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Econundrum: 4 Tips for Less Thanksgiving Waste
By Kiera Butler | Mon November 23, 2009 2:59 AM PST
Thanksgiving is here. Family! Friends! Food! Leftovers! Garbage. This year I'm going to try really hard not to make a trough of stuffing so immense that half of it ends up in the compost bin.
A new study from the British anti-food-waste group Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) found that the average British household produces 463 pounds of avoidable food and drink waste per year, the packaging, shipping, distribution, and cooking of which creates the equivalent of 1,764 pounds of CO2. That's about the same as all the members of a household flying from NYC to Charleston, South Carolina, or a quarter of the emissions produced by a household's yearly driving miles.
The problem isn't unique to Great Britain. In his book Waste:
Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, Tristram Stuart writes that 50 percent of all food in the US is wasted enough to feed all the hungry people in the world three times over. Stuart aims much of his criticism at industrial food wasters farms, warehouses, supermarkets, and restaurants. But he has a few smart recommendations for consumers who want to reduce household food waste, too. Lesson #1: Expiration dates are not always what they seem.
When you're doing your thanksgiving
shopping, keep in mind Stuart's smart tips for decoding dates:
Understand the difference between best before" and "use by" dates: "Best" is merely
a suggestion, while "use" refers to bacteria growth and safety.
"Sell by" dates are meant to help shop staff manage stock, and should be completely ignored by consumers," Stuart writes.
Be very, very wary of dates on packaged produce. "Anyone can tell when a piece of fruit has started to go wrinkly, and decide for themselves whether it is fit to eat."
Keep your house cool. In addition to saving on your heating bill and reducing your energy use, some foods stored outside the fridge (especially fats like butter and oil) will last longer.
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Homeless
in America: Adapting Your Practice
Each day in the United States, at least 800,000 persons are homeless. This includes 200,000 children in homeless families.1 As of the beginning of the 21st century, 2.3 to 3.5 million persons were homeless at some time during an average year.2 Approximately
33 percent of these are families with children, and another 3 percent are unaccompanied minors.3 Two percent of children in the United States are homeless in the course of a year.4 Figure 13 shows the composition of the homeless population in the United States.
http://www.homelesschildrenamerica.org/
AMERICA- LAND of 371 BILLIONAIRESand 3.5 MILLION HOMELESS
United Kingdom
| Rank | Name | Citizenship | Age | Net Worth ($bil) | Residence |
| 1 | William Gates III | United States |
51 | 56.0 | United States |
| 2 | Warren Buffett |
United States | 76 | 52.0 | United States |
| 3 | Carlos Slim Helu |
Mexico | 67 | 49.0 | Mexico |
| 4 | Ingvar Kamprad & family |
Sweden | 80 | 33.0 | Switzerland |
| 5 | Lakshmi Mittal |
India | 56 | 32.0 | |
| 6 | Sheldon Adelson |
United States | 73 | 26.5 | United States |
| 7 | Bernard Arnault |
France |
58 |
26.0 |
France |
|
8 | Amancio Ortega |
Spain |
71 |
24.0 |
Spain |
|
9 | Li Ka-shing |
Hong Kong |
78 |
23.0 |
Hong Kong |
|
10 | David Thomson & family |
Canada |
49 |
22.0 |
Canada |
|
11 | Lawrence Ellison |
United States |
62 |
21.5 |
United States |
|
12 | Liliane Bettencourt |
France |
84 |
20.7 |
France |
|
13 | Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud |
Saudi Arabia |
50 |
20.3 |
Saudi Arabia |
|
14 | Mukesh Ambani |
India |
49 |
20.1 |
India |
|
15 | Karl Albrecht |
Germany |
87 |
20.0 |
Germany |
|
16 | Roman Abramovich |
Russia |
40 |
18.7 |
United Kingdom |
|
17 | Stefan Persson |
Sweden |
59 |
18.4 |
Sweden |
|
18 | Anil Ambani |
India |
47 |
18.2 | India
|
| 19 | Paul Allen | United States | 54 | 18.0 | United States |
| 20 | Theo Albrecht | Germany | 84 | 17.5 | Germany |
| 21 | Azim Premji | India | 61 | 17.1 | India |
| 22 | Lee Shau Kee | Hong Kong | 79 | 17.0 | Hong Kong |
| 23 | Jim Walton | United States | 59 | 16.8 | United States |
| 24 | Christy Walton & family | United States | 52 | 16.7 | United States |
| 24 | S Robson Walton |
United States | 63 | 16.7 | United States |
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The mysterious,
media-blackout meeting was called by Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire-Hathaway; Bill Gates, co founder of Microsoft; and David Rockefeller Jr., chairman of Rockefeller Financial Services.
A top-secret meeting of the world’s richest people to discuss the global financial crisis
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http://www.InfoWars.com It is very important for us all to realise that we're living under a simple but clever system that has been designed to contain revolution whilst projecting
the illusion of being a free, fair and open democracy. The 2-party system provides firm support for the elite to implement their agenda from the top down, whilst the ordinary people at the grassroots level squabble between themselves over which political party is the best. In reality, it doesn't matter which of the two parties you vote for because the same agenda will
unfold regardless. Hence, both parties are controlled at the very top by the same force.
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