What is the Carbon Footprint of Your Favorite Wine?

I was sent a message from Kim to check out the Mixx thread about the post Wine and The Ecosystem on Nature.org. Check out the post to find some great articles about the environmental concerns facing the wine industry. This post reminded me of the August environmental post which had a reference to a Treehugger article about boxed wines which according to the article, is more environmentally friendly because the materials used for boxed wines are so much lighter than bottles. I am not exactly sure how many different wines are available in the boxed form, but I am guessing we should be seeing a greater variety as the industry gains respectability. Maybe Gary over at Wine Library TV will do a boxed wine video to let us know if any quality boxed wines are available.

If boxed wine isn’t something you are willing to try, try buying wines that are made locally instead of buying the imports which must be transported over a long distances. For a few more tip on buying more environmentally friendly wines, check out he article “What’s your wines carbon footprint?”

How does your favorite wine stack up?

Other Environmental Info

Kim also has a post that poses the old question Am I my brothers keeper?  With the brother being the Earth.

Wow, I just found out about William Yuan, a twelve year old inventor who invented a new type of solar cell that absorbs 500 times the amount of energy current cells absorb. Wow…that is some kid.

From the http://www.onehundredmonths.org/ newsletter, came this creative video Wake Up, “Freak Out – then Get a Grip” , which I found to be a bit depressing, however its ending has a hopeful message.

Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo.

I am putting a link to a video by the BBC ‘Earth: The Climate Wars’ which I have not yet watched, but intend to when I get a moment.

Environmental pages From Stumbleupon:

What do you think about building vertical farms or skyscraper farms?

An article about the uses of Hemp…I always new it was a groovy product, but who new how truly useful it could be.

How about you, got any environmental news to share?

Written by Pixelhead on October 10th, 2008 with 7 comments.
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