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It's Day 23 of 30 Days of Climate Action! Today i

It's Day 23 of 30 Days of Climate Action!

Today is all about clean cookstoves. Did you know that of Drawdown’s list of top 100 solutions to climate change, improving clean cookstoves is in the top 10? They also save lives.

Nearly one in three people on the planet cooks over open fires or outdated stoves, fueled by polluting wood principally but also charcoal, animal dung and agricultural waste. Because these fires and stoves burn inside people’s homes, families breathe in black carbon, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and methane, which leads to an estimated 4 million deaths per year.

These cooking practices exacerbate climate change in two ways—through deforestation driven by harvesting wood for fuel and by burning the harvested wood and generating emissions. Drawdown estimates these emissions account for from 2 to 5 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.

Link in bio @zerowastechef for the full story plus a cook-along fundraiser!

This little solar cooker is one of many I checked out at a solar cooking festival hosted by @solarcookersinternational several years ago in Sacramento.

I've sprinkled some book recommendations into my J

Can we please have this everywhere? From @ecowatc

Can we please have this everywhere?

From @ecowatch: In Maui, restaurants "purchase stainless steel HuiZero containers, which are exchangeable at all other participating restaurants. When customers order food to go, they pay a $10 deposit to receive their food in a reusable container. The next time they order from a participating restaurant, they can bring that tin back to receive either $10 cash or $10 credit towards their food, depending on the restaurant."

Customers can drop off their tins dirty. Restaurants wash them. Brilliant!

Check out the list of participating businesses at @huizerohawaii.

Thank you for the story this week @ebtimes. "Reso

Thank you for the story this week @ebtimes.

"Resolved to reduce waste, save money and eat more deliciously? You need a local role model. Someone who makes it look easy, and won’t pile on the eco-guilt even if you forget to save your apple peels every now and then."

The story includes a couple of recipe excerpts, Eat All Your Vegetable Pancakes and Sparkling Tepache, from my cookbook.

Happy 2022! So far, so good... Today is Day 1 of

Happy 2022! So far, so good...

Today is Day 1 of my new year's challenge, 30 Days of Climate Action. Today's action is …🥁 🥁 🥁... have a conversation with someone about the changing climate.

Climate scientist @katharinehayhoe, author of the excellent new book, Saving Us, A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, says the number one thing anyone can do about the climate change is to talk about it. But how you talk about it is crucial. Hayhoe says to start with something you both have in common and care about and how climate change affects it. (e.g., I'm Canadian and a warming climate threatens maple syrup production).

You can read the full action in my newsletter (link @zerowastechef). And please read this book! If you had some climate conversations over the holidays that didn't go over too well, this book will prepare you for the next ones. It is also filled with hope. Hayhoe lays out dozens upon dozens of examples of climate solutions that people around the world are already implementing.

Worrying about the changing climate can make you w

Beginning January 1st—only a few days away 😯—I'm launching a subset of my newsletter: 30 Days of Climate Action.

The format differs a bit from previous January challenges I've done that lay out the entire month's worth of actions on my site all at once. For this 30-day plan, every day, you'll receive a new task in your inbox to help keep you motivated (and hopefully in suspense!).

I regularly get DMs asking, "What can we do on a bigger scale?" I've included lots of answers to this question in the 30 actions. Any guesses what the first action is? Registration link in bio @zerowastechef.

This isn't 100 percent zero waste but it's 100 per

This isn't 100 percent zero waste but it's 100 percent cute!

My daughter Charlotte lives in Montreal with her aunt, uncle and 4-year-old, dump truck-obsessed cousin so she made him this gingerbread dump truck this weekend. Charlotte followed a gingerbread recipe from @sallysbakeblog and based the design on a dump truck soft toy she sewed for her cousin last Christmas.

The little presents on top do have some wrapping on them but you can skip those. Even with them, baking and assembling a homemade gingerbread house (or dump truck) cuts down on the packaging waste of store-bought, prefab gingerbread house kits plus you can design whatever type of structure you'd like. Make a simple cottage or a yurt or a mansion or a truck or, or, or...

You can also eat the house! Yes, you can eat homemade gingerbread houses (and also store-bought if they contain edible ingredients and pieces, which most do). The houses taste better fresh, so eat yours within a week or so (depending on the recipe you followed). Pick off candies when no one is looking, stealthily break off pieces of the roof here and there, dip them into a cup of tea, or crush the gingerbread into crumbs and use them to later make a cookie crumb pie crust.

What would be your ideal gingerbread house (or structure)?

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