Today’s food and energy crisis has been a topic of much debate. Amidst the huge investments in technology surrounding various solution suggestions, a call to approach the crisis from a simple perspective is not a call to be lackadaisical. In addressing waste control and population control, society stands an immediate chance at improved standards of living by implementing these minor changes on a large scale. Cutting down on bills and placing less demand on natural resources are the immediate results that will roll over to longer term benefits.