The planet & your health
Changing your diet alone won’t reverse climate change, but it can help. Here’s which foods and packaging are good for both your health and the planet’s.
Sustainable eating
5 things to know about climate & health
What diet can protect both our health and our children's and grandchildren's future? In 2019, the EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, and Health unveiled its “planetary health diet.”
What to know about food packaging
Paper or plastic? How to pick your packaging
5 things to know about recycling
Plastic codes, by the numbers
Reduce plastic use at home—for the planet’s health and ours
What to eat
Why a flexitarian diet matters for a planet in peril
Things aren’t looking good for Planet Earth. “If you look at average temperatures around the world going back to 1850, what’s most worrisome is the acceleration in climate change,” says Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
What to eat
Going flexitarian? Here's our guide.
Four steps hit the key elements of a flexitarian diet. Here's how to do it.
Five reasons to fill your plate with plants
Red meat is in the hot seat these days. Experts call it both a threat to our health and the health of the planet our children will inherit. But it’s not just whether to cut back on red (and processed) meat. The question is: What will take its place?
Heart health
How eating more plants can help your heart
Brain health
How eating more plants can sustain your brain
The consequences
The link between antibiotic resistance and raising animals for food
Picking plants
How plant-heavy diets can help the planet's health
Cutting carbon?
Sustainability
Is that food really 'carbon neutral'?
The world has to cut carbon dioxide emissions in half by 2030 to avoid the worst effects of climate change, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And by 2050, we need to hit “net zero”—that is, emissions must be matched by removals from the atmosphere.
Sustainability
Beware of “greenwashed” beef
Sustainability
The one change that can cut your diet's carbon footprint in half
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