Green Eating: By the NumbersPlanet Green – How to Go Green: Eating
30 %: Increase in both fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions caused from shipping a pound of apples from a farm in Iowa to a market in Washington, compared to shipping those apples to a local market in Iowa.
5: Number of countries the average U.S. meal comes from.
1500 to 2500: Number of miles food travels between farm and market. That’s 25 % farther than it traveled two decades ago.
958: Liters of water it takes to make one liter of orange juice; 958 liters of water for irrigation, 2 liters of fuel for tractors, water-pumping, pesticide spraying, and the occasional electric heater to ward off frost.
8000: Kilometers worth of travel required to gather all the ingredients to make strawberry yogurt in Germany.
Other Green Eating websites:
Eating Green Calculator
Local Harvest: find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.
Food Routes: a national non-profit dedicated to reintroducing Americans to their food - the seeds it grows from, the farmers who produce it, and the routes that carry it from the fields to our tables. Search for: Buy Fresh Buy Local Chapters
Local Eating for Global Change: the 100 mile diet.
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