Tag: diet


  • What kind of eco-warrior do you want to be?

    It is best to align a strategy of reducing your carbon footprint with your personal goals.  Do you want to improve your finances? Are you concerned about your health? Do you have little time to think about how to reduce your carbon footprint? Is it a priority but not your main priority or are you…

  • Non-ecofriendly reasons to adopt a plant-based diet

    A plant-based diet is the most compatible diet with a Net Zero world. Only diet can sustain  a world population that could grow to 10 billion people in the future. In a plant-based diet, plants make up to at least two thirds of your diet and meat only makes up to one third. Plants do…

  • How cheese lovers can reduce the impact of cheese

    Cheese as a food product produces large amounts of carbon emissions. Most of the emissions in cheese production comes from the burps of cows. The way cows digest food mean that they produce methane, which is a greenhouse gas which contributes to global warming. Climate change scientists, such as Professor Bernes-Lee, argue cheese should be…

  • Where to start with a plant-based diet

    If you are a heavy meat eater, it is hard to know how to switch over to a plant-based diet. A plant-based diet is essential in a Net Zero world as it will halve the carbon emissions from our diet. There are also many benefits to adopting a plant-based diet: you will save up to…

  • Myth-busting: recycling is not the most important thing

    Surveys suggest that people think recycling will make the biggest difference to their carbon footprint. There are countless blogs explaining how to reduce our waste to practically zero. However, the truth is no matter how much effort we put into recycling, it will neve reduce our carbon footprint as much as other actions and we…

  • Health benefits of a plant-based diets

    There are a huge number of reasons to adopt a plant-based diet. Not only is it good for the planet and saves you money, but it also improves your health significantly. This is the diet backed by evidence from research centres around the world, such as the Harvard Medical School, and the verdict of such…

  • Plant based dinners

    Plant based dinners

    Plant-based meals are what we should be eating in a net zero world. If we reduced the amount of meat and dairy we eat, it would reduce deforestation and carbon emissions dramatically. Less land would be required to grow our food because raising animals and feeding them takes up so much land. If everyone switched…

  • Plant based lunches

    Plant based lunches

    What would lunch in a net zero world look like? Plant based lunches contain less meat and dairy and are mostly made up of plants. Meat should only make up a third of the meal at the maximum and should be a garnish to the meal rather than the main thing. Pescatarian, vegetarian and vegan…

  • Plant-based breakfasts

    Plant-based breakfasts

    We should all be eating plant-based breakfasts in a net zero world. But what is a plant-based breakfast like? In some cases, it will be simple substitutions to what you already have, because only dairy products need to be substituted out. In other cases, it will mean being more creative with ingredients. Making your breakfasts…

  • Do the big things first

    The average British person produces 8.4 tonnes of carbon emissions a year. Some of the suggestions to reduce our carbon footprint are unappealing because it requires tens of thousands of pounds of invest, such as buying a heat pump and an electric car or it involves cutting down on things we enjoy doing. There is…