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Here are some core resources about hunger, food waste, and food waste's impact on climate change:

• Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill, by NRDC, August 2017
• American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It), by Jonathan Bloom
• Food Wastage Footprint and Climate Change, United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization, November 2015
• How Bad of a Greenhouse Gas is Methane?, Scientific American, December 2015.
• ReFED's Roadmap to Reduce U.S. Food Waste by 20%
• Just Eat It: A Food Waste Movie
• John Oliver on Food Waste
• USDA Guidelines on Food Product Dating - "Use-By", "Best-By" and "Sell-By" Dates: What do they mean, and how long does food stay safe to use?
• The Cost of Being Californian: Self-Sufficiency Standards, Inisght Center for Community Economic Development, April 2018
• Income Inequality in the San Francisco Bay Area, by ExtraFood Consulting Economist Dr. Jon Haveman
• Poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area, by ExtraFood Consulting Economist Dr. Jon Haveman
• Fighting Hunger in San Francisco and Marin, Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality
• Missing Meals in San Francisco and Marin, SF-Marin Food Bank, February 2017
• 10 Things You Need to Know About the Circular Economy - The Guardian
• Circular Economy System Diagram - Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Here are some recent articles and websites:

• Your Trash Is Emitting Methane In The Landfill. Here's Why It Matters For The Climate, by NPR, July 2021

• To Stop Food Waste, We Need to Confront Our Food Anxiety, by Bonappetit, May 2021

• The $400 Billion Food Problem Not Enough Of Us Are Talking About, by Delish, April 2021

• Surge in child hunger overwhelms richest US counties, by CNN, March 2021

• Column: You waste more than $1,000 of food a year. Chew on that, by Los Angeles Times, March 2021

• A third of all food in the U.S. gets wasted. Fixing that could help fight climate change., The Washington Post, February 2021

• Battle against food waste working, but 35% still lost, affecting climate, report finds, San Francisco Chronicle, February 2021

• The COVID-19 crisis has already left too many children hungry in America, by The Brookings Institution, May 2020

• Farms aren't tossing perfectly good produce. You are.
  Washington Post — March 8, 2019
• Spoiler alert: How to read those "sell by" and "use by" labels on food
  Washington Post — October 8, 2018
• The climate impact of the food in the back of your fridge
  Washington Post — July 31, 2018
• Colleges are no match for American poverty
  The Atlantic — May 30, 2018
• The staggering environmental footprint of all the food that we just throw in the trash
  Washington Post — April 18, 2018
• The hidden crisis on college campuses: Many students don't have enough to eat
  Washington Post — April 3, 2018
• How far do SNAP benefits fall short of covering the cost of a meal?
  Urban Institute — February 22, 2018
• Study of student basic needs [42% of CSU students are food-insecure]
  California State University — January 2018
• Dear global mayors: Solving food waste is money in the bank
  GreenBiz — December 7, 2017
• Governor Brown signs Good Samaritan Food Donation Act
  Californians Against Waste — October 10, 2017
• Legislature passes bills to cut food waste
  Californians Against Waste — September 15, 2017
• Surplus stats: Food waste by the numbers
  WasteDive.com — September 11, 2017
• What 'Sell By,' 'Best Before' and 'Use By' dates really mean
  Forbes — June 30, 2017
• How much do you know about solving global warming?
  New York Times — June 12, 2017
• Wasted food could feed a healthy diet to two-thirds of Americans
  The New Food Economy — May 15, 2017
• 5 alarming statistics from the new food waste documentary narrated by Anthony Bourdain
  Newsweek.com — May 5, 2017
• National survey shows high rates of hungry and homeless community college students
  NPR.org — March 15, 2017
• Reading, writing, and hunger: More than 13 million kids in this country go to school hungry
  Washington Post — March 9, 2017
• Reducing food waste is good for business: study
  Reuters.com — March 7, 2017
• Commonwealth's food waste reduction initiative creates 900 jobs, $175M of economic activity
  Massachusetts Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs — December 21, 2016
• Dates on food labels may actually start to make some sense
  Huffington Post — December 21, 2016
• USDA revises guidance on date labeling to reduce food waste
  USDA — December 14, 2016
• Schooling food waste: How schools can teach kids to value food
  Food Tank — November 1, 2016
• Severity of household food insecurity is positively associated with mental disorders among children and adolescents in the U.S.
  Journal of Nutrition — October 1, 2016
• Food hardship in America: Households with children especially hard hit
  Food Research & Action Center — September 2016
• Eliminate laws that cause healthy food to go to waste
  New York Times — September 21, 2016
• Simple steps by consumes can curb food waste
  New York Times — September 21, 2016
• Skipping meals, joining gangs: How teens cope with food insecurity
  NPR.org — September 15, 2016
• ASDA customers save money by reducing food waste
  University of Leeds — July 19, 2016
• From field to fork: the six stages of wasting food
  The Guardian — July 14, 2016
• Signs of a growing movement to reduce food loss and waste
  World Resources Institute — May 23, 2016
• Are you confused by food expiration dates? You're not alone.
  The Guardian — May 18, 2016
• The Fix for Tons of Wasted Food: Buy Less and Shop Smarter!
  Reuters — April 8, 2016
• Our Ridiculously Massive Food Waste Is Driving Climate Change
  HuffPost Green — April 7, 2016
• Food Surplus and Its Climate Burdens
  Environmental Science & Technology — April 7, 2016
• Food waste is already a big problem -- but it could get even bigger
  Grist — April 7, 2016
• The Enormous Carbon Footprint of Food That We Never Eat
  Washington Post — March 28, 2016
• A Roadmap to Reduce U.S. Food Waste by 20 Percent
  ReFED — March 2016
• These 27 Solutions Could Help the U.S. Slash Food Waste
  NPR.org — March 15, 2016
• 10 years to save 20B: WRAP unveils revamped Courtauld Commitment "to transform food industry"
  Edie.net — March 15, 2016
• How to Save The Planet, Reduce Hunger, and Generate $100 Billion by Reducing Food Waste
  EcoCentric — March 9, 2016
• Thou Shalt Not Toss Food: Enlisting Religious Groups To Fight Waste
  NPR.org — January 18, 2016
• How Bad of a Greenhouse Gas is Methane?, Scientific American, December 2015.
• Chef Massimo Bottura on Why the Future of Food is in Our Trash
  Wall Street Journal — December 8, 2015
• The Truth Behind the Sell-By Date
  Wall Street Journal — December 7, 2015
• Electing to Ignore the Poorest of the Poor
  New York Times — November 17, 2015
• Why Food Waste is an Urgent Global Problem
  TriplePundit — October 21, 2015
• U.S. Food Industry Backs Government Plan to Aggressively Cut Food Waste
  The Guardian — October 1, 2015
• It's Time to Get Serious About Food Waste, Feds Say
  NPR.org — September 16, 2015
• 40% of Edible Food is Wasted. Here's How You Can Help.
  Mode Media — September 11, 2015
• Food Waste Bill Given Second Reading
  Resource — September 9, 2015
• MP Seeks to Introduce Food Waste Bill
  Resource — September 4, 2015
• The Quest for Zero Waste: 6 Pointers to Reduce Trash and Increase Profits
  SmartBlog on Food & Beverage — August 19, 2015
• Food Waste is a Massive Problem. Here's How You Can Fix It.
  MSNBC — April 22, 2015
• Marin Voice; Too Many Lack Easy Access to Healthy Food
  Marin Independent-Journal — April 6, 2015
• Marin Ranked Healthiest County in State for Sixth Year; But Economic Inequality a Pitfall
  Marin Independent-Journal — March 25, 2015
• Marin's low-income residents lack easy access to healthy, affordable food.
  Marin Independent-Journal — March 22, 2015
• Low-income Marin residents missing six meals a week.
  Marin Independent-Journal — March 12, 2015
• Starve a landfill: Efficiency in the kitchen to reduce food waste
  New York Times — March 3, 2015
• Food waste is becoming serious economic and environmental issue, report says
  New York Times — February 25, 2015
• How Big is Carbon Footprint of Food Waste?
  TheBeefSite — February 14, 2014
• Another major methane study shows action is needed now to reduce emissions
  Environmental Defense Fund — February 13, 2014
• Feeding the needy isn’t a loophole: Opposing view
  USA Today — February 2, 2014
• Feeding the needy isn’t a loophole: Opposing view
  USA Today — February 2, 2014
• Food Insecurity and SNAP (Food Stamps) Participation in LGBT Communities
  UCLA School of Law — February 2014
• Food stamp fraud and errors are at historic low, while need is high, USDA report shows
  Cleveland.com — January 02, 2014
• Which American households struggle to put food on the table?
  USDA.gov — January 02, 2014
• Affeldt leads efforts to strike out hunger
  SFGiants.com — December 23, 2013
• Volunteers help tech feasts get to needy
  SFGate — December 23, 2013
• Why Is a Senate Democrat Agreeing to Another $8 Billion in Food Stamp Cuts?
  The Nation — December 6, 2013
• Measuring Food Waste
  East Bay Express — December 04, 2013
• The Changing Face of Hunger in America & Mom Inventors Win
  Katie Couric — November 27, 2013
• Food Waste Is Ripe for Profit
  Time — November 25, 2013
• The Insanity of Our Food Policy
  The New York Times — November 16, 2013
• How to feed your family from a food bank
  CNN — November 13, 2013
• Meals Lost from SNAP Cuts Would Exceed Total Annual Food Bank Distribution
  Feeding America
• Working to Reduce Food Waste — When Kids Waste Less Than Their Parents
  Edible Manhattan — November 13, 2013
• SNAP Benefits Slashed Overnight
  Food Day — November 13, 2013
• ‘In the Old Days, You’d Smell the Milk’ — Doug Rauch Wants to Sell Outdated Food at Junk-Food Prices
  The New York Times Magazine — November 8, 2013
• The Produce Isn’t Pretty, but It’s Edible
  The New York Times — November 7, 2013
• In Defense of Food Stamps
  WSJ.com — November 6, 2013
• Poverty in America Is Mainstream
• The New York Times — November 2, 2013
• Millions on food stamps facing benefits cuts
  CBS MoneyWatch — November 3, 2013
• America’s new hunger crisis
  MSNBC — October 30, 2013
• The Republicans’ War on the Poor — The GOP is pushing to decimate food-stamp programs, punishing the most vulnerable just out of sheer spite
  Rolling Stone — October 24, 2013
• The Dating Game — How Confusing Food Date Labels Lead to Food Waste in America
  Natural Resources Defense Council — October 22, 2013
• UK Supermarkets Face Mounting Pressure to Cut Food Waste
  The Guardian — October 21, 2013
• Your Scraps Add Up: Reducing Food Waste Can Save Money and Resources
  National Resources Defense Council — March, 2013
• Food Wastage Footprint: Impacts on Natural Resources
  UN Food and Agriculture Organization — 2013
• Wasted: How America is Losing Up to 40% of its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill
  National Resources Defense Council — August, 2012