Event name
ShortTakes (South)
When
Tue 07 / 09 / 2019
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Where
Private Address, please log in to see more
Who can attend
Open to all
Limited Capacity: 30 spots available
Price
FREE
Organizer
Joanne O'Neill
Here’s just a little history. ShortTakes began early in 2016 and we have met each month at Joe and Pam’s house. We have shared many TED talks and similar presentations and many of us have gotten to know each other at a deeper level. This has also helped build a strong south Austin presence for CCV.
We meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 10am-12pm. This month we'll meet at a member home in South Austin.
July's program will be "Food Waste is the World's Dumbest Environmental Problem". If someone asks you to picture where greenhouse gases come from, images of smoggy traffic jams or billowing smokestacks are likely to spring to mind. But your dinner? Probably not so much. Your dinner isn’t simply a delicious, innocent bystander. From the farm to your plate, there’s food waste at every step. And decomposing food isn’t just stinky; it releases potent greenhouse gases, mostly in the form of methane.
Even so, food waste should still be a relatively small issue, except that we needlessly waste food on such a massive scale that it adds up to a global problem. Just under 7 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from food waste worldwide. To put that in perspective, if all the world’s food waste came together and formed a country, it would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, behind China and the US.