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Every year American restaurants waste billions of pounds of food per year — 130 billion to be exact. What can be eaten or reused is left aside or thrown out. There is a lack of awareness surrounding this waste … But it’s not the only resource we waste: there’s space, natural resources, potential, money all wasted every day. Read more about what we’re wasting and how others are working to reduce that in Think Mag’s “Wasted” Edition tablet magazine.

 
 
 
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The Food Stamp Failure
A Week Simulating the SNAP Program

I might as well have been drunk.
I weakly paddled, my strokes completely out of sync with the other eight rowers in my boat. I heard my coach’s voice ripple across the water, but I couldn’t make out the words, though I was sure it had something to do with my poor performance. I nodded feebly, watching my shoelaces as my vision faded in and out. Dear God, I thought. Don’t let me black out in this boat…

 
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