Blogs & Ecology

Believe it or not but academic research published in the highly reputable Springer journal Human Ecology suggests Americans eat less to combat global warming.

Here in Lawrence, KS, we have a special restaurant called Local Burger that serves local, organic, and natural fast food - burgers, hot dogs, fries, milkshakes. Local Burger founder, Hilary Brown, and her restaurant have been featured by Outside, Gourmet, Bon Appetite, Vanity Fair, the Sundance Channel, Sprig.com, and elsewhere. Local Burger is loved by people and critics alike, including myself, for its unique business model.

A Canadian company called Ruth's Hemp Foods last Monday became the first to introduce a hemp based cereal product on the US market. Hemp, a variety of the cannabis plant, is somewhat controversial in the US, but the lobby to get the plant legalized has booked several successes recently. Not least because hemp is believed to be a godsent in the battle against global warming.

Ever thought about how a visit to a restaurant impacts your carbon footprint? Recent research shows that food served in over 40 London restaurants is not just slightly CO2 intensive, but that in many cases restaurant food produces over 100 times more CO2 than locally bought ingredients.

Much more than food will be at stake at next Thursday's vote in the EU parliament for a resolution on food prices. Food shortages in the Third World are increasingly linked with the EU's biofuel crops, that's why.