Vanguard Renewables announced as a 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards Finalist
World Changing Ideas Awards 2021 recognizes companies that have achieved incredible impact and have been in business between 5 and 14 years
Starbucks
Starbucks joined the Farm Powered Strategic Alliance as a founding member, repurposing food waste in Starbucks supply chain into renewable energy via farm-based anaerobic digesters. The process produces low carbon fertilizer that host farms use to support regenerative agriculture practices, while Starbucks, in turn, helps contribute to a low carbon economy.
Dairy Farmers of America
Joining the Farm Powered Strategic Alliance (FPSA) provides DFA with a waste diversion strategy and negative carbon renewable energy pathway that aligns with their science-based goals and provides process efficiencies to DFA plants. DFA intends to recycle manufacturing waste at Farm Powered anaerobic digesters nationwide.
Unilever
Joining the Farm Powered Strategic Alliance (FPSA) provides Unilever with circular solution to achieve its waste and decarbonization goals. Unilever has sent zero non-hazardous waste to landfill from its factories since 2014. That journey started in 2010 and was reached six years ahead of the company’s 2020 deadline across its global network of factories.
A Vanguard for growth
Working directly with food manufacturers and other organic waste producers from across the food and beverage spectrum, Vanguard Renewable’s projects have placed an emphasis on recycling organic waste that would have previously ended up in a landfill.
Oklahoma farms to benefit from plan to harness renewable natural gas
Tulsa-based One Gas has entered into a partnership to develop and expand on potentials for tapping farm-based renewable natural gas as an energy option. The partnership with Vanguard Renewables will focus on projects in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas, the companies said in a release. It will be Vanguard Renewables’ first mid-continent alliance with a local natural gas distribution company.
How Whole Foods creates a second chance for would-be food waste
Whole Foods Market Inc. follows a strong food waste strategy to prevent and divert food from entering landfill, mirroring what is proposed in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Food Recovery Hierarchy. According to Whole Foods, each store’s team members are thoroughly trained on food waste efficiency, from smart ordering to food donation best practices.
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Stonyfield Organic Takes on Climate Advocacy & Farm-level Emissions
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Sustainable Solutions
By partnering with family farms and the food and beverage industries, the anaerobic digestion facilities at Goodrich Family Farm repurpose unavoidable food waste into value for people and the planet. Building these farm-powered facilities on farms leverages the amazing synergies that exist between food waste recycling and regenerative agriculture practices.