Teaching the Next Generation

 
The Power of Food: Teaching the Next Generation — Climate Diet
Education & Youth Programs

The Power of Food: Teaching the Next Generation

Every student who learns how their plate connects to the planet carries that lesson for life. Our education program turns science-backed nutrition and climate facts into lessons kids actually remember.

From classroom toolkits to school assemblies, we're helping the next generation see food as one of the most powerful tools they have — for their own health, and for the planet's.

Power of Food Program
Supporting the Next Generation

Why We Start With Kids

Students are living through a health and climate crisis shaped by what's on their plates — and they're old enough to understand it, and young enough to change it.

9% → 23%
Teen Prediabetes
Diagnoses in 12–19 year-olds nearly tripled between 2000 and 2008, driven largely by processed, meat-heavy diets.
53%
Of Global Emissions
Animal agriculture drives more than half of all greenhouse gas emissions — more than every car, truck, and plane combined.
80% / 20%
Land Used vs. Calories Produced
Livestock uses 80% of the world's farmland, yet supplies just 20% of the calories that feed us.
~75%
Lower Food-Related Footprint
Oxford researchers found plant-based eaters produce roughly three-quarters less food-related emissions than heavy meat-eaters.

Inside the Power of Food Program

A hands-on, science-based curriculum built to meet students where they already are — in the classroom, the lunchroom, and the community.

Curriculum
Power of Food Toolkit

A science-based classroom toolkit that connects nutrition, biology, and climate science — ready to drop into any middle or high school science class.

Partnerships
School Green Club Collaborations

We work directly with student-led green clubs to bring plant-based education into everyday school life, not just a single lesson.

Outreach
Community Talks & Assemblies

From single classroom visits to full-school assemblies, our team speaks directly to students, teachers, and parent groups about the power of their plates.

Experience
Tastings & Festivals

Hands-on plant-based tastings at school and community festivals turn healthy eating from an abstract idea into something fun and memorable.

Fund a Classroom

Your Gift Educates the Next Generation

For as little as $3 a month, you can help bring the Power of Food program to a new classroom — giving students the tools to protect their health and their planet, one lesson at a time.

Donate Now
Climate Diet (Sustainable Earth Eating) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit — every gift is tax-deductible.

Our founder, Jane DeMarines, built the Power of Food program on a simple belief: real change starts with the next generation understanding the power they hold at every meal.

Jane DeMarines — Executive Director & Founder, Climate Diet