Why should you focus on your diet first and foremost?
Food is the leading source of emissions of climate-damaging gases (greenhouse gases – GHGs) in our consumption (around 32 per cent of the total), more than domestic heating and transport (cars, aeroplanes). It is also the leading source of pollution that destroys life (around 70 per cent of the total) : the choking of rivers and oceans by green algae, soil degradation, destruction of the ozone layer, and the poisoning of the environment (Source).
You eat three times a day. That’s three opportunities to make a difference, with the greatest positive impact you can have on your own scale. You don’t need anyone else. You can start right now.
Where to start? The guide ‘A more sustainable diet without cooking’, available to download for free
The handbook "A more sustainable diet without cooking" gives you all the practical information you need to start eating more sustainably, without turning your habits upside down, and without cooking. With it, you’ll know how to eat:
- by looking after your health ;
- whilst protecting the climate and living things ;
- by treating yourself ;
- ... whilst keeping your budget in check!
Further reading: the weekly vegetable fact sheets, and the Sustainable Diet Handbook
If you already know how to cook, you can sign up for free to the newsletter "Sustainable Diet".
Every week, you’ll receive a fact sheet on a seasonal vegetable, with practical advice on how to store it, how to prepare it, and quick, easy, cheap and tasty recipes… that help protect the climate and the environment!
To find out more, you can download the other volumes of the Sustainable Diet Handbook for free (or buy them in print or ePub format) (1,000 pages, nearly 700 recipes):
- Key information,
- Practical guides,
- Basic recipes,
- Vegetable fact sheets.
Share your new, more sustainable, healthy and tasty diet with others!
- Every week, I cook with a group of colleagues at work, taking it in turns to prepare one of the recipes shared each week in the ‘Sustainable Diet’ newsletter;
- When you invite friends round, prepare one of the recipes from the Sustainable Diet Handbook and explain why you chose it.
