Sentences with phrase «food miles»

But the concept of food miles isn't just about distances.

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

Let's be clear, locally - produced food provides many benefits aside from fewer food miles.

That isn't to say it is necessarily negative, but just that focusing on food miles as the most important criteria in judging a food system IS dangerous.

We believe we need regulation for businesses to drive changes in fuel consumption, energy efficiency, food miles etc..

Our question is: How many food miles will this DIY job add?

These kids can spot green food a mile away and most days want nothing to do with it.

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

Reduction food miles Because only the raw materials have to be delivered, the food production chain is very short.

Sustainable food supply chains can exist, even in a world of long food miles.

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

I no longer have a local processing facility and meat shop with locally sourced foods a mile away.

The current agricultural model of large food miles just won't cut it.

Added nutrition, fewer food miles, it's better for you and the environment.

We appreciate the benefits of using seasonal produce, reducing food miles and drastically increasing taste.

From labeling food miles in Japan to stickers announcing that produce is air

The type of article lamented by a few commenters on my recent post about food miles vs. food choices made an appearance in Salon a few days ago.

Rosemary and her team firmly believe in supporting local suppliers and produce, sourcing the best of the seasons crops, while keeping the carbon footprint and food miles low.

It can also get you pink salt that's «found naturally deep inside the pristine Himalayan Mountains» — and has racked up a fair few food miles by the time it gets to our supermarket shelves.

How's that for food miles?

Spend some quality time with the kids, talking about where the food you eat together is produced, by calculating food miles and your Foodometer.

Yesterday, NPR's Here & Now program hosted author James McWilliams, to talk about «locavores» (it's the 2007 Word of the Year, after all) and some of the ins and outs of food miles vs. life cycle as a way to measure the impact of your eating choices.

Researchers at Lincoln University in New Zealand... recently published a study challenging the premise that more food miles automatically mean greater fossil fuel consumption....

Local Real Salt comes from right here in the USA, which means less food miles and a smaller carbon footprint.

Any energy needs will be extracted from green suppliers and the proximity of the tunnels to New Covent Garden market and London's many restaurants will keep food miles to a minimum.

Now, being green is all about greenhouse gases: Neighborhood moms are more apt to fret over food miles than felled forests; organic cattle farmers are more interested in offsetting the methane coming from cow burps than pondering squished tadpoles in hoof prints.

Jay Rayner says food miles are not the problem in an article in the Guardian.

The second page of the Salon article has a reasonably fair examination of the issues beyond food miles, despite a citation of the infamous New Zealand lamb vs. UK lamb study, which Michael Shuman tackled and dismantled in a guest post here at The Ethicurean.

This article was first published in Welsh Art now in 2008 We are all aware of the term food miles and some...

Whether for personal plots, community gardens, or small - scale commercials farms, the message is the same: rooftop farms make productive use of underutilized urban space, support the local food movement, decrease food miles, and introduce new streams of revenue to the local economy.

If food miles are a measure of the environmental impact of the distance food must travel to get to the consumer, what do you call the distance the consumer must travel to get to the food?

Shortening food miles (the distance your food travels) helps the environment.

This enhances the diversity of choices in our store and subverts the dominant paradigm of getting our food from massive consolidated corporations delivered via massive food miles.

We presume much greater food miles from products delivered by this distributor than from locally produced products.

- Reduction food miles + reducing Co2 emissions - Pre-packaging, distribution become superfluous - Changing functions of farmer and consumer.

We go the extra mile at Horatio's café to make the freshest food available with the minimum of food miles while we involve students in menu selection to give them ownership.

Discuss Farmers Markets and Pick Your Own food taking into consideration food miles, energy use, carbon footprint and produce.

Wanting to expand access to local, healthy food and searching for ways to lower her own food miles, Sydney wanted to start a community garden on an Intel campus.

You heard us right: Inmates from a prison just outside of Milan will help Italy lick climate change by churning up gelato made from local milk and fruit, slashing food miles and cutting carbon emissions.

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.

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.

It isn't news; he first released his study Yes We Have No Bananas: A Critique of the «Food Miles» Perspective from the George Mason University Mercatus Institute over a year ago, quickly picked up in an edited version by the National Post as Food mile myths: Buy Global.

Food miles matter because so much of our food transport is unnecessary.