On a topic so rich with information , it’s important that we each continue our own research! Here are some great sources to get started with to inspire your 2020 Earth Day action:
Documentaries
- Before the Flood with Leonardo DiCaprio
- Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
- Food Exposed with Nelufar Hedayat
- More Than Honey
- The Need to Grow
- Planeat
Books
- We Are the Weather: Changing the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Comfortably Unaware by Dr. Richard A. Oppenlander
- Food Choice and Sustainability by Dr. Richard A. Oppenlander
- The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World by John Robbins
- The Sustainability Secret: Rethinking Our Diet to Transform the World by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn
- The World Peace Diet by Dr. Will Tuttle
Websites
- The Global Benefits of Eating Less Meat: A Report by Compassion in World Farming Trust
- Water Footprint Network
- What the World Eats
References
- https://www.humanesociety.org/sites/default/files/archive/assets/pdfs/farm/hsus-fact-sheet-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-animal-agriculture.pdf
- https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/facts-on-animal-farming-and-the-environment/
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/527483.Ecological_Cooking
- https://www.epa.gov/
- https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/gulf-of-mexico-dead-zone-is-largest-ever-measured
- https://www.cowspiracy.com/facts
- https://www.forksoverknives.com/freshwater-abuse-and-loss-where-is-it-all-going/#gs.zym3k6
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-talks-daily-destruction/
- http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/758171468768828889/pdf/277150PAPER0wbwp0no1022.pdf
- https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/environmental-issues/world-deforestation-surprisingly-results-net-cooling-effect/
- https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/major-land-uses.aspx
- https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/08/26/peak-meat-production-strains-land-and-water-resources
- https://www.globalissues.org/article/240/beef
- https://www.ciwf.org.uk/media/3817742/global-benefits-of-eating-less-meat.pdf
- http://www.fishcount.org.uk/published/std/fishcountstudy.pdf
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/salt-water-fish-extinction-seen-by-2048/
- http://www.fao.org/3/W6602E/w6602E09.htm
- http://www.predatordefense.org/USDA.htm
- https://www.savetheamazon.org/rainforeststats.htm
- https://comfortablyunaware.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/biodiversity-and-food-choice-a-clarification/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/us/neighbors-of-vast-hog-farms-say-foul-air-endangers-their-health.html
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4160808/
- https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/biodiversity/
- https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/topics/palm-oil#start
- https://www.earthday.org/history/
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