Credit where credit’s due to the Government for launching its CO2 calculator. It’s too early to judge how good it is, but we hope it helps people understand how the way they live impacts the environment.
Here at Riverford Organic Vegetables we are 7 months into our own carbon footprinting exercise where we have secured the help of Exeter University to look at every aspect of our veg boxes and it is already resulting in good changes.
Follow this blog from time to time to hear how we are getting on. Guy Watson has already written a great piece explaining what the project is about and what we hope to achieve here
We can’t promise not to rant occasionally – particularly when our greenwash-ometer goes mad. So watch out some of you supermarkets, smokescreen if you will – you won’t fool us.
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trudi murray // June 26, 2007 at 1:52 pm |
We did a mini sustainability audit of our own shopping habits in our family, looking at what we bought to eat,where we bought it and how it was packaged. Then thinking about which of that packaging we could recycle, or not. As a result of that, we decided not to buy or eat certain things anymore. For example, we used to buy two pots of Riverford yoghurt a week. That’s a lot of empty, sturdy, plastic pots! So, I took all the empty pots to school so they could keep pencils in them. Then I learnt how to make yoghurt myself. (Sorry, Riverford). But it’s quite easy, after a bit of trial and error.
I agree that sustainabilty is a large and complicated issue but I really believe that little things, done on a household level, can make a difference.
alwyn & eric ellis - thurston, // June 26, 2007 at 3:09 pm |
its about time we had access to organic meat- IF ITS AS GOOD AS THE VEG. & SALAD IT WILL DO WELL-[FINGERS CROSSED ]
Queens Park Pete // June 28, 2007 at 5:11 pm |
One example of supermarket greenwash was this week’s story of the local organic Welsh carrots, sold in Welsh supermarkets as low food mile carrots even though packing “rules” meant they had to travel all the way to Peterborough for polishing and grading before they went to Bristol for final packing and then back to west Wales to be sold as local veg!