Posts Tagged: climate

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Aug 09

Veggie first, local second

According to the Worldwatch Institute, to best way to improve the environmental impacts of your diet is to eat vegetarian foods first before eating local.
“As it turns out, when we look at life-cycle analysis, a “cradle-to-grave perspective” on food products, food miles are “a relatively small slice of the greenhouse-gas pie,” says DeWeerdt. In fact, according to a comprehensive analysis last year by Christopher Weber and H. Scott Matthews of Carnegie Mellon University, final delivery from the producer or processor to the retailer accounts for only 4% of the U.S. food system’s greenhouse-gas emissions!”
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Mar 09

Cilmate Change Graphic

The United Kingdom’s Met Office put together this graphic on climate change. I think it is one of the most informative, succinct graphics I’ve seen in a long time. Very nice.

[via Climate Progress]

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Nov 08

Hot, Flat, and Crowded

If you only read one book this year, make it: Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman.

 

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May 08

Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis

Gore recently gave a new talk at TED about the climate crisis. TED has this to say about the talk:

In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act.

A must see.