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## Food Waste Intelligence

## [Leanpath receives high sustainability impact ranking](https://blog.leanpath.com/foodtech-500-ranking)

Posted By [Steven M. Finn](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/steven-m-finn) on Feb 10, 2020

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Forward Fooding has released its inaugural FoodTech 500 list – a ranking of the top global AgriFoodTech startups “at the intersection of food, technology, and sustainability” – patterned after the Fortune 500 listing. Leanpath was pleased to be ranked #16 – the highest ranking for a food waste solution – in recognition of the positive impact that we have on making the food system more sustainable by driving food waste prevention at scale.

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## [A decade of action: 10 years to halve global food waste](https://blog.leanpath.com/decade-of-action-10-years-to-halve-global-food-waste)

Posted By [Steven M. Finn](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/steven-m-finn) on Jan 21, 2020

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The new year is a time when we reflect on lessons learned and set new goals with renewed energy and focus. These themes seem particularly relevant as we enter 2020 – the beginning of a decade of action for hitting the UN Sustainable Development Goals – and, specifically, for hitting Target 12.3, that audacious goal of cutting global food waste in half by 2030. A goal that, if achieved, will directly benefit many of the other 16 Sustainable Development Goals due to the central nature of food in our lives and the many linkages between f...

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## [New Climate Report: Urgent Change Needed](https://blog.leanpath.com/new-climate-report-urgent-change-needed)

Posted By [Steven M. Finn](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/steven-m-finn) on Oct 10, 2018

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The world received a major wake-up call this week with the release of the Global Warming of 1.5°CReport from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which reports that severe impacts of global warming will happen much sooner than ever imagined.

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## [Change at Changeover Time](https://blog.leanpath.com/change-at-changeover-time)

Posted By [Steven M. Finn](https://blog.leanpath.com/author/steven-m-finn) on Feb 26, 2016

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Editor's Note: The following is a guest article by Steven M. Finn, Managing Director of ResponsEcology, a sustainability and change management consulting firm helping organizations to reduce waste and drive transformational culture change with triple bottom line impact. Last week, while headed to a conference on food security in China, I experienced one of those moments that are so powerful to those of us involved in reducing food waste — and that in my case seem to occur with increasing frequency.

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