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		<title>Hobart Sustainability Grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hobart Center for Foodservice Sustainability recently announced that it is once again accepting applications for its annual foodservice sustainability grant program. The $5000 grant is awarded to the individual, company or organization judged to have the best-executed foodservice or food retail sustainability project of the year.
To learn more and to access the official application, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merchant Credit Card Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com/blog/merchant-credit-card-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE (3-1-10): The day I uploaded this post Barney Frank Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee announced that they will not pursue interchange reform legislation in 2010. I guess we&#8217;ll have to wait another year&#8230;or ten.
Now that the new credit card legislation has gone into effect for consumers, I’m wondering when retailers are going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Kitchen Innovation Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com/blog/2010-kitchen-innovation-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equipment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Cleaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[heat recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Restaurant Association released its annual Kitchen Innovation awards last week, and not surprising the list is dominated with green innovations offering everything from green cleaners to energy efficiency. Not all the items are necessarily new to the market or new technology, but it appears that the commercial kitchen manufacturers have caught on that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reusable Takeout</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com/blog/reusable-takeout/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com/blog/reusable-takeout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Packaging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Waste Reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restaurants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Calgary man named K.B. Lee recently launched an interesting website called TakeOutWithout.com. The site is creating a campaign to encourage diners and restaurants alike to reduce the amount of packaging they use in when ordering takeout.
TOWO asks people to reduce the amount of unnecessary packaging they take when getting takeout (think a stack of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Seafood</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com/blog/sustainable-seafood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com/blog/sustainable-seafood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seafood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable seafood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are honored to have Rich Boot, founder and CEO of FishChoice.com as a guest blogger this week. Fishchoice.com connects commercial seafood buyers with sustainable seafood suppliers. Rich offers some insight into serving sustainable seafood.
Is it the seller’s or the buyer’s responsibility? Actually both. Consumers need to ask where the fish they are buying comes from and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Composting in Restaurants</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com/blog/composting-in-restaurants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com/blog/composting-in-restaurants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste Reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[composting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food waste]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently posted a couple articles about food waste in the news section of sustainablefoodservice.com. One was on the regulation of food waste, and the other about a restaurant group that has installed an on-site composting machine called the eCorect. I don’t normally post articles about specific restaurants going green, but this one brought up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food Waste Calculator</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com/blog/food-waste-calculator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com/blog/food-waste-calculator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recycling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[calculators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food waste]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The EPA recently released a new food cost calculator that estimates the financial savings of source reduction, donation, and composting of food, and recycling of yellow grease. The calculator takes user input such as food costs and amounts of waste (so you will need some in-house data) and calculates savings and environmental benefits based on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biodegradable Packaging: Sustainable?</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com/blog/biodegradable-packaging-sustainable-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com/blog/biodegradable-packaging-sustainable-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve spoken with several people recently about the variety of biodegradable foodservice products on the market right now. Just a couple years ago there were just a small handful of relatively unobtainable products, but today the market is flooded with biodegradable packaging of every kind including the elusive biodegradable hot cup lid.
Choice is great, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Recycle</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com/blog/13-things-you-didn%e2%80%99t-know-you-could-recycle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com/blog/13-things-you-didn%e2%80%99t-know-you-could-recycle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste Reduction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Almost everything can be recycled. It is just a matter of whether there is a market for that recycled material, and if someone is collecting it. Outside of curbside recycling of glass, cardboard, metal and plastic, there are a number of things that can be recycled or reused in some way.
1. Plastic film
Clean plastic wrap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Sustainability Trends</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com/blog/restaurant-sustainability-trends/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sustainablefoodservice.com/blog/restaurant-sustainability-trends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restaurants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sustainability is in, finally. The 2010 “What’s Hot” forecast is out from the National Restaurant Association and sustainability dominated the top trends.
I don’t really like the word “trend” for sustainability because I think resource conscious operations is a sensible, long-term business practice, and not a trend. However, the forecast is for “What’s Hot,” and some [...]]]></description>
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