Grow your own and forage: eat better without costing the earth

Food production and waste has a major impact. Our new series Life Swaps looks at how to live more sustainably, starting with better food choicesSitting down to lunch or dinner may not feel like an act of environmental destruction, yet all that eating isn't doing the planet many favours. Vast quantities of water, chemicals, fuel and other resources are splurged on food production and transport, and then we devour only a fraction of that output. Each year, Aussie consumers turf around 3.1m tonnes of edible food, which ends up rotting in landfill, giving off methane gases that further harm the environment. Continue reading...