What is the Carbon Footprint of Your Favorite Wine?

Posted by Pixelhead

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 Liberty School Cab 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 6 comments.
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Nicole Price
#1. October 11th, 2008, at 2:41 PM.

Skyscraper farms? Why do we need to reinvent the wheel?

BBC’s Earth the climate war is an absorbing film like almost all BBCs films are. I am a great fan of BBC. They are perhaps better in some ways than the National Geographic Channel.

Hemp has been a topic that has been flogged so much but, vested interests will simply not allow it to reach its potential.

Wayne John
#2. October 11th, 2008, at 4:21 PM.

The thing about hemp that is truly curious is how uneducated people react to having it be the ‘one’ true plant that can do so much good for us. But we cannot grow it, even though certain strains wouldn’t even get Mickey Mouse high.

I think we’re more intelligent than that, let the farmers grow their hemp!

John Walters
#3. October 13th, 2008, at 5:55 PM.

I’m glad that even though you’ve changed your blog name you are continuing to write posts which are related to current day topics such as the environment.

Great post.

John

kouji
#4. October 14th, 2008, at 1:26 PM.

i find the idea of vertical farms interesting. they allow produce to be grown much closer to or within cities. if set up properly, they can be self-sustaining, with minimal waste. and they free up land for other use.

but then again, as with many things, the devil’s in the details.

suresh
#5. October 15th, 2008, at 9:48 PM.

Nice article…I am still realizing what we could do in our daily lives that could significantly reduce the carbon footprint

Virginia Lawyer. Andrew.
#6. October 18th, 2008, at 12:01 AM.

The boxed wine issue fascinates me. I had no idea that simply using a box instead of a bottle could save so many environmental resources. As you point out, a huge on is simply the weight of a bottle vs. a box. Then there’s the issue that boxes can easily compact for recycling, etc. Very cool way to help the environment.

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