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Give up flying! <br>
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I used to fly a lot. People were always wanting me to come and talk
about the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, which was the first food coop
in the US to only sell locally grown and made food and non-food
items, and how they could replicate our success. But I found
myself questioning my assumptions. Why did I think I was so
important that it was worth the damage that flying causes to the
biosphere for me to go somewhere and talk about the importance of
growing a local food system? So I just decided to quit flying. I
am not saying that I will never ever fly again, but it has been
several years since my last flight, and i have nothing on the
horizon. If I can't get there by car, bus, or train, I'm not
going. Of all the sustainability-oriented developments in my life,
giving up flying has been the easiest -- once I got over my sense of
personal importance and entitlement. <br>
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As for rural versus urban, I think that in terms of per capita
resource use, cities win the prize. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/greenest_place_in_the_us_its_not_where_you_think/2203/">http://e360.yale.edu/feature/greenest_place_in_the_us_its_not_where_you_think/2203/</a>
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Bob Waldrop<br>
Oklahoma City<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/1/2014 11:56 AM, Gennaro
Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn wrote:<br>
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type="cite">I work full time to help clients live a greener life.
And then I fly from NYC to the Dominican Republic to holiday.
Which basically blows all my green credits to hell in jet fuel.
What to do. <span></span><br>
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On Monday, December 1, 2014, <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div>Very good points with regards to location.
Another part of that is the lifestyle of the
occupants. If you are in a rural location, work
at home and produce most your own food, that green
field location can indeed be green. Also, that
reduced density reduces the problems of runoff,
allows natural vegetation cooling and allows the
diverse natural ecology to manage the adjacent
forest from which we can harvest meat and forage
food from. However, the same location where you
are commuting, not so much. Reciprocally, if you
are in an urban location such a Brooklyn, you are
in a setting that has no natural ecology.
Therefore, all products need to be brought to
you. Stability must be maintained by human
managed systems such as sewers, utility water,
storm drains (very rapid runoff), roads, police,
et. There is also the heat island affect of
concrete without vegetation. These footprints
have to enter to equation.</div>
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