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Graham Hill
Graham Hill is the founder of TreeHugger.com and LifeEdited; he travels the world to tell stories of sustainability and minimalism. He tweets at @GHill.
Why you should listen
Graham Hill is the founder of LifeEdited, dedicated to helping people design their lives for more happiness with less stuff. When he started the company in 2010, it brought the ideas of his previous project, the eco-blog and vlog TreeHugger.com, into design and architecture. (The TreeHugger team joined the Discovery Communications network as a part of their Planet Green initiative, and Hill now makes appearances on the green-oriented cable channel.)
Before Treehugger, Hill studied architecture and design (his side business is making those cool ceramic Greek coffee cups). His other company, ExceptionLab, is devoted to creating sustainable prototypes -- think lamps made from recycled blinds and ultra-mod planters that are also air filters.
Hill is the author of Weekday Vegetarian, available as a TED Book on Amazon andApple's iBooks.
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“You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment.” — Graham Hill
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0:13
About a year ago, I asked myself a question: "Knowing what I know, why am I not a vegetarian?"After all, I'm one of the green guys: I grew up with hippie parents in a log cabin. I started a site called TreeHugger -- I care about this stuff. I knew that eating a mere hamburger a day can increase my risk of dying by a third. Cruelty: I knew that the 10 billion animals we raise each year for meat are raised in factory farm conditions that we, hypocritically, wouldn't even consider for our own cats, dogs and other pets. Environmentally, meat, amazingly, causes more emissions than all of transportation combined: cars, trains, planes, buses, boats, all of it. And beef production uses 100 times the waterthat most
vegetables do.
1:16
I also knew that I'm not alone. We as a society are eating twice as much meat as we did in the 50s.So what was once the special little side treat now is the main, much more regular. So really, any of these angles should have been enough to convince me to go vegetarian. Yet, there I was -- chk, chk, chk -- tucking into a big old steak.
1:41
So why was I stalling? I realized that what I was being pitched was a binary solution. It was eitheryou're a meat eater or you're a vegetarian, and I guess I just wasn't quite ready. Imagine your last hamburger. (Laughter) So my common sense, my good intentions, were in conflict with my taste buds. And I'd commit to doing it later, and not surprisingly, later never came. Sound familiar?
2:20
So I wondered, might there be a third solution? And I thought about it, and I came up with one. I've been doing it for the last year, and it's great. It's called weekday veg. The name says it all: Nothing with a face Monday through Friday. On the weekend, your choice. Simple. If you want to take it to the next level, remember, the major culprits in terms of environmental damage and health are red and processed meats. So you want to swap those out with some good, sustainably harvested fish.It's structured, so it ends up being simple to remember, and it's okay to break it here and there.After all, cutting five days a week is cutting 70 percent of your meat intake.
3:09
The program has been great, weekday veg. My footprint's smaller, I'm lessening pollution, I feel better about the animals, I'm even saving money. Best of all, I'm healthier, I know that I'm going to live longer, and I've even lost a little weight.
3:28
So, please ask yourselves, for your health, for your pocketbook, for the environment, for the animals: What's stopping you from giving weekday veg a shot? After all, if all of us ate half as much meat, it would be like half of us were vegetarians.
3:50
Thank you.
3:52
(Applause)
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0:13
大概在一年前左右 我问了我自己一个问题 ”我明明知道这些资讯, 为什么我不是个素食者?“ 毕竟我支持环保,热爱绿概念 和嬉皮父母在小木屋里长大 我开了一个叫 Treehugger 的网站 - 抱树网 我很关心这些东西 我知道光是每天吃一个汉堡 就能增加三分之一的死亡几率 我知道每年我们养殖100亿动物 就为了他们身上的肉 而这些动物生活的那种工厂环境 是我们根本无法想象自己的 猫,或是宠物可以居住的 就环境来说,肉品排放的二氧化碳 神奇的 比所有交通工具的排放量还大 汽车、火车 制造肉所使用的水 是蔬菜的一百倍
1:16
我也知道我并不孤单 整个社会 现在我们所吃的肉 足足比50年代多了两倍 曾经我们当作特别的小食 现在却成了我们的日常主食 说真的,以任何角度来说 都应该足以让我成为素食者 但我还是嗯,嗯,嗯 被一块巨大的牛排包围着
1:41
我到底在迟疑什么? 我发觉那是因为这是因为 我把它当作一个二分法的问题 你需要决定 你到底是吃肉还是吃素 我想我实在没做好心理准备 想象最后的一个汉堡 (笑声) 于是乎我的常识 我的用意良善 和我的味蕾产生了矛盾 我总是想着之后再做 之后却永远不会来 听起来很熟悉吗?
2:20
于是我想着, 或许应该有第三种选择? 经过思考以后,我想出了一个 去年我便这么实行,感觉很好 叫做周间素食 事如其名 礼拜一到五不吃任何有脸的东西 周末,自由选择 如此简单 如果你想更 进一步 记得红肉和经处理的肉类 是今日破坏环境和健康的 罪魁祸首 如果你想要和它们说不 你也可以改为食用一些以不破坏环境平衡养殖的鱼类 有了这样的规律 就比较容易记得 偶尔犯戒也没关系 毕竟五天不吃肉 是减少七成的肉
3:09
我很喜欢周间素食这个点子 我的碳足迹小了 我减低了污染 我对动物感觉好些了 甚至还存了一点钱 最棒的是,我更健康了 我知道我会更长命 甚至还瘦了一些
3:28
于是,请大家今天自问 为了你的健康 你的财富 为了环境和动物 为什么不试试做个周间的素食者呢? 如果我们所有人都少吃 一半的肉 那就像我们之中有一半人 是素食者一样。
3:50
谢谢大家
3:52
(掌声)