My post cooking for climate change needs freshening here as sustainability’s body of knowledge keeps growing. As per Michael Specter’s well-researched piece in The New Yorker, it turns out that being a locavore — eating just things grown close to home — does not necessarily reduce our carbon footprint.
Come again? How could two Oregonians (my husband Thor and I) possibly drink wine from Australia and create
Tags: carbon footprint · climate change · culture · environment · food · life · simplicity · sustainability · transportation
Maybe you’re like me in this respect: when I see problems, I want to find solutions.
No.
I don’t just want to find solutions, I want to live them out. I feel more alive that way, more connected. Lots of problems are both personal and public, both micro and macro. Ditto their solutions.
Here we have a national epidemic of obesity and a global climate problem of overusing fossil fuels. It doesn’t take
Tags: culture · environment · global warming · life
