Like many people, I shudder with joy over delicious food. Eating, especially with friends and family, is deeply pleasurable to me. And I’ve just discovered a great website about food by Bon Appetit, right here, that lets us count the carbon footprint of our food choices.
I just finished “making” my favorite breakfast a veggie omelet, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'locavore'
Luscious Food At Half the Carbon
October 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · energy, food & drink, health & well being, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability
Tags: Bon appetit·carbon footprint·cheese·cooking·global warming·green living·happiness·locavore·meat·produce
Update On Cooking For Climate Change
March 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments · entertainment, food & drink, simplicity, sustainability, transportation
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·Columbia Gorge·culture·environment·exercise·life·locavore·Oregonian·pear brandy·wine
What Is The Diamond-Cut Life?
February 19th, 2008 · 5 Comments · work
My blog The Diamond-Cut Life is about chiseling our consumption down to the core of happiness. What do we really need to consume and do in order to have both happiness and integrity in the face of global warming?
In other words, how can each of us give legs to sustainability?
I think that joy for most human beings comes from honest work, friendship, connection to nature, sharing resources and even
Tags: carbon footprint·climate change·culture·friendship·green living·happiness·locavore·nature·New American Dream·sharing resources·sociology·Wake Forest University
