Episode Description
In this episode:
- Withdrawal vs. consumption, and what green, blue, and grey water footprint actually mean
- 98% of livestock's water footprint is growing feed
- Where AI and data centers really sit, and the two things that beat both
New News
Bite-Sized Coaching
From a Reddit AMA: staying consistent when your period wrecks the week. Anticipate the schedule, prep low-friction food ahead of it, and commit to one thing in the gym before you're allowed to decide you're not feeling it
Chapters
0:00 News and Water Basics
3:49 Scaling Future Foods
5:37 Lab Grown Meat Marketing
7:56 Water Footprints Defined
16:22 Global Water Numbers
24:40 AI and Water Use
29:46 Lawns, Laundry, and Water
32:27 Why Beef Uses So Much
36:45 Dairy Water Footprint
39:51 Pork and Poultry
44:11 Egg Production Costs
44:47 Aquifers and Runoff
51:11 Manure and Dead Zones
56:12 Reducing Your Water Impact
1:05:21 Bite-Sized Coaching
Sources
- Global water withdrawals by sector (FAO AQUASTAT)
- Livestock water footprint, green/blue/grey split (Mekonnen & Hoekstra 2012)
- Tofu, wheat gluten, beans, lentils and almond footprints (Water Footprint Report 47)
- Soy milk footprint (Ercin, Mekonnen & Hoekstra, University of Twente)
- Feed-conversion efficiency (Our World in Data)
- US data center water use, and the golf course comparison (CBS News, citing Lawrence Berkeley National Lab 2023 data)
- Global animal slaughter numbers (Faunalytics)
- Over a third of US food is never eaten (EPA)
Related from us
- TVP recipes, if you're swapping out beef
- Bean recipes worth keeping in rotation
- A beginner's guide to micronutrients if you're cutting animal products
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