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Explore How You Use Fuel with Our Newest Initiative

July 22, 2020

Fuel is at the core of our modern society. It brings electricity to our homes and businesses and helps many of us get from Point A to Point B in the cars we drive. But fuel doesn’t just power and mobilize us — it plays a part in nearly every decision we make and action we take. It plays a role in the foods we eat, the places we visit, and the products we buy.

To help us understand fuel’s role in society and to explore the impact of our habits and decisions, we’re proud to showcase our newest interactive initiative: How Do You Fuel.

Does This Tiny Island Off the Coast of Maine Hold the Answer to the Future of Electricity?

July 19, 2020

Living on an island forces one to be an innovator in ways large and small. For the 50 or so year-round residents of Isle au Haut, an island off the coast of Maine, innovation can look like using PVC pipe as a curtain rod because there are no real curtain rods at hand — or it can look like the future of the nation’s electrical grid.

The 6-mile-long by 2-mile-wide (10-kilometer-long by 3-kilometer-wide) island has been facing disruption of its electricity supply. So the islanders, as they do every day, got creative — and in the process integrated technology that’s been available for decades with emerging innovations to create what could be a renewable energy model for the rest of the U.S. and perhaps the world.

ReFED's COVID-19 Solutions Fund is Helping Organizations Rescue More Than 50 Million Pounds of Food

June 23, 2020

By now we’ve all read about or seen the toll COVID-19 has taken on the U.S. economy, and our nation’s food system in particular. Millions of gallons of milk being poured down the drain. Vegetables left to rot in fields. Meat facility closures lead to significant amounts of wasted poultry and pork. The challenges the food industry faces due to the coronavirus are significant, and organizations across the nation have scrambled to rescue food intended for restaurants, corporations and other businesses that would otherwise go to waste.

Back in May, our partners at ReFED — a national nonprofit dedicated to advancing solutions to food waste — announced their COVID-19 Food Waste Solutions Fund, an initiative to fund organizations fighting the most immediate food waste needs during the crisis by rescuing food and providing it to hunger relief organizations and communities in need.

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