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What's Your Foodprint?
Students become food climate detectives, calculating and mapping out the carbon emissions of the daily foods we love.
Print the meal cards and cut them out into separate cards. Let students randomly draw a card. Each meal card shows the grams of ingredients it takes to make the meal. All means are standardised to the same 500 calories so that we are comparing "like against like."
Let each student use the online carbon calculator to work out the carbon emissions of the meal. The cards should have the correct portion sizes.
Psychology Techniques
Disclosure
When the government enforces mandatory disclosure of environmental impact in the form of a label or sticker that must be displayed at the point of sale.
Groups
Putting people into groups as a way to create accountability, social cohesion, and social diffusion that leads to persistent behavior change.
Social Comparison
Comparing an objective measure of one person or entity's environmental score against others or against the group average.
Identity
Ways to enhance people's environmentally conscientious identity is a foundation to persistent intrinsic motivation.
Tracking Progress
A mechanism for tracking progress towards a goal that brings attention to, and rewards progress.