http://www.bashfullydesigned.com/2009/06/25/can-wonderbread-save-the-world/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:34:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.bashfullydesigned.com/2009/06/25/can-wonderbread-save-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-322 Ariel Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:00:16 +0000 http://www.bashfullydesigned.com/?p=284#comment-322 Its good to hear someone else thinking about the "cost" (enviromental, economical) of doing things the "eco way. I think about that with my garden- I do it be because I really enjoy it, but frankly, I use more resources in the soil and fertilizer and even the planters than I get out in food. That said, I garden instead of spending my time on other more wasteful activities. The local thing gets me too sometimes- Somethings shouldn't be grown in some places. Here in BC, I can get a locally grown tomato, but it is grown in a hothouse most of the year, which uses tons of resources. But even with something not so extreme- think of eating lamb from New Zealand. Because of their particular land/ climate they can raise more sheep per acre of land. Land and what is put into it to make it grow (oil based fertilizer) is a resource. So if raising lamb in New Zealand uses 10 energy points (I'm making this up) and lamb from Canada takes 30 energy points, than maybe it is still better for the environment to have the additional 5 energy points of transport for the NZ lamb. I don't know if this particular calculation is true, but its a calculation I don't think many people are taking the time to do. Rock on. Its good to hear someone else thinking about the “cost” (enviromental, economical) of doing things the “eco way. I think about that with my garden- I do it be because I really enjoy it, but frankly, I use more resources in the soil and fertilizer and even the planters than I get out in food. That said, I garden instead of spending my time on other more wasteful activities.
The local thing gets me too sometimes- Somethings shouldn’t be grown in some places. Here in BC, I can get a locally grown tomato, but it is grown in a hothouse most of the year, which uses tons of resources. But even with something not so extreme- think of eating lamb from New Zealand. Because of their particular land/ climate they can raise more sheep per acre of land. Land and what is put into it to make it grow (oil based fertilizer) is a resource. So if raising lamb in New Zealand uses 10 energy points (I’m making this up) and lamb from Canada takes 30 energy points, than maybe it is still better for the environment to have the additional 5 energy points of transport for the NZ lamb. I don’t know if this particular calculation is true, but its a calculation I don’t think many people are taking the time to do.
Rock on.

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