Tag: green living
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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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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…