Mobile information about the impact of your specific food choices
Curious about how you can lower your carbon impact with your food choices? Here’s help: our Low Carbon Diet Calculator, found at www.eatlowcarbon.org, is an interactive tool that allows you to determine how your meal is contributing to global warming.
The Low Carbon Diet Calculator works according to a point system, similar in concept to Weight Watchers™. It’s easy to use and designed for eaters ranging from burgers-and-fries fans to farmers’ market aficionados. The point values are based on lifecycle assessment studies from published research gathered by two teams of science advisors. More than 40 peer-reviewed papers were studied.
The calculator allows you to “drag and drop” menu items into your virtual pan. Common favorites for breakfast, lunch and dinner meals are on the menu, along with build-your-own options with vegetables, fruits, meats – even portion sizes and cooking methods can be calculated for a total score. Diners can choose from sample meals, lowering their carbon points to the minimum level possible – while still leaving room for guilty pleasures, as it’s the total of CO2e emissions on your plate that counts.
