Stories

Below are stories that touch on topics we care about at the Brass Tacks Initiative.

Food Waste: Why should you care?

You may be asking isn’t food just organic material that breaks down and creates more soil? Shouldn’t we focus more of our attention on reducing pollution, plastics, or oil consumption?Β The short answer is that by addressing food waste we will ultimately be addressing all of those things.Β This is because the impacts of food waste are […]
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Veteran Food Insecurity

All of us at BTI are grateful to those who served and we want to say thank you by bringing awareness to a problem affecting Veterans that is easily remedied – food insecurity. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, between 2015 and 2019 one in ten working-age veterans lived in food-insecure households. This a […]
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