Articles by JMG
Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay.
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Food? Farms? No connection at all!
From the BBC:
The Linking Environment And Farming organisation found that 22% of 1,073 adults questioned did not know bacon and sausages originate from farms ... The survey also found four in 10 people did not know yoghurt is made using farm produce, nearly half were unaware the raw ingredients for beer start off in farmers' fields and 23% did not know bread's main ingredients came from the farm.
(I'm not pinging on the Brits; I'm sure the U.S. is even worse.)
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The Musing Environmentalist highlights a keeper
Karen Street, who comments here regularly, runs an interesting blog of her own called Musing Environmentalist.
I was taken with a graphic she highlighted from an article in Mechanical Engineering magazine, representing the GHG emissions from various sources. Check it out (click for larger version):
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We had to destroy the village to make it a global village
The job of the PR industry: comforting the comfortable, afflicting the afflicted. Now on to protecting the feelings of the poor maligned air travel industry:
As part of the makeover, there's a short in-flight video, titled "Flying's a Wonderful Thing," that has been produced to ease consumer guilt over plane travel, and brochures have been printed. "Air transport made the global village a reality," one pamphlet says.
