Articles & Websites

Articles

Many of us want to take meaningful action to help the planet, and we can! Almost without exception, eating a local and mostly plant-based diet tops the lists of actions that individuals can take to make a positive impact on the environment.

These articles help explain why your food choices matter in a changing climate:

• Food Revolution Network: “What You Eat Can Impact Climate Change! See 9 Foods that Harm the Planet and 11 Foods that Can Help Save It” – “Which foods are the most damaging to the planet? And which foods could help save it? Check out the current state of climate change and see what research says about the impact of certain foods.”
• FoodPrint: “UN Climate Change Report Wanting to Make You Cut Meat?” – “One suggestion in the report — one that’s not dependent on government or big business to listen up and make real change — is for us all to eat less meat.”
• Green That Life: “How to Fight Climate Change With Climate-Friendly Food Choices” – “When it comes to food, the carbon footprint for certain food products is sizable, and overall food production is responsible for approximately one-quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions.”

Websites

Check out some of the lists from these organizations, which highlight the importance of moving toward a plant-based diet (and might give you some other great ideas!): The Grantham Institute, David Suzuki Foundation, BBC Future, Reset Digital for Good, Quartz, The Years Project, and GreenAmerica.org.

Dig into these to get more of a taste for how your food choices can make an environmental difference:

• Forks Over Knives: How Does Following a Vegan Diet Help the Environment: “Adopting a
  whole-food, plant-based diet isn’t just good for your health: It’s also one of the best things you can do for the environment.”
• Project Drawdown Plant-Rich Diets: “Plant-rich diets hold enormous potential for climate change
  mitigation if adopted on a global scale. They also tend to be healthier than animal-rich diets. A plant-rich diet  can be adopted incrementally with small behavioral changes that together lead to globally significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.”
• Gaples Institute: “You care about the planet, and you might already reduce, re-use, and recycle. But what you eat could have the biggest impact of all.”
• PlantStrong: “We envision a world that universally understands, promotes and prescribes plants as the solution to empowering health, enhancing performance, and restoring the environment. ”
• Climate Healers: “Animal agriculture is the leading cause of climate change. It is not sustainable or acceptable any more.”