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Lindsey Loberg Boulder Food Rescue Lindsey@boulderfoodrescue.org

Where We’re Coming From

Where We’re Coming From More than 50 million people in this country were food insecure. (That’s 1 in 6.) (Right now it’s more 42 million, or closer 1 in 7.)

Where We’re Coming From 10% of our national energy budget is used for food production

Where We’re Coming From 50% of our land area is used for food production

Where We’re Coming From 80% of our freshwater is used for food production

Where We’re Coming From More than 40% of the food produced in the US is wasted

Where We’re Coming From !?

Where We’re Coming From

Where We’re Coming From

What We’re Working On Over 2.3 million lbs. of food redistributed!

What We’re Working On 85% Bike-Powered

Where We’re Working On ç 150 Active Volunteers

What We’re Working On Average 12 Pick-ups a day, 1500 lbs of food per day, 15 donors, 40 Recipient Organizations

Where We’re Going We are becoming a national operation.

What We’re Working On We are forming more effective collaborations with food donors and other food redistribution and waste diversion agencies.

What We’re Working On We work with people to design their own food redistribution programs. We are constantly working to make our systems more participatory and based in participant feedback.

Where We’re Going We’ve been working on Community Based Research to better understand food access and how people want to be more involved in their own systems of food access.

Get Involved Volunteer: – Bike food around Boulder – Fundraise – Outreach – Graphic Design

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