Sentences with phrase «on food miles»

Brooks, for one, questions whether producing tropical fruits, vegetables, or flowers locally to cut down on food miles could result in a greater volume of emissions because of the energy requirements to maintain artificial conditions, i.e. greenhouses.

There is still some debate over the carbon accounting and the circumstances will differ by product but its safe to say that a focus on food miles is unmerited by the evidence.

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.

The company uses potatoes exclusively from the UK for its chips to cut down on food miles, and sources potatoes as close as possible to factories.

Given the local food movement's focus on food miles, Carole Anne's spirited polemic about corporations dropping long - term family farm suppliers when they find a closer supplier should provide some interesting food for thought too.

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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.

I know, Amazon is the «in thing» for buying paper products, pet food, etc but my husband works next door to Walmart & I make the 8 mile trip to our grocery / dollar stores twice a month to stock up on sale items & I constantly use coupons / store loyalty cards.

He covered literally thousands of miles on foot, endured hardships, went with out food, served people selflessly, preached constantly.

We packed lots of healthy food for the trip to keep us fueled, but on a tight deadline and thousands of miles to cover, you can't really avoid the fast food joints (Although we did try!).

Because this is a food blog and I love experiencing different cultures through their cuisine, I'll mainly be focusing on restaurants we went to in addition to some fun highlights of our time walking miles and miles throughout so many wonderful cities.

Also coming next month in central London will be the first two Otarian restaurants, Britain's first vegetarian chain, which will also calculate its ingredients» carbon footprint and food miles on the menu.

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

But keep in mind, as you pound through endless miles on the treadmill and puff your way up imaginary flights on the stair machine, that healthy eating does not necessarily mean unsatisfying food served with a flourish of blandness.

On today's podcast episode, the television star and former chef talks about his career, eating a bunch of NSFW foods — and, oh yeah, what it was like to go to a party at Prince's Paisley Park estate, a couple of miles from Zimmern's house.

Living on the North Coast, I am 30 miles from the nearest food market thus I was forced to make a few substitutions which proved amazingly successful.

By going the extra mile for delicious, flavorful food, Farmer Boys» guests can count on fresh, cooked - to - order meals every time they visit.

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.

In honor of the famed location, at least one of the dishes will pay homage to the Blackfoot Indians who grew, hunted and harvested their food on the land where Paws Up is located today (10 miles of the Blackfoot run through the 37,000 - acre property).

While I was on an Amazing Race - like quest to eat at every notable barbecue spot within a 50 mile radius of Austin, people were simply eating lunch and enjoying a normal helping of food.

They can also deliver food hot within a mile of our kitchen, on request.

Occasionally Chichester is obliged to turn to the classics to piece out the narrative with passages from Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, but for the most part he draws on the solitary venturers in small craft — Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world; Ann Davison, the first woman to sail alone across the Atlantic; Alain Bombard, the French physician who sailed a 15 - foot rubber dinghy 2,750 miles in 65 days to see if it was possible for a man to survive on the ocean without food or water except that provided by fish and rain.

«If we had traveled 1,200 miles to «butcher wantonly,»» says the author, «we would most certainly not have ventured beyond our camp with shotguns, since it would have been easy to use the Eskimo's method for getting food] of killing off an entire flock with rifles or sticks while they slept on the ground.»

Our basic instinctual tastes were formed by the evolutionary pressures on our hunting / gathering forebears, who typically traveled 10 - 20 miles a day on foot in search of food, and didn't have have surpluses or much grain.

Waters is an authority on the locavore movement, which encourages the consumption of food that's produced within a 100 - mile radius.

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.

The School Food Tour was a 5,000 + mile solo bicycle tour that focused on educating and empowering youth to create healthy changes at home and in their schools.

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.

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?

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.

«Ancient Chaco Canyon population likely relied on imported food: Corn may have come from the Chuska Slope settlement some 50 miles away.»

After living well for a year on foods grown within 250 miles of his house, Gary Paul Nabhan sees a simple solution to the planet's environmental problems:

In two months, this crippled, insulted whale had swum 5,000 miles on no food.

I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends» rooms, I returned coke bottles for the five cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.

Doing 15 miles worth of interval walking a week (plus cutting down on starchy foods and sweet treats) helped Cox shed 45 pounds of baby weight in just six months.

I stopped the insanity, cut back drastically on my junk - mile running, started to eat clean (non processed foods!)

During the two days I spent at the recent Natural Products Expo West — the nation's largest annual foods show — I logged over 14 miles on the massive convention floor and sampled many of the 3,000 - plus exhibitors.

I was not trying to transport numerous heavy boxes of food over on a ferry and up a 1.5 mile hill on a horse - drawn taxi to my room.

You know, we went out there with no food, no water and just like you know, we were only planning on running 13 miles, we ended up running 20 «cause we got lost but you know, no food, no water, he hammered through that.

Most people couldn't run a mile without energy from food if their lives depended on it.

And, because it's mined in the USA, it comes to you with fewer food miles than any Himalayan, Celtic, Tibetan, Malaysian, French, Hawaiian, Irish, and Marine Sea Salts, all at a price that will keep Real Salt on your table for every meal.

With celebrity diners and dignitaries regularly calling in, you may get to enjoy some star spotting while out on a date but you'll come back regularly for the comfortable atmosphere and the highest quality food for miles around.

Although I have a few miles on me I still enjoy being exposed to new things... food, travel, etc..

A display banner to accompany geographic work on the journey of a banana, fair trade and food miles.

Educational visits can ask the children to explore the journeys their food makes, include learning about food miles and origins, as well as climate influence on crops.

The average supermarket food item has traveled 1500 miles to reach our kitchens - that's further than most families go on vacation.

Being able to redeem for a roundtrip flight at 5,000 miles when you're earning 2 miles for every dollar you spend with the card means you could realistically be earning a free flight every couple of months just from your everyday spending on food, gas, and other essentials.

Earn 2 miles per dollar spent on eligible Delta purchases like flights tickets, food, beverages and movies.

The Gold Delta SkyMiles ® card also rewards you with 2x miles on other Delta purchases, such as in - flight food and beverages.

I think cash back cards (capital one, citi thank you points, amex blue cash, etc) are a good way to cut down the overall cost of travel such as using them for statement credits on train, bus passes, tour tickets, food, etc and other costs that miles can not be used on.

The reason for the obesity problem is that in the wild they can travel miles every night just looking for food, whereas in a home they may be stuck in their cages for weeks or months on end without exercising.