1. 2 years ago 
   Shopping Locally at Farmer's Markets Doesn't Necessarily Lower Your Carbon Footprint...Sorry.

   Great article to debunk another myth that shopping at local food markets automatically translates into lowering you carbon footprint. It’s not to say that it does not have other benefits, however lowering your “Food Miles” is not one of them. Here’s a short excerpt so you can get the idea:

   “…they found that lamb raised on New Zealand’s clover-choked pastures and shipped 11,000 miles by boat to Britain produced 1,520 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per ton while British lamb produced 6,280 pounds of carbon dioxide per ton, in part because poorer British pastures force farmers to use feed. In other words, it is four times more energy-efficient for Londoners to buy lamb imported from the other side of the world than to buy it from a producer in their backyard. Similar figures were found for dairy products and fruit.”

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