Go Green for Lent!
Try something a bit different for Lent this year and help save the planet at the same time.
Cutting cheese out of your diet can help cut your carbon ‘foodprint’
Enjoyed the pancakes but never got round to deciding what to give up for Lent? Only remembered Lent had even begun after your cup of coffee in the morning, cheeky chocolate bar at 11 and pint with lunch?
Why not follow the example of some of Edinburgh People & Planet who have pledged to go vegan from now until Easter. Cutting out all meat, dairy and eggs (in fact, anything which comes from an animal) is one of the easiest ways to reduce your carbon emissions, and gets you well on the way to your 10% reduction for the 10:10 campaign.
Raising animals not only causes a lot of carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere, but farming is the leading source of methane and nitrous oxide, two very powerful greenhouse gasses which have devastating impacts on the planet’s climate. Check out this cheeky Soy Story video from Friends of the Earth to find out more about the food chain’s climate impacts.
Fed up with giving up?
Instead of cutting something out of your life, why not try something new for Lent? Cycle to school, college or uni every day, really get to grips with the different recycling bins in your halls, finally make a start on that allotment you’ve been talking about or make a big push on your Go Green campaigns.
