【推荐1】Did you buy too much bread before heading out for a holiday? Did you give up the vegetables that are going bad?

In an effort to help eco-conscious consumers, a Geneva nonprofit is speeding up its plan of street-side, free-access public refrigerators that restaurateurs, at-home cooks and others can use to give away food that’s about to go bad. It’s part of a bigger effort by communities in Switzerland and other European countries to do their part for the environment while helping to cut down on food waste.

The nonprofit Free-Go has placed refrigerators and shelves in Geneva where passersby can get fruit, vegetables, bread and other perishables(易变质食品) to take home for free.The program costs about $40,000 to run each year and enjoys the support from the city government. It began a year ago with a single fridge outside a community center in western Geneva and it now has four fridges, strategically placed around town. A fifth one is planned before year’s end.

Free-Go is experimenting with scheduled pickups at apartment buildings to make it easier for residents(居民) to participate in the program. It has also set up a“hotline”that restaurateurs can use to call for the collection of unused food. Free-Go says giver s of food from the private sector, such as restaurants, must make a promise to ensure the given food is safe to eat.

Free-Go says about 1 billion tons of food go to waste every year around the world—using up energy and other resources in the farming and transportation process. Similar food-sharing activities are in place in the capital, Bern, after the idea was imported from Germany.

According to Foodsharing.de, a community group in Germany that started more than a decade ago, more than a half-million people in Germany, Switzerland and Austria have made “the food-sharing initiative an international movement”and have helped save 83 million tons of food from going to waste.

【推荐2】Russia has a history of beating the U.S. into space, and along with being the first to send a dog, man, and woman into space, they just became the first nation to send an actress and film crew up there.

Scheduled for two weeks of filming aboard the International Space Station (ISS), actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko became the first humans to film part of a full-length film in space, beating out poor old Tom Cruise, who since 2020 had made his intentions to film a movie aboard the ISS clear enough to NASA.

The Challenge will be a big-budget Russian film based on the story of a top surgeon (Peresild) who is called upon to enter the Russian-module of the ISS for an emergency procedure. While many films certainly feature space, it will be the first full-length fiction to be filmed on the ISS.

A Soyuz rocket departed the Earth at 4:55 a.m. on October 5th, and arrived three hours later carrying Ms. Peresild, Mr. Shipenko and their experienced astronautical guide, Anton Shkaplerov. “It is almost impossible to believe that this all came to reality,” said Peresild, opening the hatch (舱门) and floating into the space laboratory. The pair will gather around 35 minutes of footage (画面) before departing on the 17th of October, leaving Shkaplerov behind to work.

In September 2020, it was announced that Cruise and Director Doug Liman had booked a flight on a SpaceX rocket headed for the ISS in October 2021. Ever eager for a space-race, Russian Channel One and a film studio called Yellow, Black, and White jointly announced with the Russian space agency Roscosmos their own plans for a space movie.

While Peresild and Shipenko will be set to come down soon, Cruise’s October launch plans are still up in the air. If Tom Cruise needs a bright side to look on, it’s that the last time Russia and the U.S. had a first-to space race, Russia got into space first, but the U.S. got to the Moon.

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