Tag: carbon footprint
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How you wash your clothes in the washing machine can make a big impact on the carbon emissions you are producing. You can save a quarter of a ton of carbon emissions person and save money with these tips below. Loading the washing machine The easiest way to reduce the carbon footprint of your laundry…
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How can we choose low carbon emitting desserts? Professor Brindle’s book ‘Food and climate change without the hot air’ offers some insights on how we can reduce carbon emissions of popular desserts. Cake Most cakes typically have many dairy products and is a high emissions dessert compared to other options. Cakes contain butter, milk…
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If you love your caffeine fix and can’t live without coffee, how can you choose a coffee which lowers your carbon footprint? Coffee and milk Adding cow’s milk to coffee makes a big difference to a coffee’s carbon footprint because a lot of land is needed for cows to graze and to grow their food.…
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What snacks should you eat if you want to reduce your carbon footprint? Professor Brindle’s book ‘Food and climate change without the hot air’ analyses typical snacks we eat and suggest ways we can make small changes in our snacks to change our footprint. Chocolate Chocolate bars will vary in their carbon emissions depending on…
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To adapt to a net zero world and halve our carbon footprint by 2030, we need to reduce our carbon emissions from food. About a quarter of carbon emissions come our diet. The average person creates 6kg of carbon emissions from what they eat daily. Ideally, we would halve this to 3kg by 2030 to…
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A diet that is suitable for a net zero world is quite different from a typical diet people eat today. Today’s diet is meat rich, with more saturated fat, sugar and salt than we should be consuming. In the UK alone, poor diet accounts for 13% of deaths as it causes diabetes, cancer, high blood…
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Four things to carry with you when going out Recycling plastic is not very effective and the best way to deal with the amount of plastic pollution in the world is to avoid using buying new products that are typically plastic and are for dingle use. One way of refusing plastic is to carry around…
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Beer and wine are the most popular alcoholic drink. In the UK, 68 litres of beer and 11.88 bottles of wine were drunk per person in 2022 in the UK. So how do carbon emissions compare between beer and wine? Research by Bridle (2020) showed beer and wine as a drink have the same carbon…
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Does tea or coffee have more emissions? Tea and coffee are amongst the most popular drinks consumed across the world. Around 2 billion cups of coffee and 5 billion cups of tea are drunk everyday worldwide. They create a carbon footprint through their production. If you are indifferent between drinking either of the drinks, choose…