Natural Disasters Can Happen Fast. Are You Prepared?

by | Sep 13, 2025 | Home

View an excellent fact sheet from EPA on how to prepare your family and your home for emergencies and share with your community. Topics include wildfires, floods, extreme heat and power outages, and preparing an emergency family supply kit.

Feed It Onward: Turning Food Waste into Opportunity

by | Sep 13, 2025 | Home

EPA’s new initiative, Feed It Onward, is designed to reduce food waste and strengthen food security across America. Food waste has become the largest component of materials reaching U.S. landfills, more than any other type of trash, while millions of families across...

Reducing Food Waste: Too Good to Go Educational Handbooks

by | Aug 29, 2025 | Home

To Good to Go has released two handbooks on food waste basics and food waste reduction techniques for use at home and in the classroom: What in the World is Food Waste and How to Avoid Food Waste. The handbooks include activities for groups ages 6-11 and 9-11....

Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Compost Toolkit

by | Aug 29, 2025 | Home

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s new Soil and Soul Healing Toolkit: Compose Issuecan help communities affected by wildfires and other sources of pollution to safely assess and remediate contaminated compost and soil. The toolkit introduces contaminants that may...

EPA’s Air Quality Flag Program

by | Aug 29, 2025 | Home

Has your Tribe considered participating in EPA’s Air Quality Flag program? Each day, you raise a flag that corresponds to how clean or polluted the air is, raising awareness about air quality for everyone in the community. The color of the flag matches...

EPA Guide to Preventing Illegal Dumping

by | Aug 29, 2025 | Home

Illegal dumping can threaten public health, safety, property values, and quality of life. EPA recently updated its Illegal Dumping Prevention Guidebook, which outlines actions communities can take to prevent illegal dumping. The guide includes case studies from around...