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Sustainable Living: More Joy And Less Consumption In The Face Of Global Warming

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Cooking For Climate Change, Part 2

January 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

My husband Thor and I love to have people over for dinner. At the same time I’m addicted to sociability, I ‘m also passionate about choosing food with the smallest possible carbon footprint (similar to ‘embodied energy’). Our guests keep coming back, so I gather our cooking tastes pretty good.

Here are the major guidelines we use:

  • Buying local food lowers carbon footprint more than the ‘organic’ label
    Example: Australian wine doesn’t make

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