A recipe for cutting food waste | Peter Lehner | TEDxManhattan

According to a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Americans are tossing up to 40 percent of the food supply each year, along with all the resources used to produce food that never gets eaten. Food waste occurs at home, on the farm, and in supermarkets.

In this TED Talk, NRDC's executive director Peter Lehner explores the low-tech, tried-and-true solutions proven to reduce food waste and save money for consumers and businesses alike. It's essential that we start putting more of these solutions into action.

Find out what we can do to get the most out of our food system at:
http://www.nrdc.org/food
http://www.nrdc.org/food/wasted-food.asp
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/dgunders/

Peter Lehner is the Executive Director of NRDC and NRDC Action Fund. NRDC, one the nation's leading environmental advocacy organizations with over 1.3 million members and activists and 430 staff in seven offices, works to protect people's health and families, communities, jobs, and wild spaces by accelerating clean and efficient energy, transportation and protecting our oceans, waters and homes from pollution. He is responsible for guiding NRDC's policy positions, advocacy strategies, communications plans, development and administration, and managing NRDC's seven offices and for leading the Action Fund's political activities. Since Peter's return to NRDC in 2006, NRDC has opened new offices in Beijing and Chicago, started the Center for Market Innovation, and expanded both its policy and communications capacity. Previously, Peter served as chief of the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney General's office for eight years. He supervised all environmental litigation by the state, prosecuting a wide variety of polluters and developing innovative multi-state strategies targeting global warming, acid rain, and smog causing emissions. Peter previously served at NRDC as a senior attorney in charge of the water program. Before that, he created and led the environmental prosecution unit for New York City. Peter holds an AB in philosophy and mathematics from Harvard College and is a graduate of Columbia University Law School, where he continues to teach environmental law. He also has extensive experience in sustainable farming and green business.

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