January 2009
5 posts
natural gas orange juice. mmmm.
OJ’s biggest carbon emission comes from the way it’s grown, according to a new PepsiCo estimate for the carbon footprint of its Tropicana orange juice.
Flagged by the Times business section this week, the analysis attributed roughly 1/3 of orange juice’s carbon emissions to the way it’s grown—using nitrogen fertilizer derived from natural gas, and which turns into a...
do vegetables hurt the bottom line?
Refrigeration eats up half of a supermarket’s energy budget, so you’d think stores would be eager to reduce that bill, right?
Not so much, according to trade journal Building Design and Construction. Supermarkets have long balked at simple green-friendly changes, like doors on coolers because it might discourage impulse buying. This hasn’t been based on much in the way of fact,...
mark bittman is spying on me!
First, there was the piece on how to make do with a small kitchen. That was an obvious-enough story—espeically since the Times readers took it upon themselves to flood the site wondering how anyone could possibly make do with a kitchen of modest size. But, what, like I wasn’t already writing a tome—or at least a lengthy interior monologue—on the topic as I’ve adjusted to my new, wee...
cheap and fat
I’m sure that the folks at Time were trying. They were trying to come up with a smart, fun story about eating on a budget, and they wanted to at least acknowledge that crap food is usually cheap food.
But a profile of current diet books? Really? This is the best story to do on the topic?
The rationale, apparently, is that people spend money to diet, and that buying a book is cheaper than a...
not quite a fossil fuel, but...
I know that you know that our food system eats up natural resources by the ton, for no good reason other than we’ve been too lazy to take up simpler ways of growing our meals. But here’s one resource that I bet you don’t think much about: Dirt.
Well, at least, I didn’t think about it much. Nope. I thought about how much oil and fossil fuel we use to grow food and truck it...