If anyone knows how to Replate, it’s this remarkable leader. Mother, entrepreneur, minister and activist, Mama Shu hails from Detroit, Michigan, where she’s spent the past decade rebuilding her neighborhood in Highland Park.
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As COVID-19 continues to exacerbate and illuminate systemic inequities, we’re seeing more clearly than ever how increased unemployment quickly leads to greater food insecurity. But our national hunger crisis didn’t start with the pandemic. 35.2 million people lived in food-insecure households in 2019, and that’s the lowest number we’ve seen in eight years.
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We often villainize carbon dioxide, thinking of it as the enemy in our fight against climate change. But in doing so, we forget the essential role it plays in our ecosystem. Plants need CO2 to photosynthesize, and almost all other organisms depend on the energy from this process to live. If you look at anything living or once living—from a tree branch, to a celery stalk, to your own body—you are looking at something that is storing lots of carbon.
Pete Ternes, one of the owners of Middlebrow Beer Co. in Chicago, ran his business with an eye toward social justice well before the start of COVID-19. Now that the heart of his work—gathering community around craft beer and good food—is physically inoperable, he’s doubled down on his mission to create a restaurant that nourishes the people who grow and prepare its food as much as it nourishes its customers.
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Originally this was intended to be a profile of a stellar small business doing meaningful work and the woman behind it all - and that it still is, but now it is also a call for you to support those businesses in your community that need your patronage now more than ever as we contend with the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic
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It’s no secret that the world is uncharted territory right now. Replate has been hard at work to ensure the continued fulfillment of two top priorities:
Continue to provide food to the clients of our recipient organizations.
Continue to utilize our fee-for-service model to pay our contracted Food Rescuers fair, living wages.
There is so much that we can all do right now to support others in our community. Working with Replate during this time allows you to have three powerful impacts: you’re keeping our food rescuers wages intact, you’re supporting local restaurants, and you’re providing meals for the most vulnerable among us.
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Recycling: it’s the answer to all of our waste problems…right? While the push for recycling in recent decades has been rampant, the industry of recycling has had major struggles with the resale market (or lack thereof), consumer behavior, and where to go next.
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What is composting and why should we do it? The invisible menace of the food we waste is what happens when it gets to landfill.
Read MoreSueli Shaw leads Social Impact at DoorDash, the nation’s leading on-demand food platform founded in 2013. Project DASH is a strong logistical partner of Replate, so we wanted to speak with the woman behind it all about her connection to food, and how she ended up spearheading community initiatives for DoorDash.
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As 2019 winds down to a close, we find ourselves reflecting on all of the growth and change Replate has been through in our almost four years of operations. We’ve gone from one man with a cart to contracted Food Rescuers in cities all over North America.
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Chef Nick Balla wasn’t even introduced to the concept of food waste until his first job in the restaurant industry. Since then he’s spent his career trying to work waste out of restaurant culture and practices.
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Not only does soil support so much life under the ground, but also all of our life above ground by growing and enriching our food. Its health is crucial to our planet’s health, to our health, to the future viability of life in all its splendid forms. And this life force is disappearing.
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We spoke with Laura Hackney, CTO and Cofounder of AnnieCannons, about what led her to start the organization, why she loves the work that she does, and how food donations support their programming.
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The importance and power of using food aid to evoke identity, dignity, and respect.
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