U.S. residents have a heckuva hard time finding a local pineapple (Hawaiians respectfully excluded, of course). But now you can nosh your tropical fruit with less guilt; Dole Food has pledged to offset 100 percent of the CO2 emissions that come from growing bananas and pineapples in Costa Rica. Working with government agencies, the company plans to carbon-neutralize its entire supply chain, from growing the fruit to packing, transporting, and distributing it in North America and Europe. And those emissions are far from insignificant: Dole ships some 31 million boxes of bananas and 13 million boxes of pineapples annually from Costa Rica, which aims to be a carbon-neutral country by 2021.
source: Environmental Finance
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coffeemuses Posted 10:17 am
20 Aug 2007
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mmmoongoddess Posted 4:25 am
21 Aug 2007
This just looks at what comes out the tail pipe and not what goes into the engine!
Buy Local, in season, and, where possible, within economic realities, organic. N. Americans have been so spoilt by the ability to purchase things from anywhere at any time. We can use our energy = money in far better ways than by purchasing tropical goodies from far away. They're great as a treat, but definitely detrimental when they become a mainstay and are seen as "normal" table fare.
Perhaps we should be shipping icebergs to hell?! Make that carbon neutral, eh?
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Biodiversivist Posted 6:41 am
21 Aug 2007
As a tropical country, it looks like the best thing it could do is add to its eco-tourism forests.
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
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