{"id":17567,"date":"2021-05-10T13:04:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T03:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/?post_type=change&#038;p=17567"},"modified":"2021-05-10T13:04:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T03:04:47","slug":"change32-meat-free-monday","status":"publish","type":"change","link":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/change\/change32-meat-free-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat-Free&nbsp;Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Become 1\/7th vegetarian.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not everyone can be Greta Thunberg, or invent the next <a href=\"https:\/\/seabinproject.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seabin<\/a>. Creating change doesn\u2019t always require founding a global revolution that gets you on the cover of \u00a0Time magazine. Change can start simple. With things that you do in your own world, every week. Like trying Meat-free Mondays.<\/p>\n<p>Simply skipping meat one day a week can save <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meatfreemondays.com\/calculator\/?participating-people=1&amp;meat-free-days=1&amp;choice=vegan&amp;year-length=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">699.04 kilometres <\/a>of greenhouse gases from being emitted into our atmosphere every year. Not to mention, animal agriculture also uses up a lot of water. Eating plant-based sausages instead steak just one day a week would save 789.25 bathtubs of water per year.<\/p>\n<p>Going meat-free doesn\u2019t only help our environment, it also helps you. Compared to someone who eats 100g of processed red meat per day, going meat-free on Mondays could help you live an extra 1.67 days longer. That\u2019s a whole season of Bridgerton you\u2019d miss out on watching. And that? That would be a tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Want to know how you could do more? Learn about our plans that support green energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choose to skip meat for one day a week. By adopting &#8216;meat-free Monday&#8217; you&#8217;ll be helping to reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses going into our&nbsp;atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17571,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-17567","change","type-change","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-sustainability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change\/17567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/change"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change\/17567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}