On this week's episode of Wild Card, musician Casey Musgraves explains how she's tried to slow down time.

I'm kind of drinking each day, each moment in, and I'm trying to not like wish myself to the next whatever is on the horizon. I'm Rachel Martin.

Join us for NPR's Wild Card Podcast, the show where cards control the conversation.

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Hey everybody, it's Mariel.

It's Climate Solutions Week here at NPR across the network you'll hear stories and

conversations about the search for climate solutions and the future of our food and

this week of stories isn't just about covering the climate.

It's meant to remind us that we can always do something about climate change.

Which I know seems daunting.

But want to know something you can do that really will make a difference?

Reduce your food waste.

When I first heard that we could help fight climate change by reducing food waste, I was shocked.

That's Catherine Miller, former vice president of Impact

at the James Beard Foundation.

She's also the author of At the Table,

the Chef's Guide to Advocacy.

Turns out, 30 to 40 percent of the food supply

in America ends up as waste.

Right now we waste 40% of the food that's produced in the United States and a lot of that

food actually goes into landfills. And in the landfill all the food that that's bagged up, it can't get the oxygen it needs to fully decompose.

So instead of decomposing, it rots and releases methane, a greenhouse gas that in the short term is way more potent than carbon dioxide.

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