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Calculate your ecological footprint
Calculate your ecological footprint
Answer a few questions to get an understanding of how your lifestyle affects the planet, this can also help you figure out how some specific changes could have a larger impact.
Food waste at the consumer levels
Food waste at the consumer levels
A great percentage of food waste occurs at the consumer levels, due to poor buying habits and wasteful use of food, at an individual level. We have control over our actions and habits and we need to change them.
Purchasing Products
Purchasing Products
One large contribution to our ecological footprint is how often we buy products, Above is a graph describing the CO2 emitted to import the products that are bought in the U.S. Importation of goods cant be stopped of course, but it's worth keeping in mind when deciding whether or not to buy something you don't need, that may need to be imported.
Meat Consumption
Meat Consumption
Meat, as an industry has a huge impact on greenhouse gas emissions, the button above provides great visuals to help understand the greenhouse gas contributions
Not only is meat a large greenhouse gas contributor, but it also takes up a large portion of crop yield, according to Cornell University, the U.S could feed 800 million people with the food used to feed livestock:
Sources:
Global Footprint Network. (2019). How many planets does it take to sustain your lifestyle? Footprintcalculator.org. https://www.footprintcalculator.org/
Food Waste and Consumer-Level Solutions. (n.d.). Earth.org - Past | Present | Future. Retrieved April 19, 2021, from https://earth.org/data_visualization/food-waste-and-consumer-level-solutions/
How do CO2 emissions compare when we adjust for trade? (n.d.). Our World in Data. https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
Goodman, D. D., Tom Prater and Joe. (2020, September 14). Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy? Url. https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/what-is-the-climate-impact-of-eating-meat-and-dairy/
U.S. could feed 800 million people with grain that livestock eat, Cornell ecologist advises animal scientists | Cornell Chronicle. (2015). Cornell Chronicle. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-million-people-grain-livestock-eat
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