[Vision2020] Inconvenient Truth -- What WE gonna do

[Philip Cook]

Nils, Joe, et al.:

Here's an interesting analysis of alternative transportation AND diet.

http://bicycleuniverse.info/transpo/beef.html

PC

> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:26:20 -0700
> From: Nils Peterson <nils_peterson at wsu.edu>
> Subject: [Vision2020] Inconvenient Truth -- What WE gonna do
 
> Carbon neutral is an interesting concept, but knowing if something is carbon
> neutral is hard, and, given that most things include a transportation
> element, its going to be hard to be neutral.
> 
> Megan's veggie idea, as subsequently modified by other suggestions is one
> that resonates for me -- eat lower on the carbon input chain, which means
> eat local. That's something I can work on.

> From: Joe Campbell <joekc at adelphia.net>
 
> I think the most important thing that we can do as a community is increase and encourage alternative forms of transportation. I don't have any answers but I do have some more detailed questions.