Friday Frites

TOWNHALL
Focus the Nation is using community organizing tactics to hold townhalls on clean energy. Pretty interesting.

MOOOO-VE: Just by how much does your dairy move ?

According to a report by WorldWatch Institute: The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture famously found that US food travelled an average of 1,518 miles (about 2,400 kilometers) from gate to plate. Yet looking at local markets, such as Iowa, they concluded locally sourced food travelled an average of just 44.6 miles (72 kilometers). They calculated that the” conventional food distribution system used 4 to 17 times more fuel and emitted 5 to 17 times more CO2 than the local and regional (the latter of which roughly meant Iowa-wide) systems.”

Charge your phone using Waste Heat



At Last!
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday formally declared carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases to be pollutants that threaten public health and welfare, setting in motion a process that for the first time in the United States will regulate the gases blamed for global warming.