fatvegan

A few different people seem to have done research on the "full" environmental costs of some of our green solutions are. I've often wondered how much food we need to eat to replace the energy consumed walking somewhere instead of driving. It seems that if you eat beef, you're better off driving to the shops. Although that point is tells you more about the impact of cattle than about the inefficiency of walking. If you're purely vegan then walking will be a much better option (by my own calculations), because wheat takes so much less energy to grow per calorie.

The other one was that installing an eco-friendly light-bulb for a year saves the same energy as you'd lose buying two bags of imported fruit and vegetables. Which, again, probably says more about imported food than about good light bulbs.

Three-quarters of supermarket energy expenditure goes to keeping stuff cold. I wonder what cold things I could take out of my diet. Not-burgers? No. Camembert? Definitely not.