Dining with Discretion

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Today’s Talk

Climate Change, SLC and the Household Footprint

Following the Food System

Psychology of Personal and Consumer Choice

Food Polices and Programs

Open Discussion / Q&A

Today’s Talk






Today’s Talk






Today’s Talk






Today’s Talk






Source: NOAA National Climate Assessment

Source: The Best Picture Project

Local Climate Change….

Photo: Ryan Jacobs

Source: ClimateCentral.org

Source: ClimateCentral.org

Source: National Climatic Data Center / NOAA





Community Footprint

Source: Salt Lake City Community Carbon Inventory

UT Household Footprint

Home Energy 34%

Transport 41%

Dietary Choices 25%

81,807 Lbs CO2 Annually3.07 People / Utah Household

81,807 Lbs CO2 Annually

Home Energy

27,876 - 34%

Dietary Choices

20,737 - 25%

Transportation

33,194 - 41%

Average Utah Household

Vegetarian 3 Days / Week 3,555 lbs

One Less RT Flight / Year 2,166 lbs

Caulking + Weatherstripping 800 lbs

Install 5 CFLs 500 lbs

Furnace Tune-up 300 lbs

ENERGY STAR Furnace 2,400 lbs

Eliminate Vampire (VCR + Stereo) 272 lbs

Cold Water Wash (All Clothes) 1,269 lbs

No Personal Vehicle 1 Day / Week 3,406 lbs

Footprint Reductions

Footprint Reductions

81,807 Lbs CO2 Annually

Home Energy

27,876 - 34%

Dietary Choices

20,737 - 25%

Transportation

33,194 - 41%

Average Utah Household

Buying 100% of food locally

Replacing red meat and dairy with chicken, fish, and eggs

Replacing red meat and dairy with vegetables and vegetable-based products

4,998 lbs

8,295 lbs

933 lbs

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Lifecycle

Lifecycle Impacts

Copyright © Environmental Working Group (2012)

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• Agriculture accounts for 19-30% of anthropogenic (human caused)greenhouse gas emissions

GHG Emissions

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2014)

Other Impacts

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/firemaps/

Other Impacts

Mark Kegans for The New York TimesAbout 2.7 million bushels of corn is piled 60 feet high on the ground beside full elevators at an agricultural coop in Ralston, Iowa

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Other Impacts

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Food Choice Trends

In terms of your eating preferences, do you consider yourself to be vegetarian, or not?Among U.S. Adults

Yes % No %

July 2012 5 94

July 2001 6 94

Sept 1999 6 94Source: Gallup

Food Choice Trends

Source: Humane Research Council, 2014

Food Choice Trends


Food Choice Trends


Food Choice Trends


Unleash the Beast

Source: Beyond Meat

Unleash the Beast

Photo: Misha Gravenor, Outside Magazine

Unleash the Beast

The BEAST #nofilter

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Policy

Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas. Dust bowl surveying in Texas

Policy

Policy

Norman Borlaug, Nobel Prize biologist dubbed as the father of the green revolution, surrounded by agricultural trainees. Photograph: CIMMYT/Flickr

http://www.wired.com/2012/06/arsenic-pesticides-in-our-food/

Food Pyramid

1940 1954 1984

“Current evidence shows that the average U.S. diet has a larger environmental impact in terms of increased [greenhouse gas] emissions, land use, water use, and energy use. This is because the current U.S. population intake of animal-based foods is higher and plant-based foods are lower.”

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Take Action!

Source: Meat Eaters Guide to Climate Change + Health

Take Action!


Take Action!


Take Action!

Take Action!


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