ronmclinden on "Live Closer to Home"

ronmclinden — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:00:15 +0000

There's a lot of GHG emissions associated with how far we travel -- also what modes we choose and how fast we go, of course.

There's also a lot of transportation-related GHG emissions wrapped up in everything that we purchase.

Take a look at this article, "Living Closer to Home," on the Sierra Club website:

http://missouri.sierraclub.org/thb/conservation/consumption/live-closer-to-home.html

A public awareness campaign about the GHG emissions and other costs of going farther than we have to go -- and buying products from unnecessarily far-off places -- would have positive benefits.

The purchasing part could be presented as "buy local" and most people would see it as an economic development campaign instead of climate protection -- and that's not bad.

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ronmclinden on "Live Closer to Home"