Diet for a Hot Planet

Diet and Climate Change

Essential Questions:

• What is the standard American diet?

• What are the links between our diet and health?

• What are the links between our diet and climate change?

• How will my diet need to change to be climate friendly?

• What resources are available to inform me about changing my diet?

• What are the obstacles to a healthy diet change?

Rick’s Rap

Gathering: “A question that I have about my diet and climate change is…”

Speaker:  Dorothy Greet, "Plant Based Nutrition"

Exercise: ‘The 4Leaf Survey” http://4leafsurvey.com/

           

Video:  “ Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret,” produced by Leonrad DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson, Appian Way Productions, 2015 www.cowspiracy.com

            • debrief

           

Closing: “Something that I learned today was...”

Reading:

 • Dr. Richard Oppenlander,”Comfortably Unaware,”Beaufort Books, New York ,2012 pp.9-13

Resources 
• Climate Change Calculator, BBC News Link tom BBC article

• James Hamblin, "What is everybody ate beans instead of beef?, Atlantic, 8/2/17

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/if-everyone-ate-beans-instead-of-beef/535536/?utm_source=feed
• Bruce Monger, "Impact of Food Choices on the Environment," April 22, 2015 http://nutritionstudies.org/impact-of-food-choices-on-the-environment/

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.                                                Francis Moore Lappe