Found this great article today about the different we can make to the environment just by eating more plant based meals.
Eat a ‘flexitarian’ diet to help stop climate change
” Whether or not there are tropical islands in 50 years might depend on whether or not we can eat fewer hamburgers.
It may feel like an individual can’t do too much to make a contribution. But fortunately, changing your diet is something everybody can do. Based on the report’s findings, we can drastically cut emissions and pollution if we switch to “flexitarianism.”
Flexitarianism is just a flexible form of vegetarianism. You don’t have to give up meat, you just have to follow the last part of Michael Pollan’s advice: For the most part, eat plants. If that doesn’t seem feasible, we can still mostly eat meat so long as we take more care in what kind of meat we eat.”