How sustainable is your weekly grocery shop? These small changes can have big benefits
5 months ago

How sustainable is your weekly grocery shop? These small changes can have big benefits

Salon  

You might think eating more sustainably requires drastic changes, such as shifting to a vegan diet. We assessed how food products on Australian supermarket shelves stack up against key environmental indicators, such as carbon emissions and water use. Most studies of environmental footprints focus on the raw ingredients that make up food products rather than the packaged products people see on shelves. We aligned environmental footprints with the products people find on supermarket shelves, and covered a huge range of food and beverage products available in Australia. From this, we estimated the environmental footprint of 63,926 food products available in Australian supermarkets.

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Diners choose more eco-friendly meals when the carbon footprint of each dish is printed on the menu
2 years, 7 months ago

Diners choose more eco-friendly meals when the carbon footprint of each dish is printed on the menu

Daily Mail  

Whether it's switching to LED light bulbs or choosing to walk to work, many of us are already doing things to help limit our carbon emissions. The researchers found that diners choose more eco-friendly meals when the carbon footprint of each dish is printed on the menu. 'The design of restaurant menus has a considerable effect on the carbon footprint …

Calculate the environmental footprint of your food
3 years, 11 months ago

Calculate the environmental footprint of your food

BBC  

Calculate the environmental footprint of your food Getty Images Unravelling how the food you eat affects the environment can be tricky, which is why BBC Future has created a Foodprint Calculator to reveal how different choices change the impact you have. The entire food system – which includes the production, packaging, transportation and disposal of everything we eat – accounts …

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