Posts by Michael McCord
Just as New Hampshire has yet to run a comprehensive food waste characterization study, the same could be said nationally. A landmark 2023 EPA study laid out over three decades of research about the impact of food waste and its connection to methane emissions.
“We were looking to reduce trash and taxes,” Cudworth said. “I knew it was a small step. but it was important to get buy-in from the select board.” Cudworth composed at her home and learned how little trash remained after the composting and recycling. She came to the meeting with a transparent, medium-sized bowl containing a week’s worth of food scraps from her house – lettuce, strawberry and radish tops, fruit scrapes, rice, egg shells, cucumber and potato peels. The show-and-tell worked.
What was once controversial has now become conventional wisdom: The workforce housing shortage issue is front and center as a major economic dilemma in the state. In 2020, the trio has returned with “Communities & Consequences II: Rebalancing New Hampshire’s Human Ecology,” a book, ongoing film project for New Hampshire PBS, and a community outreach program designed to assess and share organic community solutions to a vexing policy labyrinth.