Food and Ecological Footprint

• Mens & Maatschappij
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Food and Our Footprint 

Warm up

* List the ingredients in a recent meal you ate.

* What activities are involved in getting these ingredients to our plates?

* Who are the people involved at each step?

Foodprint: cooking with a low ecological footprint

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Compare and Contrast Carbon Footprint and Ecological Footprint

Video Questions: 

 1.What is Earth Overshoot Day, and why is it significant?

2.How does humanity’s ecological footprint compare to what the Earth can renew?

3.What percentage of the global ecological footprint is attributed to food demand?

4.How does food waste contribute to the ecological footprint, and what are its global impacts?

5.Why are dietary choices, such as reducing meat consumption, important for sustainability?

6.What lessons can other countries learn from France, Japan, and Italy regarding sustainable food practices?

7.How can individuals help push back Earth Overshoot Day through their food choices?

Sustainable food?

• Look at the next image and come up with a defintion  and examples 

 

Sustainable food?

Definition: 

Food that is grown and transported in a way that doesn't ..

* harm the environment

* deplete resources

*  overfarm the land 

Video Questions 

Link: https://youtu.be/nUnJQWO4YJY

answer questions on your paper! 

Look at the graph on the next slide then answer the questions 

The seven steps of eating sustainable

1. Eat less meat

2. Waste less food. Only buy what you need.

3.  Eat what your body needs. Avoid snacks and candy

4. Mainly drink tapwater, tea and coffee

5. Eat adequate amounts of dairy and cheese. No more than necessary.

6. Choose seasonal products and look at the product's origin

7. Choose products that have an environmental friendly sticker.

Eating insects?

- a lot of protein, little fat

- much less farmland needed

- much less CO2 emission

- you need (way) less food for the insects than for other animals

QUIZ Eat low carbon

• Take the quiz on the next website and test your knowledge of what you've learned so far about Ecological footprints What are the outcomes? Discuss this in your group.

www.nytimes.com

Talk with your neighbor..

• What are you already doing to eat more sustainable?
• What do you find difficult?
• Is sustainable food cheaper or more expensive? And why?

Your Assignment:

* Create a three course meal (appetizer, main meal, dessert)  with ORIGINAL recipes that you have created! 

* Each recipe should be sustainable and have a LOW carbon footprint 

* You will include a summary of how each recipe has a low carbon footprint 

Assignment-Continued 

• Find the foodprint for your menu (each separate ingredient => website on next slide)
  
• give a conclusion about how sustainable your menu really is, do you need to change any ingredients? 
• Present your findings to the class. Make a presentation about it. 
  
• Use Canva to make your presentation 

foodfootprint.nl