Diet and the environment

In this section, I describe the relationships between the human diet and the natural environment in terms of climate change or toxics, among other topics.

Don’t waste my thyme!

Tuesday, 23 January 2018 / Published in Diet & Environment
Ideas to reduce food waste
40 Clever Ideas to Avoid Food Waste at Home Do you know the amount of food wasted internationally each year is sufficient to provide for the nearly 1bn starved people in the world? Do you know that an average family can waste around 700 pounds of food every year? The problem is that a lot

Food wasted or lost profit opportunity?

Monday, 22 January 2018 / Published in Diet & Environment
Emaciated, hopeless, and living in dire poverty, almost a million people worldwide are silently starving. At the same time, the average westerner enjoys the luxury of discarding tons of overripe fruit on a daily basis. With 45% losses, fruit and vegetables break the infamous record of highest waste rates (Source: Swedish Environmental Authority). Bananas, in