{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Green Shoots & Big Shifts","title":"40% of Our Food Is Wasted! -- Robert Lee, Rescuing Leftover Cuisine","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1256,"description":"Forty percent of the food produced in the United States gets thrown out, and the nutrition in a third of that waste is enough to end food insecurity. Robert Lee, founder of Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, left a finance job at JP Morgan to close that gap. He grew up as the second son of Korean American parents who struggled with food access, joined a student club at NYU that carried leftover dining hall food to shelters, and built that idea into an organization now rescuing food across all 50 states.\n\nChapters:\n00:00 Welcome and show intro\n01:00 Robert's journey and what inspired RLC\n02:46 What Rescuing Leftover Cuisine does\n03:33 Scaling carefully and sustainable growth\n06:03 Where RLC operates today\n07:00 The scale of food waste\n08:33 A food rescue story that stuck\n10:02 How to donate food and how pickup works\n10:58 Partners, shelters, and a school program\n12:33 Launching the Every Bite app in Boston\n13:33 What's next and making food rescue the standard\n15:35 Advice for starting small and taking action\n17:53 How Robert thinks about impact\n19:53 One word to leave listeners with\n\nLearn more about Rescuing Leftover Cuisine:\n- Website - https://rescuingleftovercuisine.org\n- Download the Evrybite App: https://www.evrybite.com/download-evrybite","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/os_7dE_KkRQ50GOkMh7jP4oefEpoxwWKJoXrlmC5SRw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85YTVj/NjdjYzI2NTEwOTdk/MjdjYzUzNzJmOWVh/OTcwZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}