YOU CAN SAVE THE WORLD with what you eat.

It sounds like a lofty statement. The looming environmental crisis feels too big for one person to make a difference. A  5.4° F (3 °C) increase in average global temperatures “would unleash a cascade of catastrophic consequences,” warns the latest United Nations report. The stakes are high, yet it seems the international response by decision-makers in corporate boardrooms and legislative bodies is business as usual. So what can you do? You can impact tremendous change in your home kitchen. Nothing comes close to altering the landscape and bodies of water on every continent on a mass scale than food production.

kitch·en ac·tiv·ist

noun

• a person who harnesses food procurement, preparation, and consumption as a catalyst for positive environmental and social change beginning in their home kitchen. 
• a person empowered to turn each meal into a vehicle of social and environmental change from the home kitchen. 

The global food system accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions and takes 70 percent of all freshwater. “Destruction of ecosystems and habitats will threaten our ability to sustain human populations unless we change how we produce food,” according to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). If we don’t make fundamental changes as a global community, food production alone will add a 1.7 °F (1 °C) increase in warming by 2100. 

KITCHEN ACTIVISM acknowledges the home kitchen is ground zero for saving the planet. You can be a climate/environmental activist in FOUR STEPS:  

• MEAL PLANNING 
• FOOD SHOPPING
• KITCHEN ORGANIZATION
• COOKING

The four steps of Kitchen Activism transform the daily journey to the kitchen from serving a purpose to giving us purpose. We are empowered to contribute to the solution daily with small actions, which, when merged, will surge into a force for change.

Keep scrolling for free resources to help kickstart your kitchen activism.