The environment
Food and Climate Change without the hot air
Change your diet: the easiest way to help save the planet
by S L Bridle
Description
A quarter of the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause climate change come from food. Sarah Bridle details the carbon footprint of the food we eat, from breakfast to lunch, from snacks to supper. She breaks down the environmental impact of each food, so we can see where the emissions are highest. With this knowledge, we can make changes to our diet, reduce the greenhouse gas emissions so damaging to our planet and probably be healthier, too.
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Endorsements
No kitchen should be without this engaging, carefully researched and practical guide to the carbon in our food.
- Prof Mike Berners-Lee, Author of 'How Bad are Bananas' and 'There is no planet B'
This is a wonderful, fact-filled but readable book, full of clear explanations of the emissions associated with everything we eat, identifying what is important and what is negligible. I shall never look at spaghetti bolognese in the same way again.
- Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
Sarah Bridle cuts through much of the confusion and complexity around the climate-change consequences of what we eat to provide a clear guide of how changes to diets can contribute to a more sustainable world.
- Prof Sir Charles Godfray, Director of the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Author Biography
Sarah Bridle is a professor at Manchester University. She became committed to a change in food policy because of her children and her concern for their future.
In 2017, Sarah founded the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Food Network+, bringing together food research and industry. Sarah led the Take a Bite out of Climate Change exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in 2019 and leads the Greenhouse Gas and Dietary choices Open source Toolkit (GGDOT) which brings together data from food choices and greenhouse gas emissions to inform the public and policy makers. Sarah is author of over 100 refereed publications which have over 9000 citations and has won prestigious awards in the UK and Europe including a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, the Royal Astronomical Society’s Fowler Award, and European Research Council Starting and Consolidator Grants.
She divides her research time between food-related climate change and astrophysics.
UIT Cambridge Ltd / Green Books
We publish non-fiction books under two imprints, UIT and Green Books. UIT Cambridge is best known for its bestselling 'without the hot air' series, making important science and sustainability topics accessible - like 'Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air' and 'Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air'. We also have a new series on contemporary art - 'the city through the eyes of its artists' - including 'The Cambridge Art Book' and 'The Dublin Art Book'. Green Books is well known for titles on environmental topics and practical sustainability like organic no-dig gardening and permaculture, sustainable building, ecology and climate change, forest schools, self-sufficiency, spirituality, mind, body & spirit, eco-philosophy and eco-activism. Examples include 'Creating a Forest Garden', 'Organic Gardening', 'Building with Hempcrete' and 'Living on One Acre or Less'.
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- Publisher UIT Cambridge
- Publication Date September 2020
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780857845030
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 19.99 GBP
- Pages256
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Edition1
- Copyright Year2020
- Page size233 x 188 mm
- Serieswithout the hot air
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