Meat and dairy industries are responsible for around 15% of global greenhouse emissions. Eating less meat makes a big difference to carbon emissions and impact on the environment. Eating a plant-based diet also helps to reduce water use, and means much less waste if land can feed humans instead of livestock. Climate Action Lewisham has launched a competition to showcase [...]
Welcome to Climate Action Lewisham ‘Green Your Eats 2022’. If you joined us last year, welcome back! Eating meat and animal products in such great amounts is one of the leading causes of climate change at the moment so reducing the amount of meat and dairy we eat is one of the best things we can do to lessen the [...]
In January 2021, Climate Action Lewisham celebrated Veganuary! Eating less meat and dairy can substantially reduce a person’s carbon footprint, and we wanted to encourage people to try out a plant-based diet, and hopefully realise that it’s not that hard. On the contrary, it can be delicious, healthy and guilt-free! A whole month of veganism can be daunting though. So [...]
Every Sunday in January 2021, CAL is inviting you to participate in live zoom cooking sessions with a vegan cook. On 10th January, we are thrilled to have Bromley resident Sonia Heaton host a session. Sonia hosts The Green Plate on Facebook, and here she gives some background on the reasons why she became vegan and what influences her cooking. [...]
Could you eat a plant-based diet for seven days? You may be thinking: ugh, no way! Too much to think about / my family have to eat meat / isn’t it just chickpeas and salad…? I felt exactly the same way when my son – an inveterate carnivore - initially proposed it two years ago. The challenge was doing the [...]