Greenhouse Gas and Dietary choices Open source Toolkit (GGDOT) October Hacknight
Date and time
Location
Ogden Center West
University of Durham Durham DH1 3LE United KingdomDescription
We are running a hacknight to develop tools for estimating the contribution of food to greenhouse gas emissions, as part of the Greenhouse Gas and Dietary choices Open source Toolkit (GGDOT) project funded by N8 Agrifood. We have made a set of tools for you to play with which shows a breakdown of emissions and nutrition for a set of foods you specify e.g. what you ate yesterday, or your favourite recipe, or the average UK diet.
Data hackers: you could play with different foods to try to find a nutritious and tasty low carbon diet, work on improving the visualisation of this complex dataset, think of neat optimisation tools, work with nutrition and emissions experts to improve the content, and/or participate in the hacknight competition to win £100 of amazon vouchers.
Nutrition, emissions and psychology experts: we welcome your input to improve the content of the toolkit including using other dietary databases (than the NDNS), improving the matching with GHG/LCA databases, and we hope you have fun working with the data hackers to improve e.g. the visualisations, and to participate in the hacknight competition to win £100 of amazon vouchers.
Please sign up here on eventbrite to participate in the hacknight.
Email info@ggdot.org to join the GGDOT mailing list for information about code releases and other hacknights.
Organised by
Sarah Bridle is a Professor of Astrophysics at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester and is PI of the STFC Food Network+ www.stfcfoodnetwork.org www.sarahbridle.net
Christian Reynolds is a Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow (N8 AgriFood project) at the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/staff/reynolds_christian/home
Joe Fennell is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Manchester and Co-Organiser of the Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics Hacknights.
Emma Foster is a Lecturer in Public Health Nutrition in the Human Nutrition Research Centre at the University of Newcastle, her research focuses on methods of assessing dietary intake and has included the development of an online dietary recall Intake24.
Ximena Schmidt is a Global Challenges research fellow at Brunel University London specialising in sustainable food production and consumption.
Mark Green is a Lecturer in Health Geography at the University of Liverpool.