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The National Portrait Gallery has opened an exhibition on Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Saturday on Nov. 12, 2022.)

Community composting is growing across the country but problems arise as cities lag behind in regulations and zoning laws.

Every election we're told that each vote counts. Ryan Roth, the newly-elected city council member for Rainier, Wash., is now proof that it does.

In other news, a weird monolith showed up outside Las Vegas, a star athlete was disappointed and a celebrity had a tough week.

Construction is one of the world's dirtiest industries and creates more than 600 million tons of trash in the U.S. every year.

Construction is one of the world's dirtiest industries and creates more than 600 million tons of trash in the U.S. every year.

In an effort to transform edibles from trash to treasure, innovative mixologists are using bruised strawberries, cucumber peels and citrus rinds to make unique, socially-conscious craft cocktails.

Two years ago, France introduced a law to force supermarkets to donate unsold food to charities and food banks. Skeptics called it unworkable at the time, but there are signs the effort is succeeding.

Halloween pumpkins are nutritious and perfectly edible — if they haven't been carved and left outside for days. And yet we throw almost all of them away. Here's what happened when we cooked with one.

New rules in California require the composting of food scraps and yard cuttings. Commercial composting facilities are gearing up to cash in as they turn food scraps into fertilizer and other products.