7th January 2025
We usually focus on Earth Overshoot Day in the summer as we approach that day in which we have consumed a full year’s worth of the earth’s renewable resources. (In 2024 Earth Overshoot Day fell on 1st August). But why don’t we focus on it sooner when we might have a greater motivation for change? ie at the start of the New Year?
Many of us use the New Year as a time to make improving resolutions, so making better or more considered use of the Earth’s resources would seem a good start.
January is also ‘veganuary’ and a considered vegan diet can also be good for the Earth. Locally grown, seasonal food has a lower footprint than meat and dairy whether that footprint is measuring carbon or methane missions, water use, fertiliser use or pollution.
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