I recently learned a surprising statistic – approximately 40% of all food produced in America is wasted.  Considering the very real pressures we are facing in the areas of poverty and hunger, food security, energy security and the environmental side...

You don’t need to wait until your kids are old enough for complicated lessons in ecology or environmental engineering to begin to teach them about the environment.  Here are 5 simple, but essential environmental basics that even toddlers can underst...