Episode Summary: In this episode Leekei, Mary Elizabeth and Cat have a long conversation on food, cooking and sustainability.

Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Leekei Tang, Mary Elizabeth Sheehan and Cat Barnard.

Leekei is a fashion business founder, a business coach, an international development expert and podcaster from Paris, France.  

Based in Fort Worth, Texas, Mary Elizabeth is an author and maker of things, including clothing, adventures, and food and a pie maker extraordinaire.

Cat is a small business owner living near London in the UK, her work developed from a concern about Climate Change and she advises businesses on the case for Carbon Reduction at Work.

Leekei, Cat and Mary Elizabeth talked about Food, Food Waste and Sustainability and how their individual journeys have been influenced by their parents and how the Second World War and later events had a bearing on how their parents both respected and developed a thriftiness for food.

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Don’t Take Our Word For It, Look It Up!

You can read about food in relation to this episode, in The Carbon Almanac on pages 116, 201 and 121. 

Or look in the footnotes sections:

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/067/

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/599/

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/the-problem-with-leftovers/

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/260/

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/eating-our-way-forward/

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/022/

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.