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Chocolate

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Recently chocolate has been getting a lot of bad press because climate analysts have started to flag up the enormous and damaging land use changes that cocoa agriculture causes. 70%…

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Published 2024-02-20
Categorised as ActionTagged chocolate, ecotips, food, shopping

UPFs – Ultra-processed Foods

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If something is ultra-processed, it’s going to have a larger carbon footprint, use more water to make, most likely be associated with factory-farmed meat or diary and the pollution, come…

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Published 2023-11-22
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips, food

Diet and CO2 Emissions

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The first of November was World Vegan Day, a reminder that a totally plant-based diet is the everyday reality for about 1% of the world population. Reducing our CO2 emissions…

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Published 2023-11-08
Categorised as ActionTagged ecotips, food, vegan

Pesky Pumpkin Remains

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Halloween sees people the world over getting creative with pumpkin carving and results in tons of wasted pumpkins if people don’t have the means, the time or the oomph to…

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Published 2023-11-01
Categorised as ActionTagged cooking, ecotips, food

How to cook pasta and save energy

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The furore in Italy is a paygrade above the average Brit’s palette, but cooking pasta badly is easily done. Here is a method to cook pasta and save energy and…

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Published 2023-01-11
Categorised as ActionTagged cooking, ecotips, food, pasta

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