Gidon Eshel is an American geophysicist best known for his quantification of the "geophysical consequences of agriculture and diet". [1] As of 2017, he is research professor at Bard College in New York. He is known for his research on the environmental impacts of plant-based diets. [2]

Professor Eshel specializes in oceanography, climatology, and geophysics. He is the author of Spatiotemporal Data Analysis (Princeton University Press, 2011) and the forthcoming Agrophelia and Food Math: From Stellar Nucleosynthesis to Your Plate.

Gidon Eshel is a research professor of environmental physics at Bard College and runs the website environmentalCalculations.com. He is best known for his work quantifying the geophysical consequences of agriculture and diet.

2025年3月18日 · A new study led by Gidon Eshel, research professor of environmental and urban studies at Bard College, which found that grass-fed beef did not hold a carbon emissions benefit compared to grain-fed, was featured in the Washington Post.

2017年2月21日 · In his very first paper, Gidon Eshel compared the mean American diet with five other hypothetical diets—and found that it releases more carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere than a vegan, poultry-based, lacto-ovo vegetarian, or pescatarian diet.

When Gidon Eshel sits down for a meal, his plate holds a full agenda. There’s the food, of course—plant-based, in his case. But beyond the barley and snap peas spills a cornucopia of environmental, social, and political considerations.

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Summary Background Diets that are rich in animal-based foods threaten planetary and human health, but plant-rich diets have varied health and environmental effects. We aimed to characterise a...

2025年3月17日 · For years, ranchers and some conservationists have argued that grass-fed beef is better for the planet than conventional cattle. But a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National ...