Category: Diet
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11.3 Diet: Vegetarian/Vegan
Author: Alaa Abd-El-Aatty ABSTRACT: Food’s carbon footprint is the production of greenhouses gas from growing, harvesting, manufacturing, transporting, storing, cooking as well as disposing of food. Avoiding meat and dairy products (becoming vegetarian or vegan) is one of the biggest ways to reduce environmental impact and help fight climate change. MAIN Our diet-related environmental burdens…
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11.6 Diet: Do Small Fridges Make Good Cites?
In 2007, Architect Donald Chong developed a concept called, “Small Fridges Make Better Cities,” and it essentially proposed that if we could shop locally more often, use smaller fridges, and walk to the store instead of drive. By Madeleine Jung-Grennan
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11.5 Diet: Cold Chain Distribution
Author: Atifa Nasiri ABSTRACT: Diet Cold chain distribution is a system of temperature-controlled supply chain management transporting and distributing refrigerated products. Which delivery and storage the cold chain product in a designated area. For example, temperature control, supply chain atmosphere, including department stores, pharmaceutical and chemical industries, manage and transport lifesaving products and other products.…
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11.4 Diet: Local Food
Author: Alexandra Kent ABSTRACT: Eating locally is seen as a sustainable option when buying and consuming your food. While this is true in many ways, there are other factors to consider when trying to create as little negative effects on the environment as possible. MAIN One of the arguments on the side of local food…
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11.1 Diet: Meat
Author: Guocheng (Sam) Huang ABSTRACT: Meat consumption has increased globally, to meet the food security, the meat production will need more land to produce feed-crop and convert nature to farmland. Nevertheless, the production accounts for 14.5 % GHC emission which is challenging the Paris Agreement to keep under 2 degrees Celsius by 2050. MAIN Meat…
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11.6 Diet: Environment and Urban Sustainability
In 2007, Architect Donald Chong developed a concept called, “Small Fridges Make Better Cities,” and it essentially proposed that if we could shop locally more often, use smaller fridges, and walk to the store instead of drive, it would open up our neighbourhoods to less traffic and more lively and connected communities. By Madeleine Jung-Grennan
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11.2 Diet: Alternatives to Meat – Faux Meat
The faux meat industry is receiving traction throughout recent years because there is an increase in consumers considering healthy diets, there is the concern about rising meat prices, an increase in the popularity of vegetarianism, and there has been proficient research that’s done on meat alternatives in comparison to the consumption of red meat. By…
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11.8 Diet: Alcohol (Beer)
The production stages of beer heavily contribute to its carbon footprint. By Kristelle Yau
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11.7 Diet: Food Waste
Food waste or food loss is defined as food that is not eaten, food that is thrown away but perfectly fine to eat, food left to spoil or sit past its expiration date, food that is not eaten through the production process to the final consumer, or food scraps that are unavoidable. By Joey Chu
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