New York City

Don't waste that food! Learn how Josh Treuhaft and Chef Celia Lam's Salvage SupperClub creates gourmet food out of what might otherwise become food waste. Read More

Did you know Green Moms inspired the 2014 NYC pilot composting program? Sustainability Coordinator, Jenny Prescott, started a composting program in her daughter's NYC public school. The waste-reducing results will inspire you - and an entire city. Read More

If Trash Could Talk contains 60 poems, stories and musings about trash, waste and wastefulness. Written by Jacquie Ottman, a passionate, lifelong waste hater, author, and zero waste expert, it will amuse, delight, and ideally, provoke and inspire a new consumer culture. Read More

Live in NYC? Want to cut down on food waste? Check out these 7 tips and save money, cut down on climate emissions and help NYC get to zero waste. Read More

Think there's too much waste and wastefulness in the world? Jacquie Ottman offers four strategies for creating a new consumer culture. It fights waste, climate change and addresses the significant trash woes in her hometown of New York City. Read More

Tips on how to cut down waste in New York City Read More

Want to learn how to hold a fun swap event in your community? Learn from the Swap, Share, and Shmooze event held in NYC's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. Reduce waste and promote neighborliness. Read More

Ten great ways apartment residents in NYC can reduce waste via free DSNY recycling collection programs, free online resources and low-cost methods for sharing, borrowing, swapping, repairing and more with neighbors. Four strategies for measuring success, too. Read More

Stop throwing away clothing that becomes torn or worn! Jussara Lee has a better, more beautiful solution: mend it artfully and visibly, with what she calls 'Visible Mending'. Read More

Hyperlocal sharing provides a number opportunities for city residents to cut down on waste, save money, and build community. New York City provides examples for all city dwellers to get inspired by. Read More

What could be more creative than repurposing ordinary objects for art projects in schools? That's the magic behind NYC's Materials for the Arts, a reuse center that puts used materials into the creative hands of young artists. Harriet Taub, the Executive Director of the organization, explains more. Read More

Now that I’ve awakened from my independent possession-owning-maintaining-inventorying stupor (and in a city and country where the costs of doing same are starting to escalate), I’ve started to take some steps to avoid R-R-R Redundancy in my own life. Read More