Sentences with phrase «more food miles»

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

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Assuming you don't plan to locate your retail food store more than 10 or 20 miles from your home, this should be an easy enough task.

And of course we can source more food locally and seasonally as well as considering preserved options if we want to cut down on air miles.

Derstine's distributes food to independently owned restaurants in the 80 - mile radius around its headquarters in Sellersville, Pa. «We have more than 15,000 products in our database and stock over 4,000 of them, which cover all temperature zones,» Derstine says.

Buying local means that the food has traveled within 150 miles, usually, and is beneficial because it puts more money back into the local economy.

I would support local farmers more to support them as a unit than out of the concern for the food miles aspect and savings in that direction but you can support local farmers without consuming the animal products.

The International Mall in Westmont, Illinois, 22 miles from downtown Chicago, is more or less your typical suburban food court — fluorescent lighting, drop ceilings, and all — with stands selling inexpensive dumplings on Styrofoam plates.

Each year more than a hundred miles of sesbania, lespedeza and other bobwhite foods are planted to supplement the natural broom sedge.

Penguin parents often have to travel more than 30 miles away from their offspring in order to find food.

Chances are, they did not travel more than 20 miles to get food to you whereas the food purchased at a stadard grocery was shipped across perhaps many state lines before it gets to you.

In response to written questions, a Chicago Public Schools spokesman said that recent food service improvements include the elimination of trans fats and deep - fat fryers; a universal breakfast program aimed at reaching more students; a sliced - fruit pilot program in 31 schools featuring produce from farms within 150 miles of Chicago; and an initiative to serve local, frozen vegetables.

Nearly 3.5 million people live in the area served by the food bank, a territory that covers more than 6,000 square miles and much of the Chicago area and its fringes, including Kankakee and Winnebago Counties, but not Cook County.

If your own kids can sniff out a fry from a mile away, though, rest assured that you're not alone — 76 percent of BabyCenter parents say they rely on fast food a few times a month or more.

According to an analysis from Iowa State University, conventional produce travels about 1,500 miles on average to its destination, causing the release of 5 to 17 times more carbon dioxide than food from regional and local farms.

People argue against it by saying, «Hey, you know the carbon footprint of flying food thousands of miles is ridiculous so we should grow [things] locally» but the counter argument is, but if you can grow so much wheat sufficiently in Kansas even including the transportation for thousands of miles it's still more efficient in terms of resources.

A tall man needs larger portions than a petite woman, and a person who goes for a 5 - mile run every day requires more food than someone who rarely works out.

When residents live more than a mile from a supermarket and have limited access to a vehicle or public transit it limits their food source to what is directly around them, which is usually fast - food and gas station food.

Processed food in the U.S. often travels more than 1,300 miles to reach consumers, and produce can sometime travel up to 1,500 miles, or more.

We're never more than 30 miles from the border, and our hours have caught a cadence of gas stations, hole - in - the - wall food joints, and roadside motels.

The plan reimburses your food and lodging expenses up to $ 100 per day for up to three days if you break down more than 100 miles from home.

Travel Breakdown Coverage: For breakdowns more than 100 miles from home, we will reimburse for food and lodging for a covered mechanical breakdown per occurrence up to $ 75

Travel Breakdown Coverage: For breakdowns more than 100 miles from home, you will be reimbursed up to $ 75 per day, for a maximum of $ 375 per occurrence for food and lodging per covered mechanical breakdown.

In the wild hamsters have been known to run five, or more, miles per night in search of food while patrolling their territory.

«Goldie was lost 60 miles away with no food or water — it was more than my family could bear.

Again, in its natural habitat, it would run a mile or more in a night in search of food.

Everything from the Lares Inca Trail experience (with its less crowded characteristics making it a much more attractive alternative to the Classic Inca Trail, at least to me), to the accommodations, the food (which can be catered to most anyoneâ $ ™ s dietary needs, at least from what I experienced both first hand and from others in the group... still not sure how the chef / porters can transport all that fresh food and whip up such fantastic meals miles and miles from the nearest town!?)

Located 20 miles east of the capital of Santo Domingo, Playa Boca Chica is one of Dominican Republic's more popular beaches, so you can expect to see other visitors and plenty of souvenir shops and food stands.

If you use your card to buy food, beer or other items on the plane, you can add more miles.

If you decide to fly on LAN (better seats, better food, and individual entertainment system), you'll pay 2,500 miles more which won't kill you either.

And for visitors who may want to walk off all that good food, then enjoying South Devon's glorious coast and countryside is a must do, and South Devon has more than ninety miles of coastal paths that take in secluded seaside coves and breathtaking beaches.

Delta and American Express have partnered to introduce a brand new, Delta SkyMiles Credit Card with no annual fee † that offers SkyMiles Members the ability to earn even more miles, whether running everyday errands or enjoying the local food scene.

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.

May I just say that I am really surprised that designers and marketers are not making more of an effort to help us all Get GROWING (G Y 0) so we all can even in part lower our food miles.

What it really wants is someone to promise them they can keep on doing what they're used to doing: buying more stuff they can't afford, eating more bad food that will kill them, and driving more miles than circumstances will allow.

Less miles = better and more socially / environmentally responsible food.

Basically, McWilliams asserted that local food in many cases is not better for the environment than its globally sourced equivalent, but actually worse; his main point is that the eat - local movement needs to take more than food - miles into account.

Shoppers concerned about melting icecaps wouldn't have to scratch their heads and wonder how many food miles a tomato has traveled, or fret about whether a tightly packed ship full of produce from Chile emits more carbon than having everyone haul groceries in their SUVs from the local farm.

Apparently a food calorie often uses more fossil fuel than the equivalent electric energy needed to power you the same distance on a bike — partly because you need more energy to go one miles due to inefficiencies in your body getting motive force out of the calories than an electric system does, even if you take into account the generation and transportation losses of the electrical power.

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The study found «strong indirect edge effects over decades» in forests more than a kilometer (0.6 miles) from oil palm plantations, «suggesting the true global ecological footprint of human food production has been substantially underestimated.»

Add this and if you break down more than 100 miles from home, we'll reimburse you (up to $ 500) to cover food, hotel and other transportation costs.

When you crash your bike more than 100 miles from home, Excursion Diversion coverage pays for eligible expenses such as food, lodging, lost deposits, transportation, and towing.

McDonald's restaurants in the United States are using call centres and digital photography to process orders — call centres hundreds of miles away providing faster, more accurate fast food!