food miles
description: distance food is transported from production to consumption
66 results
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
by Jeff Speck · 13 Nov 2012 · 342pp · 86,256 words
, and Jesse Kocher, three partners in a software company with the incongruously automotive name of Front Seat. “I had heard a story on NPR about food miles in England—labeling food with how far it had to travel to get to you,” Lerner told me recently, “and I thought, why not instead
St Pancras Station
by Simon Bradley · 14 Apr 2007
specialisation; the divorce of production from consumption; the spread of factory-made foods, trumpeted by intrusive advertising: all have a contemporary ring. The concept of ‘food miles’ is more recent, as are the associated anxieties about carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. The nineteenth century knew nothing of the last, but the
Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
by Stefan Al · 11 Apr 2022 · 300pp · 81,293 words
increasingly home to vegetables. Urban agriculture, whether on roofs or in community gardens, has been making its way into cities as a way to reduce “food miles”: the energy wasted in shipping food from far away to your local grocery store. With fruit trees beginning to be part of cities, we have
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not just with horticulturalists but with agriculturalists. Even our greenest cities waste energy on shipping food from thousands of miles away. We can minimize these “food miles” by incorporating agriculture into our buildings. This way, cities can be agriculturally productive instead of being consuming islands relying on a vast periphery of greenhouses
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, 32, 46, 59, 64, 105, 183 “floor area ratio” regulations, 189–90 floor cycle, 40 fly ash, 33, 44 flying buttresses, 52, 57–58, 81 food miles, 250, 261 footbridges, in Hong Kong, 229 Ford, Henry, 219 formwork, 40 40 Wall Street, 60 Foster, Norman, 132–33, 168, 169 432 Park Avenue
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure
by Tim Harford · 1 Jun 2011 · 459pp · 103,153 words
helped – but only a little. Going organic trims 5 to 15 per cent off the cheeseburger and lamb chop figures. Buying local produce to reduce ‘food miles’, however, is often a counterproductive exercise. While it’s clearly true that freighting food around the world uses energy, the impact is less than you
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it travels by ship; when it does travel by plane, it doesn’t get a big seat with ample legroom and free champagne (the term ‘food miles’ misleadingly echoes ‘air miles’, with its connotations of business-class indulgence rather than efficiently packed containers); and it was probably produced in a much more
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–9, 173, 176, 178–80; ‘carbon footprinting’, 159–66; carbon tax/price idea, 167–9, 178–80, 222; environmental regulations and, 169–74, 176, 177; ‘food miles’ and, 159, 160–1, 168; governments/politics and, 157–8, 163, 169–74, 176, 180; greenhouse effect and, 154–6; individual behaviour and, 158–63
Discover Caribbean Islands
by Lonely Planet
(30°F) and raining, you’d think you were in Amsterdam. Waiters scamper among the outdoor tables with trays of drinks and dishes of simple foods. Miles Jazz Cafe Bar map Google map (Nieuwestraat 48, Pietermaai; 5pm-2am Mon-Sat) That’s Miles as in Davis, one of the inspirations for this
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 28 Jan 2020 · 501pp · 114,888 words
Iraq,” Harpers, February 2004. See: https://harpers.org/archive/2004/02/the-oil-we-eat/. The average American meal travels: Rich Pirog, “The Evolution of Food Miles and Its Limitations as an Indicator of Energy Use and Climate Impact.” See: https://aceee.org/files/pdf/conferences/ag/2008/RPirog.pdf. according to
Great Britain
by David Else and Fionn Davenport · 2 Jan 2007
during the autumn cropping season, although you can always choose between 10 different varieties flown in from New Zealand, Chile or South Africa. But despite ‘food miles’ and other dilemmas, British food continues to change for the better, due partly to outside influence. For decades most towns have boasted Chinese and Indian
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Quay neatly fulfils all your food needs in one: it’s a restaurant, brasserie, bar, deli, bakery and cookery school. Its efforts to shrink the food-miles map have produced a menu bursting with organic, seasonal, regionally sourced ingredients, and proves ‘sustainable’ can equal ‘delectable’. Settle down at a sanded wooden table
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taste of ecofriendly Totnes head for this futuristic farm bistro. Vegetables are plucked to order from the fields in front of you to ensure minimal food miles, the meats are organic and locally sourced, and the dining area is a huge, hip hangar-like canteen. The food treatments are imaginative, too – try
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name in terms of its location, aesthetics and holistic treatments. Most of all, however, it stands apart for its green credentials – the restaurant’s low-food-miles menu draws on local produce, including organic home-grown ingredients from the kitchen garden. Bay Bistro & Coffee House ( 01792-390519; Rhossili; 10am-5pm, plus 7
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
by Benjamin Lorr · 14 Jun 2020 · 407pp · 113,198 words
, fall out of fashion. The value of what we no longer have expands in our imagination. In the 1920s, fancy New York restaurants advertised their “food miles,” proudly touting the distance each ingredient traveled on the menu as a symbol of sophistication. Now we see the same measure as a proxy for
England
by David Else · 14 Oct 2010
Quay neatly fulfils all your food needs in one: it’s a restaurant, brasserie, bar, deli, bakery and cookery school. Its efforts to shrink the food-miles map have produced a menu bursting with organic, seasonal, regionally sourced ingredients, and proves ‘sustainable’ can equal ‘delectable’. Settle down at a sanded wooden table
Aerotropolis
by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay · 2 Jan 2009 · 603pp · 182,781 words
during last April’s volcanic ash crisis, when grounded flights led to shortages. Asparagus, grapes, green onions, and lettuce all went missing at Heathrow. Airlifted food miles have tripled in Britain since 1992, growing an average of 9 percent annually while total imports barely budged. This, in turn, has sparked a heated
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debate on the future of food: Will it be locally grown, or global? And which is the right thing to do? Flowers and Food Miles In January 2007, Sir Terry Leahy, the chief executive of Tesco, Britain’s largest retailer, delivered a speech about climate change. The grocery chain faced
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their anger is the debate over Heathrow. Another, referenced by Leahy in his speech, is the concept of “food miles”—the distance a product travels from the farm or ocean to your home. Food miles have become a shorthand for measuring food’s carbon footprint. It’s logical to assume that food—or flowers
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. We are what we eat, and in our identities as consumers we are what we consume—and how visibly we consume it. As a result, food miles and carbon footprints have become wrapped up in a much larger critique of global food chains. Less-than-scientific correlations have been found between how
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produce consumes anywhere from four to seventeen times more fuel and emits a corresponding amount of carbon. But distance has little to do with it. “Food miles are a good measure of how far food has traveled,” said Iowa State’s Rich Pirog. “But they’re not a very good measure of
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proof as far as carbon was concerned. The chain would formulate a comprehensive “carbon count” for each of its seventy thousand products, going far beyond food miles. It would be a “universally accepted and commonly understood measure of the carbon footprint of every product we sell—looking at its complete lifecycle from
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pastureland. The Antipodes’ well-traveled milk has half the footprint of a British dairy’s, thanks to a power grid fed mostly by renewable energy. Food miles cannot begin to compare in toxicity with flatulent cattle. Anyone who’s read The Omnivore’s Dilemma can recite chapter and verse on the perils
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that nearly a third of its footprint stems from feed production, another third from storage, and much of the rest from slaughtering, frying, and baking. Food miles contribute 3 percent. One study of Britain’s food chain attributed nearly half its footprint to cattle. The United Nations estimates livestock’s share of
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worldwide greenhouse gases at 18 percent, more than all forms of transport on the planet combined. We could erase the footprint of food miles—and all miles—by becoming vegetarians. We could do it if we gave up beef and dairy only once a week. “Dietary shift can be
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household’s food-related climate footprint than ‘buying local,’” recommend Christopher Weber and H. Scott Matthews, Carnegie Mellon engineers who analyzed the American food chain. Food miles compose 4 percent of its emissions, the pair found; seen from this perspective, the Big Mac is healthier than a home-cooked meal. But from
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what perspective does that make sense? Air Miles and Fair Miles And thus food miles hit a dead end. “If you care about the environment, there’s certainly a case to be made for growing things where they grow best
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Pole sick; buy Kenyan lettuce, and make a Kenyan healthy.” The virtue of the transactions was not up for debate. He characterizes the backlash against food miles as “food angst.” “The chattering classes have a nice, fuzzy idea of what farming should be,” he told me. “They definitely don’t like corporate
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—a Ugandan family free of malaria, or an un-married young Kenyan woman with a concrete floor and running water. Oxfam International has suggested replacing food miles with “fair” ones, taking all of these variables into account. Echoing Michael Pollan’s dictum, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants,” Oxfam adds, “Buy
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their stories resonates with you? In July 2009, Walmart announced its intention to create its own sustainability index. Unlike Tesco, which took carbon emissions and food miles as its starting points, Walmart calls for a complete life cycle analysis of every product it carries, taking into account not only greenhouse gases but
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without making things worse—the oil spill in the gulf taught us that. Air travel’s complicity in peak oil and climate change evokes the food miles argument writ large: moving people and goods halfway around the world when they could be made or grown or live closer to home is ethically
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Fishman explored the unintended consequences of this in The Wal-Mart Effect. The New Yorker’s Michael Specter chose to open his critique of the food miles movement with Sir Terry Leahy’s speech to the Forum of the Future, and I chose to do the same. Leahy’s speech (the full
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produce typically travels by truck is often used to bolster locavore arguments. The study comparing New Zealand lamb and milk with their British counterparts is “Food Miles—Comparative Energy/Emissions Performance of New Zealand’s Agriculture Industry,” a research report published by Lincoln University’s Agribusiness & Economics Research Unit in July 2006
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courtesy of Jamais Cascio’s “The Cheeseburger Footprint” (http://openthefuture.com/cheeseburger _CF.html). Christoper L. Weber and H. Scott Matthews argued for substitution in “Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States” (Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 42, no. 10, 2008). Michael Pollan’s prescription for
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,’ ” July 27, 2010). The Economist saw the trend as “Outsourcing’s Third Wave” (May 21, 2009). The Oxfam report cited is “Fair Miles: Recharting the Food Miles Map,” by Kelly Rae Chi, James MacGregor, and Richard King, published by the International Institute for Environment and Development. James E. McWilliams’s vision of
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food, carbon footprint of, 230 food chains, 225–41; greenhouse gases from, 336 food industry: carbon footprint within, 427;shipments and logistics of, 24, 427 food miles, 230–33, 427; environmental impact of, 232 food production: increases in, 233–40; shortages in, 233–34 Ford, Henry, 179–80, 185, 188, 243, 366
The Rough Guide to England
by Rough Guides · 29 Mar 2018
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
by Nicola Twilley · 24 Jun 2024 · 428pp · 125,388 words
The Locavore's Dilemma
by Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu · 29 May 2012 · 329pp · 85,471 words
Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization
by Jeff Rubin · 19 May 2009 · 258pp · 83,303 words
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by Mark Hertsgaard · 15 Jan 2011 · 326pp · 48,727 words
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
by Matt Ridley · 17 May 2010 · 462pp · 150,129 words
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are Thekeys to Sustainability
by David Owen · 16 Sep 2009 · 313pp · 92,907 words
SuperFreakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner · 19 Oct 2009 · 302pp · 83,116 words
Meat: A Benign Extravagance
by Simon Fairlie · 14 Jun 2010 · 614pp · 176,458 words
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
by Fred Pearce · 30 Sep 2009 · 407pp · 121,458 words
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything
by Mike Berners-Lee · 12 May 2010 · 264pp · 71,821 words
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by Frank Trentmann · 1 Dec 2015 · 1,213pp · 376,284 words
The Allotment Chef: Home-Grown Recipes and Seasonal Stories
by Paul Merrett · 3 Sep 2014 · 269pp · 91,325 words
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words
Corduroy Mansions
by Alexander McCall Smith · 1 Jan 2009 · 395pp · 114,583 words
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker · 24 Sep 2012 · 1,351pp · 385,579 words
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
by Peter Singer and Jim Mason · 1 May 2006 · 400pp · 129,320 words
There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years
by Mike Berners-Lee · 27 Feb 2019
Lonely Planet Jamaica
by Lonely Planet
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by Rough Guides · 1 Aug 2019 · 1,994pp · 548,894 words
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
by Sathnam Sanghera · 28 Jan 2021 · 430pp · 111,038 words
Living in a Material World: The Commodity Connection
by Kevin Morrison · 15 Jul 2008 · 311pp · 17,232 words
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by Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Steve Tiesdell and Taner Oc · 15 Feb 2010 · 1,233pp · 239,800 words
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Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice
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Lonely Planet Iceland
by Lonely Planet
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by Tyler Cowen · 11 Apr 2012 · 364pp · 102,528 words
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by Naomi Klein · 15 Sep 2014 · 829pp · 229,566 words
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