Welcome, my name is Frank and I want to invite you on an adventure.
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It's 2018, I'm drinking coffee with a friend and we start talking about the effects of climate change.

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I was 15 when I made my first website about melting glaciers and polar bears.

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I had realised that the world isn't fair. I felt guilty about how rich and privileged I was as a kid from Europe.

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But guilt turned into purpose: to use my lucky situation to make a positive impact.

My coffee is almost empty when my friend asks about the solutions for climate change.
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But I have no answers. All this time I've had a passion for climate change without a clue what to do about it!?

In university, I wanted to write my thesis about solar panels.

But my advisor told me that I would have to choose a topic I knew something about.

So I wrote about social media instead...

I really care about climate change. But maybe I'm not technical enough to understand it?

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Maybe climate change isn't where I can make an impact.

Maybe I've chosen the wrong passion...

But I'm not ready to give up climate change, yet.

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I'm reading all kinds of books, trying to see what would make a difference.

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And slowly it starts to make sense...

11 of the 25 solutions in the book Drawdown are about food!
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In the book 'Drawdown', the third and fourth-best solution to reduce CO2-eq emissions is reducing food waste and eating a plant-rich diet. In their updated, report they moved to spot one and three.

Food is not only a big solution from a global perspective, but also for an individual because food makes up one of the biggest emission categories (35% in the Netherlands).

But food is not only important for CO2 emissions. Agriculture plays an even bigger role in land use, water use, biodiversity loss and eutrophication (water pollution).

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I'm really excited because we don't need complicated technology to solve food problems!

All we need is better choices from regular people like you and me.

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It gets even better: our food choices can not only stop the damage, they can also heal the Earth.

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I've never been a foodie but now I realise that cooking is my daily chance to restore the planet.
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Food is like voting three times a day in what kind of world we want to live.

There's just one problem: I don't like vegetarian cooking.
Most recipes have ingredients I don't know. Or it's a salad that doesn't fill me.

So I decide to look for better recipes and that's the beginning of Fork Ranger.

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In order to make a real difference, I can't go this journey alone.

Will you join me on this adventure?

 

Together we'll explore how to eat more sustainably and become true Fork Rangers.

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