Environment
Save Our Water: The Vegetarian Way
Read our latest environmental brochure here »
Calculating Grain:Meat Conversion Ratios
Read about factors in calculating grain:meat ratios here »
The Vegetarian Solution to Water Pollution
Based on the UN's Report "Livestock's Long Shadow" here »
VRG Materials
Save Our Water: The Vegetarian Way (PDF) (y En Español)
- Environmental Impacts of Bioreactors (August, 2024)
- Veganic agriculture as a climate crisis solution (July, 2024)
- The environmental impacts of Precision Fermentation (February, 2024)
- Water Footprints of Vegan Pizza Versus Meat Pizza (January, 2024)
- Nitrogen in manure from confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) source of air pollution (Januar, 2024)
- Eutrophication footprints of vegan pizza vs. meat pizza (January, 2024)
- Revisiting Livestock's Long Shadow (November, 2023)
- Carbon Footprints Versus Water Footprints of Vegan Foods (November, 2023)
- Carbon footprints -- Vegan proteins versus animal proteins (September 2023)
- Carbon footprint of vegan versus meat pizza (August, 2023)
- Estimating the environmental impacts of 57,000 food products (March, 2023)
- Risk of viral pandemics from concentrated animal feeding operations and wet markets (January 2021)
- Vegan and Vegetarian Diets and Our Climate Emergency: Scientific Updates [2015-2021] (January, 2021)
- Food System Sustainability
- Ecocriticism: The Intersection of Literature and the Environment
- Ecocriticism As Vegetarian Activism
- Frequently Asked Questions about the Controversy Surrounding the United Nations' Livestock's Long Shadow and Responses (from The VRG Blog, Aug 2010)
- Organic Farming From the Farmer's Point of View
- Factors Involved in Calculating Grain:Meat Conversion Ratios
- The Vegetarian Solution to Water Pollution
- Lesson Plan: Clean Water for Everyone Today and Tomorrow with Good Food Choices (grades K-2)
- Lesson Plan: Water Conservation and Dietary Connections (grades 5-8)
- Lesson Plan: A Comparative Study of Surface Water Quality with Dietary Connections (grades 9-12)
- Water Usage Math Worksheet (Middle/High School Level)
- USDA Bio-Based Label: Newest Eco-Label for Non-Food Products
- Aquaculture: An Overview (Part I) (from Vegetarian Journal, May/June 1997)
- Aquaculture: An Overview (Part II) (from Vegetarian Journal, Jul/Aug 1997)
- Livestock Affect Our Planet (By Gretchen Chlebowski) (PDF)
- Potato Chips' Water Footprint
- Veganic Farming/Gardening
- Burrito on My Plate: The Water Footprint of a Vegan versus a Meat Burrito (from Vegetarian Journal May 2017)
- Reducing food's environmental impacts through producers and consumers (Science 01 June 2018)
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