The Low-Carbon Cookbook & Action Plan: Reduce Food Waste and Combat Climate Change with 140 Sustainable Plant-Based Recipes, Schrader Alejandra

Food production contributes to one-fourth of our global greenhouse gas emissions. This is a significant number thats part of the climate change conversation. But you can take a few small steps to help lower that number--and The Low-Carbon Cookbook will show you how. Chef extraordinaire Alejandra Schrader offers science-backed information on how to make the most climate friendly choices--from examining the impact of the supply chain for the foods that end up on our plates to evaluating the carbon footprint of various plant-based options we have.

The Low-Carbon Cookbook also includes these features:
- 140 plant-based recipes made with fresh, wholesome, and seasonal ingredients that can help you lower your carbon footprint and foodprint
- Seasonal and regional ingredient swaps you can make to allow you to create every dish in this book no matter where you live or the time of the year
- Expert advice and tips on how to shop wisely, cook smart, and plan your meals as a way to help you save money and reduce your food waste

If youre looking for a way to combat climate change from your kitchen, this book will help you with your goals.

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Foreword by Dr. Gunhild Stordalen, founder and executive chair, EAT Foundation

Talk of planetary emergencies and climate change can be so overwhelming as to scare us into inaction. Who has a budget for solar panels, let alone an electric car? We might want to protect the Amazon and other wild places but feel rather powerless at being able to do anything to protect these faraway places.

Food changes all this. Our food choices have an outsized impact on the future of the planet. Fortunately, we have no shortage of options, no shortage of flavors, and no shortage of diversity to guide this transition. In this beautiful book, Alejandra has assembled amazing recipes with flavors from around the world. What I really like is how these recipes remind us that being climate citizens isnt just urgent and necessary but that it can be enjoyable while also being good for us.

This is a book for the evidence-based, action-oriented eater. For those who want to better understand the challenges we face as a society and who refuse to sit back and watch. Who want to engage, act, and be a part of this decisive decade. There are rich chapters that outline climate, biodiversity, and food challenges. That explain how food can be a major solution. But best of all, it beautifully provides 140 recipes for people and planet.

In 2019, my organization, EAT, brought together a team of 37 scientists from around the world to provide the best available evidence on what are healthy diets and what are the environmental limits of food--the so-called planetary boundaries--that define the safe environmental space for all of us and for our children. In conversations with Johan Rockstrцm, one of the worlds leading environmental scientists who signaled such guidelines are still missing, we learned that food, our most intimate relationship with our own health, and also our most intimate relationship with nature were failing in both areas. Food has become the leading cause of poor health globally and is the biggest source of environmental destruction and degradation.