{"id":405,"date":"2012-04-12T17:16:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T17:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2012-04-12T17:21:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T17:21:52","slug":"carbon-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Carbon footprint?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from the Sierra Club:<\/p>\n<p>DON&#8217;T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraclub.org\/sierra\/201107\/images\/GR_CarbonFootprint.jpg\" alt=\"carbon footprint\" width=\"560\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Does eating bananas make you feel guilty? After all, they had to travel thousands of miles to reach your breakfast cereal. But the carbon footprint of a banana is only one-fifth that of a pint of imported beer. How about using plastic bags? It turns out that a paper bag has a carbon footprint two to four times larger than that of its plastic counterpart. These are among the surprising conclusions of Mike Berners-Lee&#8217;s lively How Bad Are Bananas? (Greystone, 2011), which refreshingly fesses up to the &#8220;impossibly complex&#8221; fuzziness involved in calculating climate impact. A true life cycle analysis includes not only an item&#8217;s manufacture and transportation but also everything from the extraction of raw materials to a prorated share of the company CEO&#8217;s mansion. Berners-Lee makes a stab at precise numbers but is mostly concerned with &#8220;trying to get the orders of magnitude clear,&#8221; as shown below. \u2014Paul Rauber<\/p>\n<p>E. Fudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Sierra Club: DON&#8217;T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF Does eating bananas make you feel guilty? After all, they had to travel thousands of miles to reach your breakfast cereal. But the carbon footprint of a banana is only one-fifth that of a pint of imported beer. How about using plastic bags? It turns out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,127,102,73,28,54,8],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carbon-impact","tag-climate-change","tag-energy","tag-food","tag-science","tag-transportation","tag-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenbelief.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}