"Can you imagine the nightmare if every time you got hungry you needed to travel to the other side of the planet before you could sit down to eat?" asks author David de Rothschild in The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook. "As absurd as this sounds, we're not bothered by the fact that most of our food has to make this same journey to get to us."
In fact, every meal you eat typically travels 22,000 miles for you to buy it in the store. You know what that means to climate change -- lots of greenhouse gas emissions created simply because of our insistence on access to our favorite foods regardless of the season.
Instead of blindly buying whatever food strikes your fancy, try instead Essential Skill #29:
Count your food miles.
Find out what grows close to home. A great place to start is LocalHarvest.org where you can search for markets, restaurants and grocery stores that sell locally-produced foods. You'll not only be saving on greenhouse gas-emitting transporation, but also getting far fresher produce that is richer in vitamins and taste.
As de Rothschild points out, "Why should your food have more frequent-traveler miles than you?"
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We typically get our produce at Sprouts, but most of it is shipped in from other states and countries. There's a new Fresh & Easy opening up in the neighborhood, so we'll be checking that out to see if they cater more to locally-produced fruit and veggies. If not, we're going to have to dig deeper into the community for easier access to local farmers' goods.
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