In the spirit of sharing useful Excel spreadsheets, I’ve adapted Green Eatz’s table of the amount of carbon emissions from the type of food consumed into what I hope is a useful calculator.
The calculator shows you the same table, but applies it to your household. All you have to do is enter the “Amount my household consumes” column and the calculator will tell you the total amount of CO2 emissions that result from your eating choices.
That gives you a sense of the relative weighting of each food type. For me, it has been really helpful in helping me visualise the amount of emissions that result from each type of food.
For instance, even though my household consumes only a few kilograms of lamb per year, those few kilograms amount to almost ten percent of total carbon emissions from food consumption attributable to the household.
From that data it’s pretty easy to see what can be improved upon – but the improvements you make are entirely up to you. I’ve just done this based on a bit of curiosity about what switching to an EAT Lancet or vegan diet might mean for my household’s overall carbon emissions.
