Eating for the Planet: The Food, Health, & Climate Connection
Connecting the dots between food, health, and climate with Eco-RD, Mary Purdy, MS, RDN. This module will address the role that the current industrial food and agricultural system is playing in the climate crisis. It will outline the specific ways that the food system affects the climate, environment and human health including addressing issues of racial inequities and environmental justice. Participants will also learn how more eco-friendly farming methods and dietary patterns can serve as solutions, strategies and reasons for hope.
Check out the pre-reading under SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS to prepare for our first session!
OBJECTIVES
- Outline how food, climate, and human health influence one another
- Describe key global targets and regional nuance that optimize food, climate, and health
- Acknowledge prior/existing cultures where these concepts originated
PRE-READING
- Kowalsky TO, Morilla Romero de la Osa R, Cerrillo I. Sustainable Diets as Tools to Harmonize the Health of Individuals, Communities and the Planet: A Systematic Review. Nutrients. 2022; 14(5):928.
- Mejía NV, Reyes RP, Martinez Y, Carrasco O, Cerritos R. Implications of the Western diet for agricultural production, health and climate change Front. Sustain. Food Syst., 20 December 2018 l
POST-WEBINAR ACTIVITY (OPTIONAL)
Choose a “Foodprint Calculator” tool from below, calculate and evaluate the carbon footprint for a few commonly consumed foods or a meal. Please share with your fellow colleagues in the Slack channel. What surprised you? Confused you?
- https://myemissions.green/food-carbon-footprint-calculator/
- https://www.earthday.org/foodprints-calculators/ (There are a number of options at this link)
- https://harvard-foodprint-calculator.github.io/
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
- Crippa M, et al. Food Systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions. Nature Food. 2021;2(3):198-209
- Halpern, B.S., Frazier, M., Verstaen, J. et al. The environmental footprint of global food production. Nat Sustain (2022).
- FInd many more resources here
Supplemental Materials
About the Instructor