Which Foods Have the Lowest Carbon Footprint?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2020-11-16

How much greenhouse gas does the production of different foods cause measured in miles driven or lightbulb hour equivalents? The impact of our diets on the climate crisis.

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This is the 2nd in a 3-video series. If you missed the first one, check out Win-Win Dietary Solutions to the Climate Crisis (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/win-win-dietary-solutions-to-the-climate-crisis). Stay tuned for Which Diets Have the Lowest Carbon Footprint? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/which-diets-have-the-lowest-carbon-footprint).

I also have an older video Diet & Climate Change: Cooking Up a Storm (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/diet-and-climate-change-cooking-up-a-storm/) and a digital download on using plant-based or cultivated meat as a climate (and pandemic) mitigation strategy: https://drgreger.org/collections/videos/products/plant-based-and-cultivated-meat-digital. 

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