What’s Going On
Posted on April 23, 2008 by
The Daily Green wants to know if you’d spend a penny to help the environment.
Go Green Travel Green starts 25 Days to Green Travel.
Bean Sprouts makes a clock out of recycled stuff.
Living Without Meat talks about sugar substitutes.
Blogfish asks ‘where have all the salmon gone?’
PBS aired an amazing episode of NOVA last night. Check out this car of the future.
I’m Not Obsessed talked about bees on Earth Day.
National Geographic says where your food comes from may not be as important as what it is.
I’m so bummed because I never buy stuff with fake sugar, but the other day I accidentally bought what I thought was flavored seltzer, and turned out to be sweetened with something. It’s so gross! Now that I’ve read that article, I think I’m going to abandon my resolve to just drink the stuff anyway. Anyone want 4 20-oz bottles of cherry flavored sparkling water beverage?
That is one pretty penny.
That NG article says food miles aren’t a significant proportion of a food’s carbon footprint, but 11% sounds significant to me. And for those of us who already don’t eat beef (and those who eat no meat at all), sourcing locally is the next step to reducing our impact.
Just seems like maybe the tone of the article shouldn’t downplay the importance of eating locally but rather emphasize that the first, and most impactful, step should be to change WHAT we eat. But we should do everything we can, no matter how small.
i agree with Mickey and add they leave out the importance of grass fed beef. it may not have anything to do with lowering their carbon methane output, but local grass fed beef lead a better life than a CAFO cow any day. the tone of the article was almost making it seem like local is no big deal…trying to down play a great movement…unless they are doing so to ensure that the local movement actually stays intact and pristine…? hm.
Noelle — I’ve done that before! I used to drink a lot of seltzer. I hate it when that happens. Cherry flavored seltzer would be great, but the other stuff is icky.
Mickey & Erikka — I think you both hit the nail on the head. It’s interesting — I’ve seen a lot of articles that seem to like to shake things up by giving the “other” side of things even when it doesn’t make total sense — 11% is a big deal. I like to put articles like this into the mix to give all sides of the story, but I didn’t agree with this one.
Adding to Erikka’s thoughts…
The chapter that I read this morning in “Skinny Bitch” made a good point about cows. They pointed out that no matter how nice their life is said to have been (albeit such labeling is not regulated by any gov’t orgs) … they are still sent to the same gross, poorly-regulated, often cruel for fun slaughterhouses. I never knew that, and it just seems so wrong.