would be the 3rd largest emitter of greenhouse gases (after China & the USA).
  • Reducing food waste is the #1 solution to the climate crisis, according to Project DrawDown – coming above electric cars, solar power and plant-based diets.
  • In most developed countries, over half of all food waste takes place in the home.
  • In the home food waste is worth $2,275 for the average family in the USA.
  • 2.3 billion people are joining the planet by 2050 – this will require a 60-70% increase in global food production. Or we can just stop throwing away our food

What you can do!  Take the pledge  and Let’s Live Consciously, Together!

Community Chats – How to Put a Plan in Place to Electrify Your Home!

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FREE – SPECIAL 4-PART SERIES CHAT!!!  Register Below

Did you know that 88% of residential natural gas use in CA if for water and space heating? Electrify Marin is a county-wide effort that encourages Marin residents to replace gas powered appliances with electric ones to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve indoor air quality! 

But when your hot water or space heater implodes,  you don’t have time to think so you need to have a plan in place! 

Join us for 4 educational planning sessions.  At the end, you totally understand the benefits of electrification and be prepared to electrify! 

INSPIRATION — Watch this video for why you should electrify!  

 

Past Chats and downloads:

Sept 3 – We learned about the Gas Appliance Contribution to your Climate Footprint and why having a plan in place for replacement is critical.  Download meeting materials:  Video Recording of Zoom Chat – Click here to watch!!  Copies of Presentation — Ann Edminster’s great presentation; – Electrify Marin’s presentation [ with great overview of available rebates!]

Sept 10th – We learned some of the components of putting a plan in place to replace your hot water and space heating systems; the importance of making your home energy efficient, and the rebates available. Video Recording of Zoom Chat – Click here to watch!!  Copies of Presentation – Electrify Marin Chat #2; BayRen.

Sept 17th – We learned about battery as a back-up energy storage; the role of solar in resiliency, and benefits of Induction stoves.  Video recording of Zoom chat – click here!. Online Guidance for Home Batteries.  Electrify Marin presentation.

Final Chat  – register below.

Sept 24th – Brief overview* plus phasing out all other gas appliances like fireplaces,  and heat pump clothes dryers, spas&hot tubs.  and of course, how to remove your gas meter! *you’ll get a link to detailed overview This is a great session where you’ll learn from experts from Electrify Marin, a couple of contractors and some of your neighbors who have installed electric appliances. 

Email us if you have questions at info@sustainablefairfax.org!

Community Chat: Recycling and Waste Minimization in the Time of Covid

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Community Chat with Sustainable Fairfax.  What we can do in these crazy times…

Thursday, August 27th, 7:00 pm.  

FREE Zoom Chat.  Recycling and Waste Minimization in the Time of Covid!  Reducing our waste and recycling right is as important as ever but seems confusing in these crazy times.  Contaminated recycling (because many of us are hopeful recyclers, but doing it wrong!) is trashing recycling.  Join us for a Community Chat with Sustainable Fairfax (and friends) to learn more and stay connected to your community.

Past Zoom Chat Link

Copy of Powerpoint Presentation

Check out our other community chats  September is a 4-part series on how to put together a plan — a critical pathway – to electrify your home!!!  It’s important to understand why.  Join us.

Community Chat: Shop Local-Fairfax is Open for Business!

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Community Chat with Sustainable Fairfax.  What we can do in these crazy times…

Normally these chats are recorded with a link from previous chats found here. But we had a problem with this recording.  UGH.   Sorry for the inconvenience.

The highlights included walking through the website Fairfax Open for Business – it’s really great so please do check it out!  We also talked to several business owners who expressed how important your patronage is to the very survival of many of the businesses in town.  We can’t take any of them for granted.  Shop Local — Shop Fairfax!