Sentences with phrase «reducing food miles»

In combination with moving down the food chain to eat fewer livestock products, reducing the food miles in our diets can dramatically reduce energy use in the food economy.

The combination of moving down the food chain and reducing the food miles in our diets will dramatically reduce energy use in the food economy.

In short, it was doing everything right: reducing food miles, staying away from petroleum inputs, sequestering carbon in the soil, reducing landfill by composting, fighting inequality and food insecurity.

Making your baby's food also has tremendous benefits for our environment — you are forgoing all the packaging involved in store bought processed baby food, you are reducing food miles (especially if you purchase local foods), and if you choose organic, you are reducing the toxin overload on the environment.

Reducing food miles with fresh tomatoes being picked, packed, shipped to your grocery store in less than 24 hours.

With facilities in Leamington, ON & Delta, OH, NatureFresh ™ Farms reduces food miles by providing locally grown vegetables 12 months a year.

Producing and consuming food in close proximity as in a city helps reduce food miles and packaging and offers the opportunity for efficient waste recycling through composting schemes.

The concept of reduced food miles equaling reduced carbon output quickly becomes clouded when economies of scale, production methods, and efficiency of shipping methods is taken into account.

Growing some of the food you eat because you're trying to reduce your food miles, vote with your plate by eating heritage foods, or just want to eat healthier, is a lot easier than most people think.

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Food - X helps Walmart fulfill last mile home delivery and — through shared warehousing and consolidation of orders — reduces waste, truck trips and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

This report explores some of the wider social and ecological implications of international food trade, and suggests how to reduce excessive, unnecessary food miles.

Depends on next Governor elected in fall 2018 Anne shared data of school shared services Use resources better - ex: food service better product bulk purchase so reduced cost Special ed teacher cover multiple districts 650 sq miles Schools already doing and savings Piggy back service Volume procurement saves money Once consolidated — Who do you complain to?

«We found that healthy food stores within one mile of their home was the only significant factor that reduced or slowed the progression of calcium buildup in coronary arteries,» said Ella August, Ph.D., co-lead author who initiated the study and clinical assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

«We found that healthy food stores within one mile of their home was the only significant factor that reduced or slowed the progression of calcium buildup in coronary arteries,» co-lead author Ella August said in a journal news release.

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We use ingredients that are sourced locally in our area along California's Central Coast to ensure quality, reduce food - miles & support the environment.

The local food phenomenon — reducing so - called food miles, and thereby shrinking the energy consumption from farm to table — has gone from a boutique idea to a more central part of our post-carbon arrangements.

Overall, though, it seems like a positive development, and, again, should help reduce overall food miles.

The idea of trying to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet is almost yesterday's news in the green community, as is talking about eating locally, minimizing food miles, reducing the amount of meat you eat.

There is also «food miles», referring to how far away your food come from, and «green tax», in reference to putting a price on undesirable things like CO2 or mercury to reduce pollution.