YOU CAN SAVE THE WORLD with what you eat.
It sounds like a lofty statement. The looming environmental crisis feels too big for one person to make a difference. A 5.4° F (3 °C) increase in average global temperatures “would unleash a cascade of catastrophic consequences,” warns the latest United Nations report. The stakes are high, yet it seems the international response by decision-makers in corporate boardrooms and legislative bodies is business as usual. So what can you do? You can impact tremendous change in your home kitchen. Nothing comes close to altering the landscape and bodies of water on every continent on a mass scale than food production.
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The global food system accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions and takes 70 percent of all freshwater. “Destruction of ecosystems and habitats will threaten our ability to sustain human populations unless we change how we produce food,” according to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). If we don’t make fundamental changes as a global community, food production alone will add a 1.7 °F (1 °C) increase in warming by 2100.
KITCHEN ACTIVISM acknowledges the home kitchen is ground zero for saving the planet. You can be a climate/environmental activist in FOUR STEPS:
The four steps of Kitchen Activism transform the daily journey to the kitchen from serving a purpose to giving us purpose. We are empowered to contribute to the solution daily with small actions, which, when merged, will surge into a force for change.
Keep scrolling for free resources to help kickstart your kitchen activism.
KITCHEN ACTIVISM:
MEAL PLANNING & SHOPPING LIST
Kitchen Activist Meal Planning Challenge
MEAL PLANNING automatically helps the home cook reduce food waste, save money, and lifts that dread when the question arises: What will I make for dinner?
Your FOOD SHOPPING offers the opportunity to support and grow food cultivation practices that work to repair the planet. The Kitchen Activist Meal Plan gives you a framework to make a difference with your food purchases starting NOW.
KITCHEN ACTIVISM:
KITCHEN ORGANIZATION
Transform Your Fridge: Declutter Now!
43% of all food waste occurs in the home kitchen. An organized refrigerator is a potent antidote. Are your condiments taking over your refrigerator? This simple guide will help you check if you are unnecessarily refrigerating condiments. Remove condiment clutter and gain precious space in your refrigerator. Organizing the fridge is CLIMATE ACTION!
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The Kitchen Activist Podcast
The Kitchen Activist podcast is for anyone concerned about our environment and wants to live more sustainably but is short on either time, money, ideas…or all three. Florencia Ramirez, author of Eat Less Water, shares bite-sized action steps anyone can implement in their kitchen.
Why the kitchen? The average person eats between 500 and 1300 gallons of virtual water daily, and food is the third largest emitter of Greenhouse Gas emissions. Our food is the best place to turn our hope for a better environment into action.
80 episodes have been recorded and are available anywhere you listen to podcasts.
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