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Monterey One Water launches program to turn food waste into renewable energy.
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Monterey One Water launches program to turn food waste into renewable energy.

  • Katie Rodriguez
  • Dec 4, 2025

It’s a win-win-win for tackling food waste, creating renewable energy and saving money. 

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  • Dec 4, 2025

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Eating the best food in your fridge doesn’t mean the rest should go to waste.
Eat + Drink

Eating the best food in your fridge doesn’t mean the rest should go to waste.

  • Ari LeVaux
  • Sep 7, 2023

“Always drink your best beer,” says my buddy Chad Harder. “That way you will always be drinking your best beer.”

A recently enacted state law aiming to keep food waste out of landfills presents great challenges, but also a vital opportunity.
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A recently enacted state law aiming to keep food waste out of landfills presents great challenges, but also a vital opportunity.

  • David Schmalz
  • May 4, 2023

IMAGINE BEING IN A CAFE SOMEWHERE IN MONTEREY COUNTY, ordering a coffee and croissant. After receiving both, you sit down at a table to read a…

Pacific Grove may soon declare war on gulls, again.
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Pacific Grove may soon declare war on gulls, again.

  • Ana Ceballos
  • Nov 23, 2016

On a recent afternoon, a small slice of sunlight parts a gloomy sky and lands on Pacific Grove’s downtown district. On this murky day, the hor…

A stale toast antidote comes in clutch to limit food waste around the holidays.
Eat + Drink

A stale toast antidote comes in clutch to limit food waste around the holidays.

  • Ari LeVaux
  • Dec 24, 2015

With Thanksgiving well gone in the rearview mirror, and more holiday fare suddenly upon us, one question looms above all others: what to do wi…

U.S. Department of Education announces Carmel Middle as one of the nation's "Green Ribbon Schools."
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U.S. Department of Education announces Carmel Middle as one of the nation's "Green Ribbon Schools."

  • David Schmalz
  • Apr 22, 2015

It was a special Earth Day for Carmel Middle. 

The Monterey Peninsula has become the epicenter of a student-led movement to reduce waste, for the ocean.
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The Monterey Peninsula has become the epicenter of a student-led movement to reduce waste, for the ocean.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Mar 26, 2015

Anna Munoz is wearing a chunky necklace her students made out of upcycled corks, a touch of gold shadow on the edges of her eyes and an enthus…

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