Shrinking your carbon foodprint*

by Bonnie P. @ 1:01 pm on 5 July 2007.

Oh happy day: updating the Ethicurean’s Wordpress install has at last enabled us to embed videos!

In this one from the Nation, video artist Molly Schwartz traces how far food travels on average from field to fork with lots of statistics…although we’re pretty sure that agriculture consumes significantly more than 10% of America’s energy. In the story that goes with it, Donna Schaper offers a fun meditation on slower fast food. (Via Gristmill, where there’s a lively back-and-forth going on in the comments section about why we don’t consider the travel miles of say, our electronic goods.)

*Credit for “carbon foodprint” coinage goes to Zoe Bradley, writing in Edible Portland

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