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“Community Fridges” Address Hunger, Climate Change, and Human Dignity [1]

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Date: 2023-10-28  

Copying link from Mother Jones, which does not have a paywall.

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

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When I started reading this I immediately wondered how they’re getting power. Turns out some are solar powered. All, as the article notes, reduce methane emissions from landfills. Read and enjoy. And get motivated to take your own actions...

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Dan Zauderer and his in-laws had eaten plenty of pizza one evening in early October, and they still had seven slices left. What to do? “Well, we could just chuck it,” Zauderer thought. Instead, he and his fiancée wrapped the slices in plastic wrap, slapped labels on them with the date, and walked the leftovers a little more than a block down the road to a refrigerator standing along 92nd Avenue in New York City’s Upper East Side.

That fridge is one among many “community fridges” across the country that volunteers stock with free food—prepared meals, leftovers, and you name it. Zauderer had helped set a network up in New York City during the pandemic as a way to reduce waste and fight hunger. The idea came about when he was a middle school teacher looking to provide short-term help to students whose families couldn’t afford food. He stationed the first fridge in the Bronx in September 2020. That one, the Mott Haven Fridge, was hugely popular, and it motivated Zauderer to expand. Since then, he has helped plug in seven more fridges in the Bronx and Manhattan, including the one where he dropped off his leftover pizza.

“It just blossomed into way more than I ever could have expected,” said Zauderer, who now works full-time at Grassroots Grocery, a food-distribution nonprofit he co-founded in New York.

“The whole point is dignified, anonymous access.

We’re not the arbiters of how much to take.”

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