The third of four multidisciplinary panel discussions presented in 2016 by the BGFF, Reimagining Food Waste took place on August 23rd at the Joe and Vi Jacobs Center. Cooks-in-training at Kitchens for Good teamed up with local restaurant chefs to prepare a delicious feast for attendees made from ingredients that are often thrown out, like carrot tops and day-old bread.

2. Social Media
twitter.com/berrygoodfood
instagram.com/berrygoodfoodfdn
facebook.com/BerryGoodFoodFoundation
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5. PROGRAM STARTING IN 5 MINUTES

6. #BGFFfoodwaste
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8. Ylfa Muindi
• Education Program Mgr., 1to1 Movement
• “AWAY” & “Stacked” Mobile Class Teacher
• Educator, Puppeteer & Bird Watcher

9. Maria Hesse
• Chef, Designer, Writer
• Food Waste Activist
• Author, The Intentionalist Cooks! and
contributing writer, Edible SD

10. Heather Dane
• Co-Author with Louise Hay, The Bone Broth
Secret
• Radio Show Host, Hay House Radio
• Health Coach & 21st Cent. Medicine Woman

11. Anita Raj, PHD
• Professor of Medicine & Global Public Health,
UC San Diego
• Founding Director, Center on Gender Equity &
Health at UC San Diego
• Global/national research published in150+ peer-
reviewed journals, including Lancet, JAMA

12. Michelle Ciccarelli Lerach
• Founder, BerryGoodFood.org,
BerryGoodNight.com
• Lawyer, sustainable food & farm advocate
• Opened first 3 Star Green Certified organic
bakery in CA

13. Jennifer Gilmore
• Exec. Dir., Kitchen’s for Good;
Former Exec. Dir., Feeding America
• Board Member, San Diego Hunger Coalition
• 2013 TWIN Visionary Award

14. Allie Tarantino
• Creator, “Waste Not SD” at Specialty Produce
• Former Outreach Coordinator, O'Malley
Creadon Productions documentary film co.
• Pastry Chef

15. Sarah Boltwala-Mesina, MBA
• Founder & Exec. Dir., Inika Small Earth
• Project Mgr., Food2Soil, co-operative effort
between local restaurants & community gardens
• Masters in Natural Resources, VA Tech’s Center
for Leadership in Global Sustainability

16. Chris Young
• Founder, Closing the Loop
• Owner, Recon Recycling
• Integrated, zero-waste recycling solutions for
homes and businesses to produce animal feed,
energy, and raw materials for manufacturing.

17. Noel Stehly
• Co-Owner Stehly Farms Organics, Stehly
Farms Market & Stehly Ranch
• 3rd gen. CA farmer, and 2nd gen. San Diegan
• Former President, SD Farm Bureau

18. Kevin G. Davis
• Principal, GreenCore Capital
• Clean technology investor and pioneer
• Advisor, ECOR & Envision Solar

19. #BGFFfoodwaste
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20. Land used to
grow wasted
food = Mexico
Calories produced
never consumed
Average US
family spends on
wasted food

21. Global Food Loss

22. US Food Waste

23. is recovered
36 million tons
food waste to landfills
US Food Wasted

24. Food/Organics in SD Landfill
FOOD: 15%
2012 Waste Composition Study

25. awayproject.org

27. reducing food waste
by 1/4 would feed
all of the hungry
people in the world

30. Food Loss/Waste Stages

31. Food Waste: Retail vs. Consumer

35. Food Waste: 3rd Largest GHG Emitter

41. Mandatory Organics Recycling
Requires businesses, apartments and
schools to recycle organic waste
AB 1826

42. culinary job training students
and graduates prepare
produce into healthy meals1.
social and financial
returns directed to the
community through jobs for
graduates and revenue
reinvested in programs
2.
healthy meals
provided to hunger
relief agencies, senior
centers, schools and
commercial outlets
3.4.
reducing food
waste by rescuing
and purchasing
surplus and ‘ugly’
produce from
local farmers and
wholesalers