If you want to get serious about reducing food waste, you’ve got be serious about composting. Sure, you help out by participating in your municipality’s food scraps collection program, but if you’re really ready to roll up your sleeves for…
It’s no secret that food waste is one of the biggest problems in the world. Did you know that $31 billion worth of food was wasted in Canada last year? It’s not only your own money that you’re throwing into…
Food security was deemed a human right back in 1948. Today, our planet is still able to produce enough food to feed our global population and yet for a third year in a row, world hunger has increased (1).…
If I told you that you could save enough water to provide four years of fresh drinking water to Canadians and save about 3 billion lbs of greenhouse gas emissions from warming up our planet every year only by…
Here at SPUD we had a pretty epic 2018, and we couldn't have done any of it without your support. Together we've saved more food from hitting landfill, donated more to our fundraising groups, and kept more carbon dioxide out…
I bet you haven’t spent much time thinking about soil- I hadn’t either until I learned that soil worldwide is being degraded at such a rate that we have less than 100 years left of useful soil for food…
Has anyone else ever returned home from vacation only to be met by a complete disaster living in your fridge? Leftovers that were once solid have now liquefied, fruits and veggies have turned slimy, and the bread has grown a…
At SPUD, we know that there’s no shortage of reasons to buy local. It’s good for people; it’s good for health, and it’s good for the environment. But if you’re still teetering on the edge of joining in on the…
At the National Zero Waste Conference on November 8th and 9th, which was held in Vancouver, SPUD was awarded a winner of the Canadian Innovation Showcase by the National Zero Waste Council and Think Beyond Plastic. The award was given…
ACT NOW, IDIOTS! The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of leading scientists around the world, recently came out with a frightening message: our global population is causing rapid warming to our planet leading us on a trajectory…
