2023 Food Waste Solutions Summit
May 16-18, 2023 | St.Louis, MO
Elaine Fiore
Environmental Educator and Founder
Food Conservation Alliance
Bio:
Elaine Fiore is an environmental educator for Broward County Public Schools in South Florida and leads the Food Conservation Alliance which spearheads Food Waste Prevention Week.
In three years, under Elaine’s direction, Food Waste Prevention Week evolved from a state-based initiative into a national campaign planned by a team of leaders within the food reduction movement from across the country. The campaign is a multipronged effort to engage everyone to reduce food waste at home, work and in our communities.
Prior to this large-scale nationwide event, Elaine spent the past five years creating a Food Recovery Program for Broward County Schools, and then expanding the program to schools throughout the state. She has spoken to an array of audiences at conferences, webinars and workshops to raise awareness and lead others to begin programs. Ms. Fiore’s unique ability to bring together government agencies, municipalities, non-profits and the private sector to collaborate on a common mission have been key to the success of both initiatives.
Schedule
Tuesday, May 16th
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Pre-Summit Events: Out of Thyme | Food Waste Trivia
Session 1
Make lemons out of lemonade by testing your food waste knowledge at Trivia Night! Squeeze the moment, join a team, and do your best to answer questions about food waste solutions and impacts, ReFED, and our host city of St. Louis - prizes will be awarded. We'll be hosting two 30-minute game rounds, starting at 4:00pm and 5:00pm. There's no thyme to waste - so let's have fun!
Tuesday, May 16th
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Pre-Summit Events: Out of Thyme | Food Waste Trivia
Session 2
Make lemons out of lemonade by testing your food waste knowledge at Trivia Night! Squeeze the moment, join a team, and do your best to answer questions about food waste solutions and impacts, ReFED, and our host city of St. Louis - prizes will be awarded. We'll be hosting two 30-minute game rounds, starting at 4:00pm and 5:00pm. There's no thyme to waste - so let's have fun!
Thursday, May 18th
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Insights from the Cafeteria: Food Waste in Schools and Strategies to Reduce It
Breakout Session (Running Concurrently)
Schools provide an ideal learning environment to teach better food conservation habits to the next generation. Most importantly, increasing consumption and reducing wasted food means children receive optimal nutritional benefits from school meals. How can we instruct and instill better habits from the halls of the classroom to the cafeteria? This session will cover how a combination of strategies and interventions — like marketing healthy choices, providing nutrition education, and offering cooking and gardening programs for students — effectively work in unison to increase student consumption.
Ongoing Creative Sessions
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Beauty in the Bin: An Art Showcase through the Eyes of Future Leaders
Presented by Food Waste Prevention Week K-12 Student Art Contest
Engaging our youth in Food Waste Prevention Week has been a high priority. From teacher workshops and shared curriculum to hackathons and campus engagement, students play a role in solving the food waste challenge. Designed in an effort to engage K-12 students in the conversation around reducing food waste and raising awareness, hundreds of students have entered the Food Waste Prevention Week K-12 Student Art Contest over the past 2 years.
The contest creates the space for children to connect with ideas and thoughts for reducing food waste, have time to internalize their ideas, then bring them to light through their different mediums.
Past theme’s have been focused on the connection between Saving Food and Saving Money, as well as Tips and ways to reduce food waste at home. This year’s contest answers the question, “How Does Reducing Food Waste Protect the Planet?”Our food waste community can also participate by volunteering to judge online entries. If you are open to spending 10-15 minutes judging the art, kindly email Elaine Fiore at [email protected].