Waste not, want not: making a green difference with your food habits

From growing your own food to simply planning a trip to a farmers’ market, here some tips to tackle food waste, writes Joe McNamee

As climate change continues, it's down to each of us to mitigate its effects with our choices.

Denial is no longer the main obstacle to tackling climate change for it is only a minority — the dodos, and the deeply disillusioned — still clinging to that canard. No, the real problem is an overwhelming sense of fatalism, that there is nothing we, ordinary people, can do to make a difference.

It’s supposed to be the role of our political leaders to implement policies that will bring about the required change but politics and its practitioners are generally something dangling at the end of strings manipulated by business and industry, a sector inherently allergic to anything that negatively impacts on the balance-sheet, and will need to be dragged by the ear, kicking and screaming, to the naughty corner to effect change in that quarter.