RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #23 14.08 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 $72.2 BILLION NET COST $1.34 TRILLION NET SAVINGS Around the world, farmers are walking away from lands that were once cultivated or grazed because those lands have been “farmed out.” Agricultural practices depleted fertility, eroded soil, caused compaction, drained groundwater, or created salinity by over-irrigation.... Continue Reading →
PLANT-RICH DIET
RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #4 66.11 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 GLOBAL COST AND SAVINGS DATA TOO VARIABLE TO BE DETERMINED. The Buddha, Confucius, and Pythagoras, Leonardo da Vinci and Leo Tolstoy. Gandhi and Guadi. Percy Bysshe Shelly and George Bernard Shaw. Plant-based diets have had no shortage of notable champions, long before omnivore Michael Pollan... Continue Reading →
FOOD
Think of the causes of global warming, and fossil fuel energy probably comes to mind. Less conspicuous are the consequences of breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The food system is elaborate and complex; its requirements and impacts are extraordinary. Fossil fuels power tractors, fishing vessels, transport, processing, chemicals, packaging materials, refrigeration, supermarkets, and kitchens. Chemical fertilizers... Continue Reading →
Meat Trends, Climate Change & Global Food Security – Dawn Moncrief
An examination of the long-standing trend of increasing global consumption of animal products and the relationship to climate change and global food security. Highlights include: disparities in national consumption, leadership responses, inherent gender and racial biases, advanced understanding of the livestock-climate percentages and feed conversion ratios, and thoughts on the possible impact of cultured "clean"... Continue Reading →
climate victory gardens from green america…
Climate change is the most pressing issue of our time. Carbon dioxide levels have risen above 400ppm and there is an urgent call to sequester carbon and bring that number down to the pre-industrial level of 350ppm. Yet, it often seems like there isn’t much that can be done on an individual level to stop it. Sure,... Continue Reading →
Eat what’s in season. When you choose to eat with the seasons, you’re automatically choosing local food, which boosts the local economy, cuts down on greenhouse gas emissions, and provides a host of benefits for your body. Eating with the season will also help you eat mindfully! – Michelle Neff, Excerpt from her book: SIMPLE ACTS TO... Continue Reading →
eat mindfully…
Go vegan or vegetarian. Raising animals for food is taking an enormous toll on our planet’s resources. The global livestock system accounts for a staggering 23 percent of global freshwater consumption and 45 percent of total land use. If that wasn’t enough, the animal agriculture industry is one of the largest drivers of deforestation and... Continue Reading →
swapping foods you love…
Wean yourself off palm oil. Up to 300 football fields of forest are cleared every single hour to make from for palm plantations. As a result, the orangutan population has decreased by 50 percent in just the past ten years due to habitat loss. Palm oil is commonly found in processed foods, such as cookies,... Continue Reading →
due to habitat loss…
most toxic substances find a home in the bodies of the world’s poor
We eat hamburgers made from beef gazed on lands cleared from tropical forests that once contained vast amounts of carbon. When those forests are burned, that carbon is released into the atmosphere as CO2. In addition, the animals destined for our hamburgers produce huge amounts of methane, which is twenty-three times more powerful than... Continue Reading →
you need not be dependent on specialists…
You begin to see that growing even a little of your own food is, as Wendell Berry pointed out thirty years ago, one of those solutions that, instead of begetting a new set of problems—the way “solutions” like ethanol or nuclear power inevitable do—actually beget other solutions, and not only of the kind that save... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 