Haven’t had time to write much lately. Looking after our lovely little baby takes up most of the time I am not working. As a result I have decided to change the way I am using the blog. I going to be using it more like my paper journal. Essentially as a jotter for rough ideas.
As a result, the clarity of my writing may deteriorate. Not that it was all that clear to start with.
I came across an interesting article from the Guardian today. Reporting on how food miles are not always an accurate representation of carbon emissions. (I orgionaly found the link to the article at Meta Filter.)
The Guardian article explores how it can be more efficient to buy food that has a lot of food miles if the production methods are less energy intensive than if the food was produced with only a few food miles but used a lot of energy to be produced.
The article also points out that beans cooked at home can produce more carbon emissions than beans cooked in a factory because the energy used at home is far less efficient than that used in the factory. These are both valid arguments and ones that I was thinking of exploring.
The article even looks at a possible solution. Presenting the full carbon costs of the product on the packaging. It continues to explain how even this information would be skewed due to the method used to cook the produce. However this does not seem so complicated to me. Simply provide a base carbon cost and a carbon cost with an average that includes cooking.
What really bugs me about the article though, is that, the suggested solution is being run by a supermarket rather than an independent body. The idea that a supermarket can create a fair system that represents carbon emissions is ridiculous. It is simply not in their interest to do so. It is in their interest to be seen to be doing something about environmental issues, and so representing carbon costs on their packaging. But how accurate are these figures. It has to be an independent body that creates them if they are to be accurate.
Also - does the carbon cost on the tin include the supermarkets carbon costs as opposed to buying the food from a local supplier?
I have been wondering if it is wise to post so much personal history on the web, after all it is here for posterity.
Then I came across this.
I’ve also been a bit too attached to getting the personal history finished before I write all the other crazy ideas in my head. But even though I’ve only got one post to go, it is taking too long.
I’ve got two of my Spiral Dynamics certification clients to see this weekend so I am not going to have a great deal of time to update the site. It’s frustrating, my replacement at Green Dot Guides starts on the 1st of May, then there will be a handover period before I have much extra time, but my head is bursting with ideas. I’m not even managing to write rough notes on them all. To boot, I am burnt out from two very demanding years as a web site development manager.To sum up I am tired but not sleeping great. Sigh. I am just going to start posting ideas as they come up. They will be a little rough for now, but never mind.
Things I am planning/doing with the site.
Things I am doing off the web site.
After many years not posting on the web I have decided to once again rejoin the fray. Last time I was here blogs had only just been invented and most of my posts were on various forums, it’s been a while.