How Can We Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transporting Food?
I said yesterday that most greenhouse gas emissions in the food industry come from production (about 83%) and not from transportation (about 11%). This has consequences for proponents of the local food...
View ArticleChipotle To Increase Use of Local Produce
Chipotle is ramping up its use of locally grown ingredients by 10 million pounds. Already strongly focused on sourcing as naturally and sustainably raised ingredients as a large restaurant chain can...
View ArticleFarm-to-School Programs Catching on
The USDA estimates that over 2,500 U.S. communities now run farm-to-school projects, in 10,000 schools. The projects now span every state in the union, and reflect an increase from only 400...
View ArticleMoving Toward Local Food Distribution?
Derek Singleton at Software Advice called my attention to his thought-provoking new post on the future of U.S. food distribution. His idea seems to be that the U.S. distribution system has become very...
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