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Sustainable Food Drag and Drop
You can make a sustainable meal - without moving, choping, cooking or serving!
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This online exercise aims to help you:

  • Use indicators of sustainability
  • Recognise how to balance various concerns
  • Start to count carbon & water in your food

Use your mouse to drag each of the foods you ate in your last meal and arrange around the plate.
Type the name of the meal in the title box

beerburger
cheesemeat
crispsbread
coffeeapple
eggfish fingerfresh carrotpotatocarrot canned


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Plate

 Each food image has three indicators of key elements of sustainability:

Carbon
Amount of Carbon Dioxide (CO2e) in Grammes emitted during production
Source: MBS (pdf). More on CO2e

Health
Whether red /amber/green in the Traffic light system of labelling.

What's the traffic light system?

Water
Global average 'Virtual Water' content in Litres
Source: WWF (pdf) .
More Virtual Water figures

For each food graphic the carbon & water figures represent one portion.

waste
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Add up your scores for carbon water & describe colour

Make your meal more 'sustainable', Enter the reasons for your changes in the boxes below and Discuss your choices with a friend.

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For more:		 in our Sustainable Food Guide - Climate Change
 - Nutrition issues
 - Water issues Visit our new Carbon Counting Toolkit
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