The Los Angeles food scene will embrace climate action in the city’s inaugural Plant-Based Dining Month in November. Dashboard.Earth is introducing this special campaign and inviting Angelenos to take easy climate actions while enjoying and supporting the city’s best plant-based restaurants. Dashboard.Earth is a popular mobile app that rewards Angelenos for daily climate adaptations.
How the Campaign Works With the App
Plant-Based Dining Month will reward Los Angeles residents who choose sustainable, plant-based meals throughout November. The event is partnering with the Plant-Based Treaty and vegan restaurants. Plant-Based Treaty is a landmark international treaty that places food systems at the center of the climate crisis.
Some of the city’s finest plant-based restaurants will have exclusive offers.
Participants are celebrity hotspot Crossroads Kitchen, vegan sushi restaurant Kusaki in Culver City, West Hollywood’s Pura Vita, Eagle Rock’s Beewali’s, and The Vegan Joint. During the campaign, the participating locations will offer free items on the menu or special discounts to users of the Dashboard.Earth app.
Plant-Based Dining Month is occurring alongside World Vegan Month.
Some of the Specials
The Mediterranean-inspired chain Crossroads, which musician Travis Barker backs, will give five app users its hearts of palm calamari appetizer for free every night.
“We’re so excited to participate in Dashboard.Earth’s Plant-Based Dining Month campaign to help Angelenos meet their climate goals,” says Crossroads founder and head chef Tal Ronnen. “Crossroads Kitchen exists to prove no one has to choose between delicious food and doing good.”
Kusaki, the award-winning vegan sushi restaurant, will offer all meals over $50 a free appetizer.
“Kusaki is so excited to be part of the Vegan Restaurant Month campaign with Dashboard.Earth,” says Pearl Steffie, owner and head chef at Kusaki. “As stewards of this planet, we believe in leaving the smallest yet most compassionate footprint possible.”
About Dashboard.Earth
To support its climate adaptation efforts, Dashboard.Earth is capitalizing on the Plant-Based Dining Campaign throughout Los Angeles. By eating plant-based meals, app users will earn tickets toward weekly prizes. The other climate actions in the app are composting, reducing water use, and taking public transportation.
Dashboard.Earth was also a tech partner for SoCal Transit Week last month. The campaign helped reduce more than 5 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to taking 433 cars off the road during the week.
“At Dashboard.Earth, we believe that small, everyday actions—like choosing a plant-based meal—contribute to significant, collective impact,” said Gayatri Roshan, founder and CEO of Dashboard.Earth said in a statement. “With Plant-Based Dining Month, we’re thrilled to align with the vibrant culinary community in Los Angeles, offering Angelenos delicious ways to engage in climate action while being rewarded for their efforts.”
The Environmental Benefits of a Plant-Based Diet
According to reports by the United Nations, switching to an entirely plant-based diet could reduce annual emissions by up to 2.1 tons per individual. Vegetarians have a reduction of up to 1.5 tons. The switch to a plant-based diet can have a profound environmental effect.
Even reducing meat intake to less than 1.7 ounces daily can have an environmental impact equal to taking eight million cars off the road yearly.
Eating plant-based is crucial, and everyone should take action to help mitigate the climate crisis. According to Ellen Dent of the Plant Basted Treaty, “since our food systems alone can push us past climate thresholds we won’t be able to recover from.”
The International Panel on Climate Change estimates a person eating a plant-based diet can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by up to 50 percent.
“Dashboard.Earth is such a great app to help users take action and to be more mindful of our daily consumption habits,” said Samantha Lau, a Los Angeles-based campaigner for the Plant-Based Treaty. “A simple tool to remind ourselves that we have the power to be more sustainable, especially with what we choose to eat three times per day.”
