CLIMATE Conscious Wilmslow is organising a talk on how changing your diet can help to reduce your impact on the climate.

The talk is being given by Professor Sarah Bridle from Wilmslow at the Undercroft at the URC on Thursday, February 6 at 8.15pm, and is free to attend.

Lisa and Tilly Johnson, the founders of Climate Conscious Wilmslow, have organised the meet to encourage residents to think more about the planet and the food we eat and its impact on climate change.

Sarah is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Manchester, and her talk is entitled Change Your Diet: The Easiest Way To Help Reduce Your Climate Impact.

Lisa said: “Sarah has been studying dark matter and dark energy for the last 20 years, but when her children started school she started to think about our own planet in the next 20 years and beyond.

“She learned about climate change properly for the first time, how it threatens worldwide food production and how food causes about a quarter of all global warming.

“Sarah wanted to know how much each of her food choices was contributing, and why.

“She delved into the academic research literature, and summarised the results in simple charts.

“The charts make it easy for the non-specialist to see the impacts of different meal options, and show that some easy food switches can reduce food greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent.

“Most of us make many food choices every day, and by changing these we can significantly reduce climate change caused by food, and free up land that can be used to help reduce climate change overall.”

You can find out more about what Climate Conscious Wilmslow are up to on their Facebook group.

The group is planning more family-focused activities in the coming weeks and would love more people to be involved.

Sarah Bridle has diversified from cosmology into agriculture and food research, motivated by the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2017 she founded the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Food Network, bringing together academic food research and industry with STFC capabilities across physics and the UK’s largest science facilities.

Sarah led the Take a Bite out of Climate Change exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in 2019.