Climate-Friendly Diets

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• We have vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian options for climate change-conscious cooks.

  

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  Our Best Recipes for Climate-Friendly Cooking

  The New York Times - Mark Josephson

  So, you’re concerned about the environment and interested in changing your diet. That is an important first step. As Julia Moskin and Brad Plumer reported, “the world’s food system is responsible for about one-quarter of the planet-warming greenhouse gases that humans generate each year.” To help …

• How to shop, cook and eat in a warming world.

  

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  Your Questions About Food and Climate Change, Answered

  The New York Times - Julia Moskin

  Big Picture Which foods have the largest impact on climate change? Meat and dairy, particularly from cows, have an outsize impact, with livestock accounting for around 14.5 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases each year. That’s roughly the same amount as the emissions from all the cars, trucks, …

• See how your food choices compare with those of other Americans.

  

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  Quiz: How Does Your Diet Contribute to Climate Change?

  The New York Times - Nadja Popovich

  On any day, those meal choices would likely land you among Americans whose food-related climate impacts are: Your climate-impact category is based on research from Tulane University and the University of Michigan that examined greenhouse gas emissions associated with food choices made by more than …

• Like other small farmers and researchers, Brad Gates is trying to ensure a future for the tomato by breeding hardier varieties and persuading more Americans to grow their own.

  

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  Reinventing the Tomato for Survival in a Changing World

  The New York Times - Tejal Rao

  NAPA, Calif. — In a borrowed van, Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms sped south on Interstate 680 with hundreds of fuzzy tomato seedlings bumping around in the back, their trembling leaves, warmed by the sun, filling the cab with the smell of summer. It was one of a half-dozen deliveries on his to-do …

• If you’re not ready to cook with kelp but are interested in trying a bite or two, here are some prepared seaweed products worth seeking out.

  

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  Seaweed Products to Sample

  The New York Times - Melissa Clark

  Seaweed Butter A compound butter that combines seaweed, cultured butter and sea salt, this is wonderful melted over boiled potatoes, stirred into pasta or rice, dolloped over roasted vegetables, chicken and especially seafood. I love it smeared on warm bread and topped with smoked salmon. Bordier …

• Eating well doesn’t have to mean eating weirdly, or depriving ourselves, or even breaking the bank.

  

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  These Five Cuisines Are Easier on the Planet

  The New York Times - Somini Sengupta

  Can I eat well without wrecking the planet? As a climate reporter and personal chef to a growing, ravenous child, I think about this question a lot. Is there a cuisine somewhere in the world that is healthy both for us and for the planet we live on? And if one exists, would we even want to eat …