San Francisco Blog

Wasted Food provides an important look at the consequences of our needless excess in a way that motivates change. Site author Jonathan Bloom is currently winding down and sharing impressions of a two-week visit to the Bay Area from North Carolina, a trip he began by helping S.F. non-profit Food Runners to collect donations from various Slow Food Nation events and continued by studying local conservation efforts. But most sobering of all is the ticker that tracks the approximate pounds of American food wasted in the time since the Web page was loaded, a sinister counter that seems to jump by at least 6000 pounds a second. Something to think about next time the urge to throw away some perfectly good food arises. —Tamara Palmer