40%. That’s how much food is wasted in America – 20 pounds per person per month. At the consumer level, we discard about 25% of food purchases uneaten – this is the biggest single “leak” from the system. All this waste, and yet one in six people in the US does not have reliable, nutritious […]
67.4 quadrillion BTU’s. This is the total amount of energy waste in the US – a whopping 62% of all that’s produced each year. Before you jump in to comment, a note that this is really neat data – newly compiled at energy literacy.com by MacArthur genius award-winner Saul Griffith and his team at Otherlab. Huge […]