About & Sources

Our Mission

One Planet, One Plate

Every meal is a small decision with two audiences: your body, and the planet that grows your food. One Planet One Plate exists to make both of those decisions easier — with real research, practical swaps, and zero guilt trips.

We're not telling anyone to give up meat entirely, or to go vegan by next Tuesday. We're translating what Project Drawdown, the World Health Organization, and public-health researchers at Johns Hopkins already know into small, repeatable choices: a leaner cut instead of a fattier one, a Monday without meat, a menu that makes the plant-based dish the default instead of the ask. Individually small. Collectively, some of the highest-leverage choices most of us make every day.

Sources & Further Reading

Cited on this site

• Project Drawdown — Improve Diets (emissions comparisons, land use, EAT-Lancet red meat guidance)
• World Health Organization / IARC — Carcinogenicity of Red Meat and Processed Meat
• Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future — Health Benefits of Meatless Monday
• Umbrella review of ultra-processed food and adverse health outcomes (BMJ-covered meta-analysis, 2024)
• Mayo Clinic — A Guide to Leaner Cuts of Beef
• FoodUnfolded, citing the Water Footprint Network (Mekonnen & Hoekstra, 2012) — water footprint by food type
• FoodPrint — The Water Footprint of Food
• U.S. EPA — Identifying Sustainable Food Service and Food Service Ware
• Greener by Default — plant-based-by-default institutional menu programs
• Meatless Monday (The Monday Campaigns)
• Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — The Nutrition Source

Photo Credits

Where our photos come from

• “Healthy Gnocchi Buddha Bowl” by FitTasteTic, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• “Vegan Buddha Bowl” by FitTasteTic, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• “Autumn Chickpea Salad” by Vegan Feast Catering, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr
• “How to Make Bircher Muesli (Overnight Oats)” by simpleprovisions, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr
• “Stir Fry Action” by Martin Cathrae, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr
• “Red lentil soup bowl” by Jules, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• “Black bean tacos with mango salsa and avocado cream” by wonderyort, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr
• “Grilled Chicken Fattoush Salad” by TheCulinaryGeek, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr
• “la_farmers_market” by lachshand, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr
• “harvest basket 12x” by naturalflow, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr
• “Empty table setting plate fork knife” by Stock Catalog, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

All photos used under Creative Commons licenses that permit commercial use and modification, sourced via Openverse. The One Planet One Plate logo mark is an original design.