Books by Dana Gunders

Dana is a project scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and leads NRDCs work on reducing food waste. Her 2012 report, Wasted: How American is Losing up to 40% of its Food from Farm to Fork went viral and sparked a global conversation about food waste. She blogs regularly for CNN Eatocracy, NPR, Grist, Ecocentris, and GOOD magazine, and has a chapter in an upcoming textbook by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. After her Waste study was published, she built relationships as both an interviewee and contributor with new, old-guard, and green media, such as: Reuters, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Grist, etc. As a researcher, shes connected within the food retail industry to Safeway, Whole Foods, Walmart, Wegmans, and the Food Marketing Institute. Dana has a B.S. and M.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University.