May 2009
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Eco-sailors rescued by oil tanker →
Oh, the irony. The BBC reports:
An expedition team which set sail from Plymouth on a 5,000-mile carbon emission-free trip to Greenland have been rescued by an oil tanker. […]
The team, which left Mount Batten Marina in Plymouth on 19 April in a boat named the Fleur, aimed to rely on sail, solar and man power on a 580-mile (933km/h) journey to and from the highest point of the Greenland...
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“The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed renewable fuel standards that could...”
– LA Times, via Kevin Drum / Mother Jones
Via mattlehrer, who writes: “When Obama appointed Vilsack Secretary of Agriculture, I thought that hope for this was postponed indefinitely. This is excellent news.”
Seconded!
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Study finds that it's what you eat, not how far it...
I attended a couple sessions at the Brooklyn Food Conference on Saturday; there was, of course, a lot of talk of one’s “foodprint” (GHG emissions generated by diet). I learned that one person eating local for one year saves the equivalent GHG emissions as a 1,000-mile car drive — honestly, that isn’t much. It’s the same as taking a few dozen less trips to the store, or skipping a road trip. And...