10/31/2026
Last night, six REA interns showed Petaluma what they learned this summer about where our food goes, from seed to harvest to table to …landfill?! After screening their film, they presented six solutions and ran a Q&A that became a community conversation, with audience members jumping in to share their own expertise.
Their ideas for next steps: stickers that recognize certified Green Businesses, better signage so people know where food scraps go, short training videos, a campaign to promote apps that sell surplus food, kid-friendly signs for schools, and a food waste singalong for elementary students.
Adding a twist to election season, students created a fundraiser where donors voted for their favorite solutions with $10 votes. The room got their solutions almost halfway funded, and now we’re hoping you will get them the rest of the way there.
Thank you to Zero Waste Sonoma and Petaluma Bounty for your support and expertise from start to finish, to Blue Zones Petaluma for hosting our event and helping implement the grant, to our teen mentor extraordinaire Claudia, to everyone who showed up to be filmed or watch the outcome, and of course to our interns!
A huge thank you to Amy’s Roofing and Solar, who donated $1,000 last night to keep this program going.
We’re accepting donations through Election Day for this project. No matter what happens that day, we’ll have good news to share about our next steps. The more you give, the more teen-initiated solutions we can put into action to keep food out of landfills.
Link to donate in bio.
