The food carbon calculator: How does the food you eat affect global warming?
January 15, 2010 | Length: 00:01:00
Helene York, vice president of strategic partnerships at Bon Appétit demos the company's Low Carbon Diet Calculator. The software tool allows users to calculate the carbon emissions created in everyday meals such as cheeseburgers, tacos and chicken sandwiches and then they can decide how their food choices impact the environment.
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3rd Feb 2010
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Posted by CoryShultis
31st May 2010
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RE: The food carbon calculator: How does the food you eat affect global warming?
Why not change the name of this site to New Age Drivel! Get a life people!
Posted by winddrift03
18th Jan 2010
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Don't believe this propagana!!!
Global Warming has been proven to be a farce!!! Just use that computer of yours to RESEARCH it!
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WATCH IT!!! You'll get a REAL education!
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WATCH IT!!! You'll get a REAL education!
Posted by btljooz
18th Jan 2010
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How the food we eat?
How clean must America's air have to be to make a difference to the rest of the worlds air?
Posted by Otis C
18th Jan 2010
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Typical ...
Just another ultra-consevative type using questionable logic to scare us into acting their way.
Posted by ddferrari
18th Jan 2010
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I think all the ultra liberal Al Gore goofballs have to much time on their hands.
Posted by partman1969@...
19th Jan 2010
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But does it...
take into account the carbon captured by the plants grown for the food?
I see a lot of carbon being sucked up by those fields of corn planted every year for biofuel.
At least in my part of the country the farmers plow under the stalks or collect them and grind them up for composting after the corn is harvested.
Of course composting releases methane, a powerful global warming gas. Just don't try to tell that to the green police who advocate it.
I see a lot of carbon being sucked up by those fields of corn planted every year for biofuel.
At least in my part of the country the farmers plow under the stalks or collect them and grind them up for composting after the corn is harvested.
Of course composting releases methane, a powerful global warming gas. Just don't try to tell that to the green police who advocate it.
Posted by Hates Idiots
19th Jan 2010
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the right wing hate machine swings into action - ANYTHING that shows
that the high consumption crap on the earth way they choose to live has
deleterious consequences for the rest of life must be a lie. Of course,
it's a conspiracy to make you change. Put down the Hummer - lift your
snout out of the trough and back away slow.
that the high consumption crap on the earth way they choose to live has
deleterious consequences for the rest of life must be a lie. Of course,
it's a conspiracy to make you change. Put down the Hummer - lift your
snout out of the trough and back away slow.
Posted by reowens3
19th Jan 2010
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Needs Renamed, Retooled, & Recalibrated to Specific Local Areas
Not a bad idea but needs to be renamed and recalibrated to specified local areas.
Needs retooled to help the user in reducing emissions & pollutants while showing how to eat at lower trophic levels. Also, gauge it to support local sources and producers, wherever that may be, so that distribution factors are considered. Otherwise it seems too vague and wil invite criticism.
Needs retooled to help the user in reducing emissions & pollutants while showing how to eat at lower trophic levels. Also, gauge it to support local sources and producers, wherever that may be, so that distribution factors are considered. Otherwise it seems too vague and wil invite criticism.
Posted by donnydo77@...
20th Jan 2010
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Right wing hate machine?
Wow. The church of Global Warming hates heritics.
All I did was ask why Global Warming scientists never look at the whole picture.
With the EPA now calling CO2 a pollutant I ask, when will we all need to wear filters to cleanup the CO2 we exhale?
I'll bet the CO2 from a billion people exceeds that from a million cars.
All I did was ask why Global Warming scientists never look at the whole picture.
With the EPA now calling CO2 a pollutant I ask, when will we all need to wear filters to cleanup the CO2 we exhale?
I'll bet the CO2 from a billion people exceeds that from a million cars.
Posted by Hates Idiots
21st Jan 2010
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RE: The food carbon calculator: How does the food you eat affect global warming?
Hates Idiots states: "I'll bet the CO2 from a billion people exceeds that from a million cars."
If he is correct, then maybe all we need to do is reduce China's overcrowded population. This will serve two functions - 1) Reduce the CO2 that those people exhale, and 2) Reduce their need for fossil fuels for cars, electricity, etc.
If he is correct, then maybe all we need to do is reduce China's overcrowded population. This will serve two functions - 1) Reduce the CO2 that those people exhale, and 2) Reduce their need for fossil fuels for cars, electricity, etc.
Posted by JTF243@...
2nd Feb 2010
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RE: The food carbon calculator: How does the food you eat affect global warming?
The CO2 that you exhale and the CO2 that comes from burning biofuel is from carbon that is already in the carbon cycle. It was absorbed from the atmosphere in the process of the plant growing and gets released again when you or another animal eats it so the net increase of CO2 from your breathing is zero. Carbon from fossil fuels is carbon that has been sequestered from the carbon cycle for (in most cases) 100's of millions of years so burning it increases the total carbon in the carbon cycle.
Oxygen is necessary for life but breathing a 100% oxygen atmosphere at normal pressures for any length of time is toxic. Same thing for CO2, not enough is not good but too much is also not good.
Oxygen is necessary for life but breathing a 100% oxygen atmosphere at normal pressures for any length of time is toxic. Same thing for CO2, not enough is not good but too much is also not good.
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3rd Feb 2010
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Posted by CoryShultis
31st May 2010
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>> How does the food you eat affect global warming and your carbon footprint?
>> Let's take a popular lunch item, a cheeseburger. This is a four-ounce burger on a bun with some cheese. Drag and drop it into the skillet and you can see that the thermometer on the right rises to almost 3,000 carbon points, and it tells you that this is a very high carbon food. By contrast, let's take a grilled chicken sandwich. And it is less than one-fifth the intensity. So if you wanna make a choice, you've got two really great tasting options in front of you, a grilled chicken sandwich is going to be one-fifth the intensity of a cheeseburger.
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