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Organic Farming Lowers Your Carbon Footprint. What About Your Methane Footprint?
Organic farming was never about global warming. It’s about maintaining a natural, closed system in which natural processes take their course, soil and food are as they should be, and chemicals don’t...
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How Much Greenhouse Gas Does Buying Local Spare?
I said earlier that I struggle to find good data on certain health and environmental impacts of organic farming. Often it’s clear that organic farming comes out better than conventional farming but...
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How Can We Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transporting Food?
I said yesterday that most greenhouse gas emissions in the food industry come from production (about 83%) and not from transportation (about 11%). This has consequences for proponents of the local food...
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Could “Water Footprint” Be the Next “Carbon Footprint”?
Could “water footprint” be the next “carbon footprint“? In short: It’s unlikely. But that doesn’t mean water isn’t a large and increasingly important issue. So, why doesn’t anyone talk about it? Well,...
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Local Versus Vegan: Which Has the Bigger Impact?
The Harvard Business Review recently published an article arguing that reducing our consumption of meat can have a many times greater impact on our carbon footprint than eating local. Of all the food...
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Change the Climate Through Your Diet
The Environmental Working Group has produced a list of the best and worst food choices for climate change. As I’ve noted recently, animal products typically generate far more greenhouse gases than...
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Pastured Beef Has Lower Carbon Footprint
Beef is notorious for its greenhouse gas emissions. Cattle farming accounts for about 20% of the country’s methane emissions, and total emissions from the cattle themselves are the largest component...
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