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Your Carbon “FoodPrint”
Calculate 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).
Compass for Eating Sustainably
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.
How to Lower Your Food’s Carbon Footprint
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.
Low Emissions Proteins
Which protein sources have the highest and lowest carbon footprints? The answer is here.
Meat Footprint Calculator
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.
Plant-Rich Diets Decrease Greenhouse Gas Emissions
You don’t need to eat 100% plant-based food to decrease your FoodPrint. This Project Drawdown report demonstrates how “plant-rich” diets can reduce demand for animal products, thereby reducing land clearing, fertilizer use, and greenhouse gas emissions.
Reduce Your Climate FoodPrint at Max Burger
Burger chain intentionally decreases sales of beef burgers and becomes climate-positive restaurant.
Supermarket Chain Decreases Beef Sales with Smart Move
Supermarket chain increases sales of plant-based options when it moves them to the meat section.
The Harvard Planetary Health Diet
2024 large-scale study by Harvard School of Public Health demonstrates that diets best for our health are also those that are best for the planet.
Why Swapping Chicken for Beef is Not Good Enough
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.