The diamond-cut life is about more joy, more integrity and less consumption as we deal with global warming. The food-as-fuel track that the U.S. is on (ethanol) assumes unlimited consumption (driving alone, for instance) with no particular joy or integrity. What are practical, concrete things we can do? Here is what my household is doing [...]
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Rejecting Agrofuel: What To Do
May 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · food & drink, sustainability
Tags: agrifuel·agrofuel·bicycle·biofuel·carbon footprint·carpooling·consumption·diet·Drive Less Save More·environment·fuel·global warming·green living·Honda hybrid·hybrids·Prius·trip diary·vanpool·walk
Food For Biofuel? Wrong.
May 8th, 2008 · 4 Comments · food & drink, sustainability, transportation
While President Bush and the biofuel industry are happy with the growth of biofuel, Columbia economics professor Jeffrey Sachs is not. Neither, it seems, are millions in the world currently starving who weren’t starving prior to the push for biofuel. The food riots in at least eight countries over skyrocketing food prices may have been [...]
Tags: biofuel·consumption·economics·energy conservation·environment·ethanol·food prices·fuel·global warming·hybrid·hybrids·Jeffrey Sachs·life·subsidies
