1 day ago by TreeHugger

How Much Canola Does it Take to Fry a Turkey? From moving toward vegetarianism to buying local, organic or free range for the Thanksgiving table, TreeHugger and Planet Green are both full of examples of how we can enhance our celebrations by nurturing a more intimate relationship with our food and w ...

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1 day ago

How Much Canola Does it Take to Fry a Turkey? From moving toward vegetarianism to buying local, organic or free range for the Thanksgiving table, TreeHugger and Planet Green are both full of examples of how we can enhance our celebrations by nurturing a more intimate relationship with our food and w ...

TreeHugger - treehugger.com · Rank: 35 · 9887 references

1 day ago by Becky Striepe

[photo by Becky Striepe] Eating food that is locally grown can really help you cut down your carbon footprint. Most food travels hundreds or even thousands of miles from farm to table. All of the processing, packaging, and travel accounts for almost 80% of the energy use in the U.S. food system. Eat ...

EcoLocalizer - ecolocalizer.com · Rank: 14,342 · 108 references

2 days ago by Chelsea Green Publishing

Transition Totnes…Transition Newcastle…Transition North Howe…Kildare…El Manzano…Fujino…Montpelier… They’re popping up everywhere, thanks to folks like Sophy Banks and Naresh Giangrande, who have been trotting the globe organizing transition training events. People are concerned about two of the bigg ...

Chelsea Green - chelseagreen.com/content · Rank: 46,574 · 34 references

2 days ago by Kate Foy

It’s the first of the month, so today is the second ‘give a damn day’ where I nudge myself out of my self-absorption into an outward focus on things that need attention … things at least, that I can deal with. I’m a great believer in personal responsibility, and little things building up over time i ...

Spinning a Learning Web - katefoy.com · Rank: 147,270 · 8 references

24 days ago by Gerard O'Neill

We're all enjoying the fall in petrol and diesel prices at our local forecourts. My advice: enjoy it while it lasts. Because it won't. The chart is from a gloomy report (pdf) by Barclays Capital (via The Oil Drum - the best energy discussion on the web): it shows the outlook for non-OPEC oil supply ...

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24 days ago by Gerard O'Neill

We're all enjoying the fall in petrol and diesel prices at our local forecourts. My advice: enjoy it while it lasts. Because it won't. The chart is from a gloomy report (pdf) by Barclays Capital (via The Oil Drum - the best energy discussion on the web): it shows the outlook for non-OPEC oil supply ...

Turbulence Ahead - turbulenceahead.com · Rank: 126,231 · 20 references

26 days ago

Dangerously Disconnected From our Food “It’s easy if you stick to a few basic principles – no real food and nothing from living things […] You can’t genetically engineer something that doesn’t have genes.” Tom Bardwell in Hard to Swallow The folks at Equal Exchange are true activists – they have alr ...

TreeHugger - treehugger.com · Rank: 35 · 9887 references

26 days ago

Farmer Roy Lawrence and CSA members - Matt Lowe Local eating advocates often cite reduced shipping emissions as a good reason to source food from as close to home as possible. The concept of reduced food miles equaling reduced carbon output quickly becomes clouded when economies of scale, production ...

TreeHugger - treehugger.com · Rank: 35 · 9887 references

26 days ago by Peter

The topic is arising more and more. So I thought a new category was in order. Indy - Food miles: The true cost of putting imported food on your plate Ch 4 - Kiwi lamb and food miles Telegraph - NEW - Sainsbury boss says 'food miles’ miss point - funny it comes out at the same time as this: Consumer ...

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