Earth Day is Everyday
The 22nd April each year is promoted to honour the planet. However, here at our Human Ecology Project we are diligently working 365 days a year to raise awareness of the key environmental issues that desperately need addressing.
Earth Day is widely recognised as the largest secular civic observance in the world, marked by more than a billion people in 192 countries as a day of action to change human behaviour and create global, national and local policy changes.
The theme for Earth Day 2024 is “Planet vs. Plastics,” brings attention to the serious issue of plastic pollution and how it harms nature. But Earth Day isn't just about one problem. It's about understanding how everything in nature is connected.
They as always miss the biggest elephant in the room that is destroying planet earth, the insatiable appetite for animal based-foods. Obviously, we are nowhere close to living in harmony with nature let alone having robust conversations about such a goal. For that reason, it is suffice to say that without an entirely new conversation about moving towards a vegan world we Homo sapiens are probably on our last legs.
The only cure for the environmental disaster we are experiencing is a change in human actions not clever new technologies. It is our childish belief that we can think our way out of this, spend more money or find a way to continue our wasteful way of living without fundamental change. The only solution is to make fundamental changes in our way of living. It is our diet and our consumption patterns that need to change. Those changes do not need to be a punishment, they can bring about improved health, the end of animal slaughter, cleaner air and water and the knowledge that we are leaving a better world for generations to come.
Earth Day Should & Must Be Everyday
Climate change represents the biggest challenge to the future of humanity and the life-support systems that make our world habitable. We all have the power to create a better world. The only thing that will change the world is a bold and unified demand for a new way forward. For us, that message is loud and clear.
In our latest blogs and videos we cover everything that anyone needs to know to make the change the world so desperately needs. You have this decision at your fingertips, you can do it right now, you just make the decision to Go Vegan, that's it. We seriously can save the earth, we are part of it, not separate from it. With a plant based vegan diet, we can feed the world. Food is grown, not born.
Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests.
Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent. Enjoy this easy and delicious one-pot meal recipe using 'earth foods'. It's fast, easy and the most delicious 'earth food' we are grateful to enjoy daily.
So, what’s a one-pot meal?
It’s a healthy meal in a pot, prepared using a one-pot recipe. My bean recipes are infused with fragrant spices and herbs, then slow cooked with chunky vegetables and rich umami stocks. I use the very best all natural organic ingredients and each recipe is lovingly prepared in small batches that I can then freeze in portion sizes.
Earth Day Minestrone
Hearty Minestrone Soup
1 cup ditaloni pasta
2 sachets umami instant stock paste
8 cups spring water
2 cups cooked kidney beans
2 cups cooked borlotti or pinto beans
2 cloves fresh garlic, finely minced
2 onions, diced
2 leeks diced,
4 stalks celery, diced
4 carrots, diced
1 courgette, diced
2 tbsp sun-dried tomato paste
1 jar Sacla vegan tomato pesto
½ tsp. dried basil
½ tsp. dried oregano
1 tbsp freshly grated ginger juice
2 tbsp, tamari or shoyu
3 tbsp nutritional yeast
Cook the ditaloni according to the instructions and set aside. Mix the hot water with the umami sachets and set aside. Place a splash or two of water in a heavy soup pot and saute the garlic and onion over a medium heat. When the onion begins to sizzle, add a pinch of sea salt and sauté until translucent, about 3 minutes. Stir in leek and celery, carrot and courgette and sauté for a few minutes. Stir in the cooked beans, sun-dried tomato paste, stock and dried basil along with the vegan pesto. Cover and reduce heat to low. Cook until vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes. Add more water if required.
Stir in the cooked macaroni, nutritional yeast, ginger juice and tamari. Serve in warmed bowls and enjoy with some of your favourite crackers.
Note:
I soak all my beans overnight with a small piece of kombu seaweed and pressure cook them. For my quick meals for busy people classes – purchase pre-cooked organic beans.
In good health
