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Before You Head Off

• Read the Water chapter and note any changes you want to make in your home.

• If you own your house, find your last water bill (or last couple of water bills) – check out how much you
use and how much it costs you. Take a photo of your water bill, or photos of your last couple of water
bills with your smart phone, and send them to info@theneighbourhoodeffect.com.au. We will use your
water usage data to benchmark your water consumption and, if you send us your water bills during and
after completing the Transition Streets program, we will provide you with a personalised report of your
emissions reductions and water savings.

• In between now and the next session, try to pay attention to how you all use water in your homes: Do you
spot any water being wasted? How much do you reckon water costs you roughly each year?
• Carry out your action plans from this session!

26 IPCC 2014. Another study, with different assumptions underpinning their calculations, put this figure at 30% of global
emissions (Vermeulen, S. J., Campbell, B. M. & Ingram, J. S. I. Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 37, 195–222 (2012). While
the figure for total agricultural emissions varies from study to study, depending on what types of indirect emissions
each includes, it is clear that food production makes a massive contribution to climate change through deforestation,
methane emissions from cattle, and the fossil fuels used to farm, process, package and transport food.

27 Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, By the numbers: GHG emissions by livestock.

28 EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator.

29 WHO (2007), ‘Protein and Amino Acid Requirements in Human Nutrition’, World Health Organization Technical Report
Series 935.

30 SBS (2016), ‘Is the climatarian diet the diet of the future?’.

31 L Wellesley and A Froggatt (2015), Changing Climate, Changing Diets: Pathways to Lower Meat Consumption, Chatham
House.

32 Bajželj et al 2014.

33 M Springman et al (2016), ‘Analysis and valuation of the health and climate change cobenefits of dietary change’,
Oxford University
34 Roy Morgan Research, survey of 15,000 Australians, 2016.

35 Roy Morgan Research, survey of 15,000 Australians, 2016.

36 L Cormack (2016), ‘Australia is the third-fastest growing vegan market in the world’ The Sydney Morning Herald.

37 L Cormack (2016), ‘Australia is the third-fastest growing vegan market in the world’ The Sydney Morning Herald.

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