How to Buy Healthy Food and Help Climate Change

Welcome to part 1 of our mini series on Conscious Buying Decisions to Help Climate Change. This time we’re looking at ‘How to Buy Healthy Food and Help Climate Change’, which is also part of our series on Eating Sustainably.

You can find all content in this mini series at Mini Series: Conscious Buying Decisions to Help Climate Change.

If you already know that you have the power to help climate change and improve your health and happiness, here are the options to make conscious decisions when buying healthy food and drink:

1. Check out #VoteWithOurMoney with 6 Steps to Help Stop Climate Change
2. Try the Sustainability Roadmap with 40+ Solutions to Climate Change
3. Use the Company Directory to Help You Grow, Eat, and Live Sustainably

If you want some more facts before making any decisions, let’s get into the details:

Before we get started, it’s worth saying that this mini series is based on the Kiss the Ground Purchasing Guide. Many of the facts come from the book called Drawdown.

Find the Book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken That You Can Find Here on Amazon*

When I took on an allotment and started a Biodynamic gardening course, I never expected to learn that farming can reverse climate change and improve our health.

I always felt disconnected from farming. Something that I had no influence over. I’d also never considered the soil. But, after watching the amazing Kiss the Ground Documentary, I realised that the health of every human on earth and the health of the planet are directly connected to the health of the soil.

If You’re Intrigued, Here’s the Kiss the Ground Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iknWWKZOUs

I realised that the decisions I make when buying healthy food give me the power to help climate change, encourage farmers to switch from degenerative to regenerative agriculture, and improve the health and happiness of my family.

Kiss the Ground does amazing work: Awakening people to the possibilities of regeneration. As well as their inspirational documentary, they help people take action, learn about soil health, and join the regeneration movement.

Advocating for regenerative agriculture can seem very removed from our day to day lives, however, the questions we ask in food shops, the healthy food we buy, and the conscious choices we make about our health are all reminders that we have the power to improve our future and the health of the planet.

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I already launched the #VoteWithOurMoney campaign with 6 steps to help climate change, the Sustainability Roadmap with 40+ solutions to climate change, and the Company Directory to help others grow, eat, and live sustainably.

One of the things that I do is to buy foods that help our health and the health of the planet. It can be difficult to know what healthy food to buy so for this mini series I thought I’d focus on how you can eat well, build soil, and regenerate the planet by making conscious buying decisions.

In This Mini Series on Healthy Food, We’ll Cover

1. Buying Healthy Meals
2. The 6 Principles of Regenerative Agriculture
3. Knowing Your Food Source
4. Growing Your Own
5. Composting
6. Choosing Meat and Dairy That’s Regenerating Land
7. Buying Seafood to Help Revitalise the Ocean and Ecosystems
8. Knowing Your Annuals and Perennials
9. Going Beyond the Healthiest Foods

That’s it for this piece. You can find the next piece ‘Buying Healthy Meals Gives Us the Power To Improve Climate Change’ as well as all articles in this 10-part mini series at Conscious Buying Decisions to Help Climate Change.

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Suggested Reading

If you like the topic of this mini series, you might be interested in these reading suggestions with links to each book on Amazon.

Find Kiss the Ground by Josh Tickell Here on Amazon*

Find Soil Will Save Us by Kristin Ohlson Here on Amazon*

Find Soil, Grass, Hope by Courtney White Here on Amazon*

Find Dawn Again: Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild by Markegard and Doniga Here on Amazon*

Find Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken Here on Amazon*

Find Diet for a Hot Planet by Anna Lappé Here on Amazon*

Find Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth by Judith D. Schwartz Here on Amazon*

Find Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life by David Montgomery Here on Amazon*

Here Is What You Can Do

• Use this mini series to help you buy products that help people and planet
• Check out #VoteWithOurMoney with 6 Steps to Help Stop Climate Change
• Try the Sustainability Roadmap with 40+ Solutions to Climate Change
• Use the Company Directory to Help You Grow, Eat, and Live Sustainably
• Be inspired. We can help climate change if we do something about it
• Talk to your friends and colleagues
• Share this with others

Want to Continue Your Journey?

VOTE

6 Steps to Start Helping Climate Change

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ROADMAP

Solutions to Help Stop Climate Change

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DIRECTORY

Companies to Help You Live Sustainably

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Where Next?

There is so much inspiring information to give you ideas of how to help climate change by growing, eating, and living sustainably, you can:

1. Read Our Articles
2. Sign-Up to Our Free Email Newsletter
3. Get Started and Vote with Your Money
4. Try the Sustainability Roadmap
5. Use the Company Directory
6. Support Nafford Junction

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Production Notes

This was produced by me, James Walters, as a personal project to help stop climate change by inspiring others to grow, eat, and live sustainably.

Any advice given is the opinion of those involved and does not constitute medical, financial, or legal advice.

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