Eating Green Calculator

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has a new site featuring an "Eating Green Calculator" - a clever resource for consumers along with a way to promote their book, Six Arguments for a Greener Diet. As described on Epicurious' blog, the Eating Green Calculator "lets you figure out the effect your diet has on the world and how making small changes - such as cutting down the amount of animal products you eat - reduces that impact. The calculator also gives you nutritional breakdowns for your food choices, highlighting the calories, grams of fat, and fiber in those foods."

After entering my food quantities into the calculator, I was given the following results for the environmental burden of the animal products I eat in a year: 0.1 acres of grain and grass needed for animal feed, 0.0 pounds of pesticides used to grow animal feed, 4.9 pounds of fertilizer used to grow animal feed, and 674 pounds of manure created by the animals I eat (and that's dairy alone!).

Check out the Eating Green Calculator here.