Your Carbon “FoodPrint”

This fun, easy-to-use calculator starts with an easy question, “Do you eat food?” Then it gets more specific about which foods you eat, and what you do with leftovers. In the end, you’ll have a better understanding of how what you eat affects the climate. (Note: The third question starts with, “If there’s room on my plate …”. Use your cursor to slide the red dot along the scale. Some test-takers find this confusing).

Meet the Forkrangers, who developed this deceptively simple, informative compass that will point you in the right direction on how to eat more sustainably. Within a minute you’ll learn simple food swaps that can make a big impact on the planet.

Use this handy guide to learn the carbon footprint of popular foods. Print out the chart and tack it onto your fridge. The planet will thank you.

Which protein sources have the highest and lowest carbon footprints? The answer is here.

Channel your inner geek, and use this science-y calculator to learn how much energy and water are used to grow different types of meat. From beef to chicken, the numbers are eye-opening.

Burger chain intentionally decreases sales of beef burgers and becomes climate-positive restaurant.

Supermarket chain increases sales of plant-based options when it moves them to the meat section.

Growing chickens produces fewer greenhouse gases than beef. That’s a good thing. But as Americans have cut down on eating beef, their consumption of poultry has sky-rocketed. And so has the water pollution created by all of those chickens.