Energy

• NRDC: Energy Efficient Home Makeover

• NRDC: Energy Issues

• International Energy Agency Executive Summary

• Eversource: Energy Saving Information

• New England’s Winter Electricity Challenges Call for a Clean Energy Solution

 

Food Waste

• EPA Reducing Food Waste at Home

• EPA United States 2030 Food Loss and Waste Reduction Goal

• FDA Food Loss and Waste​​

• EPA Sustainable Management of Food​

• USDA's Food Waste Activities

• FDA How to Cut Food Waste and Maintain Food Safety

• FDA Tips To Reduce Food Waste

• FDA Confused by Date Labels on Packaged Foods?

• FDA Are You Storing Your Food Safely?

• FDA Food Waste Animated Videos

• FDA Food Facts Brochure

• Save The Food and the GUEST-ANIMATOR App

• Food Safety.gov - FoodKeeper app

• Essex Food Scrap Recycling Guide (Does and Don'ts)

• UC San Diego Correctly store fruits and vegetables to reduce food waste

• ASKUSDA's searchable site makes it easy to find information

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Food Scraps and Composting

• CT/DEEP/Composting & Organics Recycling

• EPA Composting at Home

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Recycling Links

• CBS Saturday Morning Video Recycling of packaging and the need for “Extended Producer Responsibility”

• How2recycle - Recycling Plastic Wrap Store-Drop-Off​

• Brochure: Recycling Bags & Film Packaging 

• Recyclect: A Guide to Recycling- WHAT'S IN WHAT'S OUT​

• Do's & Don'ts of Film & Curbside Recycling

• Video: Recycling & Contamination

• CT/DEEP/Reduce Reuse Recycle

• Recyclect: Interactive Can I Recycle It? Wizard

• Video University of California "Takeout creates a lot of trash"

• The Single-Use Plastic Problem

• For Restaurants:

  • Restaurant's Guide To Reducing Plastics

  • Reusable Food Serviceware Guide

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Sustainable CT​

• SustainableCT Website​

• Southbury Awarded SustainableCT Bronze Certification June 2022

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Southbury Town Website​

• Southbury Town Home Page

  • CT Resources for Homelessness

  • Public Works Department/Recycling/ Transfer Station​

  • Southbury's Sustainable CT Articles

  • Transportation Choices in Southbury

Presentations

• What You May Not Know About Food Shopping and Food Waste

  • Food Storage demos of Guestimator & FoodKeeper Apps

  • Food Tips from SaveTheFood.com and StopFoodWaste.org

  • Links To Apps/Tools Used In Food Waste Presentation​

• Food Scraps Roadshow event at Heritage Village​

  • Slide Deck​

• Energy Efficiency 101 Webinar

Climate Change​

• Climate Science Center

• NASA Scientific Consensus: Earth's Climate Is Warming

• Yale Wildfires and climate change: What’s the connection?

• NASA The Causes of Climate Change

• NASA Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Projections Right

• Yale Global warming is real, so why is it cold outside?

• NASA The Carbon Cycle

• NASA The scientific method and climate change: How scientists know

• Yale A brief introduction to climate change and sea-level rise

• Yale More CO2 in the atmosphere hurts key plants and crops more than it helps