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Local, organic, fair trade... Consumers looking for a sustainable diet face a lot of choices and recently, another one has been added to the list: low-carbon. But it turns out reducing your meal's carbon footprint isn't so easy.
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Local, organic, fair trade... Consumers looking for a sustainable diet face a lot of choices and recently, another one has been added to the list: low-carbon. But it turns out reducing your meal's carbon footprint isn't so easy.
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Aired twice morning of June 13, 2008
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(Bring up farmer?s market background noise)
Jessica Prentice is right at home wandering the produce stalls at the Thursday Farmer?s Market in Berkeley.
PRENTICE: How are you Karen? Good. Say hi to Ben for me. This is Lucero Farm. These folks grow out in Lodi and I?ve been out to see their farm.
A few years ago, Prentice and her friends coined the term ?locavore,? informally naming consumers who focus their diets on local foods. Since then, the word has been popping up everywhere.
PRENTICE: It?s crazy, it?s crazy. It was evidently the answer to a question on ?Who Wants to be a Millionaire?? I dunno, it was obviously a movement or an approach to eating that was in search of a name.
At first, Prentice began eating locally to support organic food and local farmers. She has since learned that food production has a big impact on global warming.
PRENTICE: We will leave some ki...
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Local, organic, fair trade...Consumers looking for a sustainable diet face a lot of choices. Now another one has been added to the list: low- carbon. But it turns out that reducing your meal?s carbon footprint isn?t so easy. From KQED in San Francisco, Lauren Sommer has more.
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