"ScrAPES #9- Keeping Foods and the Climate Cool"

Podcast- Living on Earth Podcast, Keeping Foods and the Climate Cool week of January 16, 2015, Start: 00:01 End: 07:28

Topic: Sustainability 

Summary:
     Food produced by farmers are going to waste because of the lack of cooling systems, especially in a developing world. Food waste is creating 3.3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. John Mandyck, the Chief Sustainability Officer of the united Technologies Building & Industrial Systems, developed a new system called a cold chain; refrigerated trucks, trailers. and containers are used to keep food fresh as it is being transported around. His goal is to prevent food loss- keeping the food fresh from the point it is harvested to the point when consumers buy it. The cold chain is designed to keep our food lasting longer and not go to waste; being able to feed the people in todays world and future generations. Plus, a new organization called the Global Food Cold Chain Council is created to make the cold chain green, and to reduce the carbon footprint. The cold chain would be used to solve the problems of food loss and to discuss the issue of climate change. 
     I choose this podcast because I thought it was interesting to read about a new development that is being used to help keep food fresh and the environment healthy. It was also interesting to read that food waste is one of the factors that produce carbon dioxide. The topics in the podcast connects back to the readings on sustainability and food consumption. 
     This podcast is important to environmental science because developing a system that would reduce food waste would help slow down the carbon dioxide that is being produced from it. It can later lead to other developments that pertains to climate change issues. The next step is to spread more awareness in the developed world about the harms of food waste in our environment. To teach them not to buy more then they can consume in order to feed everyone today and future generations.