The Beauty Of Wasting Less Food And Water


I recently spoke to the photographer Joe Buglewicz, who artfully shoots spoiled food items in his conservation-themed series “Rotten.” [1 of 3]

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food 23 Nov 2012

by Patrick James, managing editor of VSL.


It made me think of Taking On Water, in which Wendy Pabich explores our most precious resource and shows how to reduce our water footprint. [2 of 3]


All told, Americans discard nearly half our food, worth $165 billion a year. Imagine how that money could be spent. [3 of 3]

Images (in order): photo by Joe Buglewicz; cover of Taking on Water (Sasquatch Books, 2012); photo by Joe Buglewicz.

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