You wouldn’t think a fine dining experience could be had in a giant dumpster. But if you were at the National Gourmet Institute’s Salvage Supperclub in New York City event a few weeks ago, you would’ve had just that. Josh Treuhaft is a graduate student who’s wanted to make his master’s thesis “Eat Everything: Toward a New Norm in Food Desire” a reality.

The Sustainable Local Food Investment Group or SLoFIG was founded three and a half years ago by a group of people who share an investment philosophy - focusing on the importance of building community wealth through a healthier local food chain. The group’s based in Chicago and Teri Lowinger heads it up.