We’re all capable of slowing down the effects of a warming Earth, and it could be as simple as how we stock our pantries.
We’re all capable of slowing down the effects of a warming Earth, and it could be as simple as how we stock our pantries.
An international team of scientists has evaluated the environmental impacts of more than 57,000 food products – the stuff you typically find as you wander the aisles of your local grocery. If this type of information is made easily available to the public, they say, it could not only enable the transition to a more sustainable food system, but chances are it could also improve people’s health.
“The goal is to have a simpler, and more rigorous quantitative way to inform consumers about the tens of thousands of different items they might buy in a grocery store,” said ecologist David Tilman(link is external), a professor at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, and also at the University of Minnesota’s College of Biological Sciences. Tilman is a co-author of a study(link is external) that appears in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.
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