Eat Your Values (CanopyLAB)

Each course unit contains free online resources/materials ranging from videos, articles, presentations, etc.

Unit 1: Introduction to How to Eat Your Values

Unit 2: Food and Climate Change

Unit 3: Food and Nature Relatedness

Unit 4: Food and Developing New Habits

Unit 5: Food and Culture

When you stop and think about, one of the most conscious acts you do everyday that connects you to entire natural world, is eating. Each morsel of food is brought to you by a complex collaborative system of people, animals, plants, wind, water, sunlight, soil and billions of micro-organisms that scientists have only begun to understand. Framed that way, it is perhaps no surprise that our food system has a greater impact on climate change than the entire global transport system. What that means for the average person, is what you eat accounts for more than a quarter of your carbon footprint. Eat Your Values takes you on a journey to develop your awareness of how the choices that you make about the food you eat, are also expressions of how you value yourself as a part of nature. As we explore how the food system impacts (and is impacted by) climate change, we will also explore how the food choices that you make can be moments of activism. Yet, we all know that making change personally and contributing to change in society is not something that happens overnight. That is why in Eat Your Values we will be exploring change through the lenses of eco psychology and cultural anthropology and learning skills that support your mental wellbeing and the development of new foodie rituals (recipes included!) that help to develop new habits. “You are what you eat” will take on much richer meaning than you have ever considered before!