This course is designed to help learners around the world become more sustainable eaters. Course videos can be watched in any order. Feel free to explore special areas of interest by skipping ahead and coming back to less familiar topics at a later stage. Together, we’ll explore key topics, like how food production impacts the environment and why meat production and protein consumption are often at the center of the debate around sustainability. We’ll introduce the pros and cons of different kinds of agriculture, fishing and food packaging, with a focus on how we can make more environmentally friendly decisions on a daily basis. We’ll also look ahead and explore some of the technology innovations that could become increasingly important as we look at the future of food for a growing global population. If this is the first course you’ve ever taken on food and sustainable eating, you’ll come away with concrete tips for how you can make food choices that will protect the world we hand over to the next generation. Our planet needs many people making small changes in the right direction and we’re here to help with that. If you’re an expert in food sustainability, we hope to offer you some tools that could help you to communicate key messages to others in simple, digestible ways. Whatever your level, we hope you’ll join this discussion as we explore, together, the ways in which we can all become more sustainable eaters. The beautiful story animations were scripted by Lucas Oliver Oswald and animated by Janine Van Schoor. Special thanks to: Lucas Oliver Oswald, William Bottini, Desiree Labeaud, Christopher Gardner, Sejal Parekh, Arielle Wenokur, Janine Van Schoor, Ann Doerr, Perry Pickert and the fantastic team at Friday Films.
MS
Great learning platform . I learnt a lot while having this course .
MM
Wonderful course. I believe everyone should take this course to learn how we can be a sustainable consumer.
EO
It was an exciting journey to have gone through this course
AA
I learned so much. changed my views on many things.
ER
I am a Maya Adam, MD fan. This course is stress-free and easy to understand, yet you walk away with so much knowledge. You will never look at food the same way again. Highly recommended. ​
RR
Superb entry level course. Really good in terms of content, didactics, and fun as well!
RA
It was a great learning experience and an eye-opening learning journey with this course. I learned a lot of new concepts regarding sustainable food eating.
LF
The way it teaches the course is so didactic that I enjoyed it and learned many things that I can incorporate into my work and daily routine.
MC
Very interesting and helpful courses, easy to learn understand.
SN
amazing information. great lectures. always love the way maya mam teaches
NN
I learned a lot about food sustainability and how our food choices affects the environment! I loved this course!
IB
This course was very helpful and I learnt a more sustainable way of eating that preserves the environment as well as health.
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I am a Maya Adam, MD fan. This course is stress-free and easy to understand, yet you walk away with so much knowledge. You will never look at food the same way again. Highly recommended.
The way it teaches the course is so didactic that I enjoyed it and learned many things that I can incorporate into my work and daily routine.
im glad i took this course. Im more confident while making my grocery list and im confident that i can live with minimal expenses
The course was full of information and easy to browse through. References in Resources provided the extra reading if you want to really get into science, details and information on all of those subjects, that reading in my opinion really upgraded the course. The constant "dialogue" with Ms Adam in the quizzes was a really smart and feel-good way to make you more engaged. Also, the video lectures of Ms Adam were as always really engaging and easy to comprehend.
A very well done, concise and informative introduction to sustainability and food. It has practical and actionable information and tips to put to use in personal life and to spread information to families, friends, others. I recommend anybody at least look at the course to see its covered topics. If it interests you, I recommend you try the course.
Big thanks to Dr. Adams for her wisdom. This course helps me develop better eating habits since I have very low energy. I understand education is not enough to justify a life attitude, but this lit the path to develop the consciousness I needed to nourish my body, since both of them together are one.
The course Introduction to Food and Our Environment is really helpful to me, I really enjoy this course. This course helps me to understand more clearly the way to use food to protect our environment, and the way to choose food to save for the environment, reduce the footprint, and our health.
As an human being all of us need food to survive. Whatever the occupation we are engaged with we must learn about our food and its impact on environment. This course is strongly reccomended for all the people whoe really want to paly a practical role for the betterment of our planet.
I love the courses offered through Standford University by far the best instructor and most informative course. I have learned so much and it has increased my interest to pursue a secondary Bachelors in Nutrition.
It was a great learning experience and an eye-opening learning journey with this course. I learned a lot of new concepts regarding sustainable food eating.
Aprendi cosas importantes sobre nutricion y sostenibilidad de una manera muy sencilla y amena, me encantaron las explicaciones de la doctora Maya.
Me sorprendió este curso, sobre todo por el desconocimiento que tenemos a nivel general sobre cómo se producen los alimentos que consumimos.
This course was very helpful and I learnt a more sustainable way of eating that preserves the environment as well as health.
Very well-planned and executed course. Dr. Maya is an excellent teacher with a wonderful delivery style. Must take course.
I learned a lot about food sustainability and how our food choices affects the environment! I loved this course!
Wonderful course. I believe everyone should take this course to learn how we can be a sustainable consumer.
Excellent course for understading the relationship between our food and its environmental affect.
amazing way of explaining and presenting , i like the way to explain through cartoon animation
I learned a lot from this amazing course and now I have different view about our food chain
Superb entry level course. Really good in terms of content, didactics, and fun as well!