Over 95 foods assessed!
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Here is a Blist Spreadsheet that displays the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of 96 food products. It includes dairy products, five types of grain, seven meats, nine oils, 12 nuts/seeds/beans, 22 veggies, 21 fruits, and other miscellaneous foods.
The Blist format allows you to play with the numbers. To compare different foods, click on the “Columns” tab, and click “Sort…”.
In order to compare different types of oils, for example, you would first drag “Category” to the box on the left, then drag in “Grams CO2e per Serving”. You can select “ascending” or “descending” for each sorted column. Scroll down to the “Oil” category, and you can compare the carbon footprint of different oils! Try the same for meats, veggies, fruits, or compare your favorite foods. Keep in mind that the serving size varies for different foods, and this strongly affects the numbers.
Click here if you would like a straight-up HTML version of the data.
If you would like permission to edit the document, please e-mail me!
To see the science behind the numbers, read the methods paper.
August 17th, 2008 at 6:19 am
Your blog is interesting!
Keep up the good work!