A Californian
orange has traveled over 12,800 kms to get to you - that's a lot of food
miles!
This is typical of
much produce in our globalised food production system. Every mile/kilometre
our food travels is likely to mean greater greenhouse gas emissions.
The 100 Mile diet has taken off in many places around the world, with
people experimenting with sourcing their food from within an 100 mile
(160km) radius from where they live.
As part of the Ethical Consumer Group, various households around Melbourne
took on a week's trial in the first week of December 2008. Find out more
about our plans, progress and discoveries by following the links below.
We encourage your group or household to gather with others and take on an 100 Mile Trial of your own. Let us know if you do and we'll post up your story.
30th
November – 6th December, 2008
Week of the Trial
Blog
- how was it?
Suppliers - where we got what!
Pre-Trial
Discoveries
Our Processes & 'Rules'
Resources
Organic Directory with Google Maps
Recipes
Post-Trial
Sustainable Living Festival 2009 talk
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