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 Here is the design specification for short term food preservation for Pabal farmers as drawn up by an investigation team that included the University of Cambridge and Engineers Without Borders. Interestingly the need was very similar to what many before them had identified. from: Eng India (click image for full story online) They have [...] Yes its apparently true Fritos Lay introduced a compostable crisp bag – environmentally great! from: Sparkblog (click image for full story online) However, Fritos Lay has changed the bulk of their Sun Chips back to conventional packaging. This because sales were decreasing and they attributed this to consumer resistance to the noise the [...] This diagram presents the data that has been collected in a lot of work in the United Kingdom. It breaks down the CO2 production for the complete food chain. from: Teeside University (click image for full story online) The author, John Stanford, highlighted the following points from this diagram that put emmissions in context. [...] Its my feeling that you need to be! both from a point of view of “saving the world” and from the point of view of satisfying your customers moral desires. The introduction of the lifecycle concept in this argument is very important because a partial analysis can miss larger hidden differences if all impacts are [...] Over the years I have seen many attempts, and been involved in some myself, where there has been an attempt to introduce vegetable production in resource poor communities. This one – The African Market Garden (AMG) seems to address a number of the problems I saw and refreshingly provides some hard information on costs and [...] I have always thought that FAIRTRADE offered a marketing advantage to the small scale food manufacturer. After all the FAIRTRADE sales in the UK in 2009 were 800 million pounds! Now in the last few days we see 2 very different stories on FAIRTRADE chocolate, in the Australian Foodweek.
(click the image [...] I copy this post from Ecowordly, because I think all food processing industries should be investigating the potential of anaerobic digestion to convert waste into biogas to supplement their energy supply. It makes sense in lots of ways! SAB Miller, South African grown, second largest brewer in the world has introduced anaerobic digestion to [...] |
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