Historically, faith communities have fed the less fortunate by organizing food pantries, soup kitchens, and other programs to combat hunger. Recently, we have broadened that work by planting our interfaith garden and donating the food we grow to the Lexington Food Pantry. Many people are just beginning to realize that growing food in this way also helps us to address climate change.
“When we think about global warming, we think about transportation, we think about how we heat our houses, but in fact, how we eat has just as big an impact on climate change.” Michael Pollan, from the film Nourish
About one-fifth of climate change pollution comes from the food industry. That’s more than from all transportation combined.