Dana Gunders is my guest on Episode 96 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.
Dana is a national expert on food systems and was one of the first people to raise the alarm about how much food is wasted across the country and the subsequent impacts on the environment, food security, and the economy. Dana has served as ReFED’s Executive Director since March 2020, and she has a long history with the organization having served as a founding board member when ReFED was established in 2016.
For almost a decade prior to her work with ReFED, Dana was a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), where she authored the landmark Wasted report about food waste and testified before Congress. While at NRDC, Dana launched the "Save The Food" campaign with the Ad Council to provide consumers with easy-to-use strategies to reduce food waste in their own kitchens. She then started Next Course LLC to strategically advise organizations, including Google, and authored the popular Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook.
Dana has made a number of appearances in the media, including "PBS NewsHour," "Last Week Tonight" with John Oliver, and FOX Business, and she was called “the woman who helped start the waste-free movement” by Consumer Reports.
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00:00 - Roadmap to waste-free food systems
00:40 - Introduction Inside Ideas guest Dana Gunders on Episode 96 with Marc Buckley
03:25 - Food and the pandemic
04:25 - The book Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook
05:10 - How have you weathered this crazy time?
06:36 - Insights and resilience
14:10 - The average Supermarket in the US
15:18 - Frozen food
16:17 - Tips on frozen food in Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook
19:44 - It’s how we produce
20:42 - Food waste
21:58 - Food for everyone
24:12 - 45 harvest left
25:09 - ReFED’s mission
28:40 - ReFED’s insights data on food waste
30:56 - Too good to go app https://toogoodtogo.com/en-us
32:00 - Greenhouse footprint
34:30 - Policy perspective a climate solution
37:16 - ReFED Insight Engine; 42 Solutions
41:34 - Robert Egger D.C. Central Kitchen on Inside Ideas Ep.83
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O655z9B8zl8
42:00 - Dr. Katie Martin Reinventing Food banks on Inside Ideas Ep.81
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwPE7f8CJY
45:11 - Cost of food
46:45 - Food banking in the US
49:05 - ReFED’s work and projects
53:30 - Portion control
54:45 - Roadmap to 2030
1:04:50 - The burning question, WTF What’s the Future?
1:05:43 - Online food shopping
1:08:55 - Thoughts on microwave
1:16:04 - UN Food System Summit 2021
1:20:27 - Sustainable Takeaway
1:21:45 - What should young innovators in your field think about?
1:22:29 - What I wished I knew from the start
