Put down your hamburgers! This week we are tucking into the topic of sustainable diets, looking at the many, many environmental impacts of the food industry and finding out why many of us are moving to vegan, vegetarian or flexitarian diets.
We’re looking at the future of food security in a growing world, the carbon emissions and water demands of different food-producing practices, nifty new farming and agriculture technologies, and whether or not that all means we all have to turn 100% vegan.
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Things we chat about:
The Water Calculator: https://www.watercalculator.org/
Pineapples: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46070037
Vertical farming: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/14/world-largest-vertical-farm-newark-green-revolution
BBC calculator/comparison tool for food and drink: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46459714
What to eat more/less of/consider: https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/five-foods-that-could-save-the-planet-and-five-more-that-definitely-wont/
The Conspiracy documentary: http://www.cowspiracy.com/
Fiber and our immune systems: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1038/cti.2016.29
Lancet Planetary Health paper: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(18)30174-8/fulltext
The Green Roasting Tin cookbook: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Roasting-Tin-Vegetarian-Dinners/dp/1910931896
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Theme music and sound mixed by Mark Skinner.
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62: Soil: Essential and… Sexy?
61: Eco(ish) Home Renovation & Redecoration
60: Slash Your Carbon Footprint with a Green Pension, with Make My Money Matter
59: Space tourism: bad news for terra firma?
58: Cryptocurrency! Is Bitcoin burning the planet?
57: Trees! With Joe Middleton from Woodland Trust
56: Carbon Storage
55: Renewables with Juliet Davenport, CEO of Good Energy
54: Starting a Sustainable and Ethical Business, with James from Animall Tea
53: Chris Jones from Cornwall Beaver Project
52: How to grow your own food
51: PETS! Can they be sustainable? Feat. Ryan Dalton
50: Tea and Coffee
49: Anthropogenic Noise! (Human sound pollution)
48: BOGS! Nature‘s best carbon capture habitats.
47: Air Pollution: What are we breathing in?
46: Tom Carroll: Saving the rainforest with TikTok, 3D printng coral reefs, and offshore wind farms
45: Merry Christmas-is-a-bit-cancelled bonus Q&A!
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