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Apr 2018

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The Hidden Cost of Hamburgers

The Center for Investigative Reporting presents the hidden environmental costs of meat consumption and animal products. The video presents comparisons between transportation-related emissions and emissions associated with livestock, while making suggestions for individual and community level behavior change.

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Apr 2018

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Climate change campaigners welcome China’s plan to halve meat consumption

Climate change campaigners have welcomed new guidelines which urge Chinese consumers to eat 50 per cent less meat, even though food experts say enticing the country’s growing urban middle classes away from beef and pork will be a huge challenge.

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Apr 2018

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Guide to a Climate-Friendly Diet

Did you know you can help reduce climate change simply by changing some of your eating habits? The American foodsystem is responsible for a lot of the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases we produce overall. This means that the meals we eat have a big impact on our climate. Since we all eat, this […]

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Apr 2018

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Feed yourself more healthfully and protect the planet at the same time

The Maine chapter of the nonprofit Physicians for Social Responsibility is joining other health care professionals around the world in focusing its attention on the public health risks of climate change. Rather than talk about the spread of mosquito-borne viruses or the impact of giant hurricanes, the group is using food as a way to ...

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Apr 2018

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Climate Change and Forestry

Forests are vital economic and cultural resources for many American Indian and Alaska Native tribes in the United States. Of the 18 million acres of tribal forest lands held in trust, 5.7 million acres are designated for commercial forestry. Climate change has the potential to both compromise the health of forests across the country, ...

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Apr 2018

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We Care

Factsheet about living in a climate conscious way from San Louis Obispo’s local health department

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Apr 2018

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Preventive medicine expert advocates a plant-based diet

In a letter to JAMA, the preventive-medicine expert addresses the failure of the newest USDA Dietary Guidelines to articulate the health and climate benefits of a low-meat diet.Eating meat is bad for our health and bad for our planet, according to Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research ...

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Apr 2018

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What’s Food Loss and Waste Got to Do with Sustainable Development? A Lot, Actually.

More than 150 world leaders will meet in New York this weekend to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of global targets intended to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and curb climate change. The SDGs will help set the global development agenda for the next 15 years, focusing attention on the […]

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Apr 2018

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Diet and Climate Change: Cooking up a Storm

While epidemics of chronic disease are currently by far the leading causes of death, climate change is considered the greatest public health threat. This video explains how people can eat to combat dietary diseases and greenhouse gas emissions at the same time.

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Apr 2018

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Healthy and Climate Friendly Food

We care about healthy living in San Luis Obispo County. That is why we are concerned about climate change. Now is the time to come together as a community and talk about how climate change is affecting our well-being. The good news is, many actions that help limit climate change also improve the health of […]

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