With celebrity chefs telling tv viewers to buy local food as a way of being more sustainable thank goodness for someone debunking one of the myths.
A Lincoln University Professor Caroline Saunders found that lamb raised in New Zealand and shipped 17,840 km (11,000 miles) to England produced 688 kilograms of carbon-dioxide emissions per tonne, about a fourth the amount produced by British lamb. This is partly because pastures in New Zealand require less fertilizer than most English grazing land. Read more about this in www.nzherald.co.nz Chris Barton on Homegrown Dilemma. So much for sustainable. If people are really concerned about their impact on the environment, try driving less! Driving a car not only contimates the air and waterways (from brake material and dust being left on the road eveyr time one brakes – then when it rains this goes into our waterways poisoning them) but the petrol used to power our cars is a precious resource, has to shipped here, refined, and then once in our cars pollutes the air adding to our carbon foot print. Think about whether you need to drive every journey. Car share members do this. Car share members all over the world drive less, exercise more and save money! Better still, car share research all over the world reports that every car share vehicle is taking up to 20 privately owned cars off the road, thereby contributing to a more sustainable planet. Find out more about NZ’s first car share company, cityhop. Cityhop car share cars are eco-friendly. We’ve done the research for you and found cars that are not only small and efficient but use very litte petrol. Find out more on our website.
Tags: car share, cars by the hour., Cityhop, environmentally friendly, environmentally friendly cars, sharing a car
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