We’re un-inventing waste.
In nature, waste doesn’t exist — everything is food for life. At Fera Zero, we hold a deep respect for ecology, and the resolve to restore and protect it. We are in awe of the intelligence of nature, and we dare to (re)design a world where humans are stewards, not destroyers, of it. We are here to leverage our advances in technology and the power of storytelling to expedite a great reversal of the disappointing and avoidable facts below:
40% of American food is thrown away— a loss of 60 Billion pounds of nutrients to landfills, while our farmlands erode at a rate of 1.7 Billion Tons a year from nutrient depriving industrial farming methods, threatening the food security of all Americans.
25% of U.S. methane emissions come from food in landfills.
$218 Billion in resources, time and labor is spent each year growing, transporting and throwing away food that is never eaten.
Soil erosion is 2x as bad today as during the Dust Bowl. We are literally running out of soil to farm on because we aren’t returning nutrients (from food scraps) to it.
The good news is, we can reverse ALL of this, and the solutions have already been invented, perfected over billions of years, and are widely available open-source ;). It’s the technology that is nature’s own living system, and the work of our time is to reconnect and steward it, not keep interrupting the cycle of life.
Fera Zero works to summon the societal awareness, will and resources to redesign human systems in service of life and restore ecosystems.
