The time is now...

to make climate-smart eating the norm. 

 
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Food for Climate League is a trailblazing, women-led nonprofit working to make climate-smart eating the norm. We create toolkits, programs, and campaigns—founded in original behavioral science research—to shift the perception of climate-smart eating​ and drive engagement. We do this by connecting the dots between sustainable food culture and people's unique needs, values, and cultures.

 

Climate-Smart Food Culture Is…
Plant-Forward. Regenerative. Wasteless. Diverse.

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Our Vision

An equitable, nutritious, and sustainable food system that’s rooted in people’s core needs, values, and diversity of cultures. 

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Services

FCL applies human-centered design, behavioral sciences, and narrative strategies
to develop innovative programs and messages that drive climate-smart food culture. 

 

Behavior Change Interventions

Assessment, intervention development, and implementation, measurement and reporting.

Narrative Development

Assessment, message development, and testing.

Communications Training and Advising

Best practices for food and climate communications tailored to diverse audiences and sectors, and facilitated workshopping of real-world examples.

Change Management

Stakeholder mapping, alignment, intervention implementation, and facilitation of collaboration/collective action.

 

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Press

Founder Eve Turow-Paul and Director of Strategy, Sophie Egan write about the promise of—and risks of—the plant-based movement.

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Founder Eve Turow-Paul and Director of Strategy, Sophie Egan, write about how pandemic food trends show hopeful signs of a global community ready to tackle the climate crisis with what we eat.

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Turow-Paul and Egan discuss the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans on Food Tank, stating: “To ensure thriving people on a thriving planet, we need a new approach. Food for Climate League suggests a radical one: the Biden administration should release new DGAs that marry our human health goals with our climate realities.”

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Eve Turow-Paul on how to adopt climate-friendly diets
Eve Turow-Paul on how to adopt climate-friendly diets

Behavioural changes around food can take generations to embed, but action is needed now to mitigate the climate crisis. Canvas8 spoke to Eve Turow-Paul, the founder of the Food for Climate League, about how brands can make healthy and climate-friendly diets more accessible.

World Changing Ideas
World Changing Ideas

FCL received an Honorable Mention in the Climate category on Fast Company’s roundup of World Changing Ideas, 2022.

Why Do Millennials and Gen Z Care So Much About Food? with Eve Turow-Paul
Why Do Millennials and Gen Z Care So Much About Food? with Eve Turow-Paul

By now, we’ve all heard the jokes about how millennials can’t afford to buy homes because we spend all our money on avocado toast, and have felt the generational divides around class, race, and gender through these prolonged boomer analogies with food. But when you put the jokes aside, a complicated picture of why younger generations care so much about food starts to arise.

Menus of Change: Health and climate crises can both be addressed by the same diet
Nation's Restaurant News
Menus of Change: Health and climate crises can both be addressed by the same diet
Nation's Restaurant News

Eve Turow-Paul, founder of the Food for Climate League, said that, although many Americans have expressed an interest in changing the way they eat toward a more plant-forward diet, “so many of us feel like we are being held back and kind of pigeonholed into a corner.

“A lot of that has to do with the framing,” she added. “One of the most basic findings that Food for Climate League had early on in our research is that so often plant-based meals are framed in the negative. … So often we read the menu description and it's all about what's not in the dish, so you don't really know what it is that you're eating.”

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What Would a Meat-Free World Look Like?
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What Would a Meat-Free World Look Like?
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Eve Turow-Paul, founder and executive director of Food for Climate League, points out that 75% of the world's food is generated from only 12 plants and five animal species. "There are up to 300,000 edible plants, and we eat less than 200 of them," she says. "There are tons of delicious foods out there that are currently being ignored. Instead, most of us are focusing on a small handful of foods, especially proteins. It's time to expand our horizons and celebrate the outrageous and overlooked diversity of options available for us to enjoy."

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Do you have a forthcoming sustainable food product, menu concept, or a consumer awareness or advocacy campaign related to climate-friendly eating? We want to work with you!

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