carbon emission

Book review: Farewell, My Subaru

Posted December 22, 2008 - 12:39 by Philip Brewer

Green Living

Cover of Farewell, My Subaru

There are a number of books now by people who set out to live a more local, more sustainable life, and wrote a book to document their experiences. Most of them approach the problem with the perspective that living a lower-carbon lifestyle is going to entail giving up some of the things that modern Americans have come to expect. Doug Fine, though, would rather not. Especially not ice cream.

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Low-Carb: Less Carbon in Your Meals?

Posted May 22, 2008 - 10:44 by Thursday Bram

Food and Drink

These days, it’s pretty much accepted practice to have a high carbon diet — the tomatoes in your salad may have ridden on a truck for days to get to you and the fish you’re grilling tonight may have caught a trans-Pacific flight to get to your table. We’re talking some pretty high carbon emissions just to make a meal.

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