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60 solutions concrètes pour réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre by Hôtel★★★ restaurant gourmand Coco Lodge Majunga.

On the occasion of the Cop21, the GoodPlanet Foundation has listed 60 concrete solutions enable us to reduce everyone to our scale gas produced by our food greenhouse emissions. Yum !

This full of PEP program menu ? 60 solutions that provide answers to questions that punctuate everyday. These are illustrated by 100 initiatives “which prove that each – regardless of his age, its activity, the place where he lives, – has keys to act”, assures us GoodPlanet.

We begin here by 6 tricks :
1/ I buy fruits and vegetables of the season
“Fruit and vegetables are like the Olympic summer and winter : they have their season ! Unless you live in the tropics, you're not swimming throughout the year, is this not ? For fruit and vegetables of your plate, This should be the same”, explains the GoodPlanet Foundation. For example, the tomato does not grow in winter. Those you find then in your stalls are imported by air or produced locally, but under heated greenhouses which consume a lot of energy.
“How to get to us, a fruit imported off-season air consumes for its transportation 10 to 20 times more oil the same fruit produced locally and purchased in season”, continuous GoodPlanet, before adding that “tomato produced locally, but off-season (therefore under greenhouse), generates 20 times more gas than a local tomato greenhouse produced at the right time of the year”.
> Astuce : We learn the seasons of fruit and vegetables (CA boost more Canadiana). At this time, It is still good for tomatoes, and you can also taste good dishes of carrots, artichoke, Pomegranate and Quince. See : ultra page practical and delicious “Seasonal recipes” Marmiton. Yum !

2/ I eat less meat (and I prefer the chicken)
Each year, the French consume about 55 kg of meat per person. Gold, still in France, all products of animal origin represents close to 2/3 our power greenhouse gases.
“Produce 1 kilogram of beef requires 15 000 litres of water and emits as much greenhouse gas as browse 150 drive away”, continuous GoodPlanet. What give us desire to increase the place of vegetables, starch and vegetable proteins in our attitude and lowering that of animal protein!
> Astuces : Already, to avoid eating meat at every meal (more, from a nutritional point of view, It serves nothing). Then, emphasis the veal chicken. “All meats do not emit as much greenhouse gas ; their impact varies from the simple to the tredecuple (the learned say x 13 Word). Ditto for their water footprint. For example, produce 1 kg of beef emits as much greenhouse gas as browse 150 kilometres by car and requires 15 000 litres of virtual water, While produce 1 kg of chicken emits as much gas greenhouse than a trip from 12 km and requires 3 times less water.”, continues GoodPlanet. Therefore, We learn by heart the array of meats classified according to their decreasing carbon footprint : veau > boeuf > agneau > porc > canard > poulet.

3/ I waste less food
The numbers are crazy : “Each produces about French 458 kilograms of household waste per year. This garbage production doubled in 40 years. And contrary to received, We, consumers, are responsible for 40% food waste”.
And not to mention the ecological impact, It is also a lot of money thrown down the drain, as we watch this video !
> Solution : It is a list, avoid shopping when hungry (It grows to consume) and we can even help of apps, as Zero-mess (which list products to consume quickly around us when doing errands) or even fridge Magic (helps us to cook with the remains).

4/ I am attentive to the unnecessary packaging
Each year in France, 5 million tonnes d ’ household packaging are put on the market and sometimes, they are worthless. Why buy less tasty peeled carrots packaged so that peel them ourselves doesn't take that 5 minutes, is much less expensive and that it is more better in the mouth ?
> Solution : opt as much as possible for products with little or without packaging (and recyclable!). More and more stores offer corners where one can buy pasta, dry fruits, of starchy foods and cereals without packaging. “Is more clever to buy that they cost 10 to 45% cheaper. And then remove food packaging, This is to avoid throwing 52 kilograms of waste per year equivalent for example 20 000 ping pong balls !”, says GoodPlanet.

5/ I prefer tap water
Do you know that drink 1,5 litres of water in bottle per day for one year equals roll 1500 km by car…against 1,5 km by drinking the same amount of tap water ?
> Solution : the tap is opened (with a light hand, EH) and in a pinch, it invests in a filter jug (and they recycle cartridges!).

6/ I monitor my home appliances
Already, It monitors energy indices of equipment during our shopping. And then, you learn to use them more responsibly. And for good reason : “the energy consumption of households has been multiplied by 4 en 30 years, because of the multiplication of the number of these appliances in our homes. Alone, cooking represents 7% of the energy consumed in our homes”.
> Solution : It is empty, more a freezer consumes : Thus, take the reflex to fill the empty spaces with plastic water bottles (full ¾) lowers the temperature and reduce its energy consumption. When our oven, less it is waterproof, more it consumes. Simply ensure that the gasket is not defective to avoid its oven consumes 30% additional energy, continuous GoodPlanet.

by Hôtel★★★ restaurant gourmand Coco Lodge Majunga.