Buy produce shipped from half way around the world where it is in season; or 2.
I do know that if people are
buying produce shipped from around the world the impact on our environment is huge.
Not exact matches
Purchasing these fruits and veggies is also more affordable than
buying produce out - of - season, which usually has to be
shipped in from another country.
Obviously, when we
buy «out of season» the
produce has to be
shipped across the world to reach us, significantly adding to that environmental cost.
Given the amount of beef that we use and the quantity of water required to
produce it, it was more sustainable to have Australian beef
shipped here than it was to
buy local.
The best thing about Spring so far has been
buying produce that's not potatoes or
shipped from the other side of the country at the supermarket.
If you're into Amway, these are the folks you'll be happy
buying your
shipped to Texas organic
produce from.
Today, cheap
shipping and global outsourcing mean that more and more of what Western consumers
buy is
produced far away.
Certainly it is better to
buy organic rather than conventional
produce in the supermarket, or to
ship in pastured beef from out of state if none is locally available, but this is only a small first step toward real food.
We
buy them from the
produce section of our local supermarket, but have no idea how long they've been sitting there after being picked and
shipped.
And yes, I hardly see the value of
buying organic
produce that has to be
shipped from so far away, likely picked far before ripeness and diminishing in nutritional value from the moment it has been harvested.
id has
produced some of the most genre - defining PC FPS games in the history of the industry, but Nix realizes that the console market is just too large to ignore, «I know I have friends who are considered core gamers, who years ago were just keyboard and mouse guys — now, when a game
ships on all platforms, they
buy the console version, even though they have a PC version sitting there and they have a PC that would run it perfectly well.
When we
buy something
produced overseas we are paying for it to be transported a long distance — petroleum is burned to fuel the
ship or plane.
Not only that, it will be a campaign issue in 2016: candidates siding with Whitehouse will have a hard time among any constituencies that have anybody who
produces,
ships,
buys, or sells fossil fuels.
Buying a shirt the second time around means you avoid consuming all the energy used in
producing and
shipping a new one and, therefore, the carbon emissions associated with it.»
They are too expensive for this clientele to
buy and so cheap, filling
produce is
shipped from around the world.