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  RE: Correction Comment: On Miles and Footprints...

  I apologize, this is a correction to a comment I posted earlier On Miles and Footprints.  Besides the formatting issues, I left out the kicker - and am rightfully ashamed!    

  While I'm at it, here's a more fitting title -thanks!

  On Carbon Footprints and Energy Consumption...

  Similar to the logic behind much conversation about "miles" or "footprints" here's an interesting fact I recently learned in regards to diet drinks.  

  According to Ernest Schusky, an anthropologist and author of "Culture and Agriculture: An Ecological Introduction to Traditional and Modern Farming Systems, it takes "approximately 2,200 calories of energy to produce a 12-ounce can of diet soda" consisting of just 'one' calorie.*  

  22,000 calories in to get 1 calorie out - our bodies only require 2,500 per day on average to function properly (there's a twisted irony in that too).  

  I can't help but think about what the amount of calories I use per day means in sustainable terms.  

  *cited in "Meeting the Agricultural Challenges of the 21st Century With a Little Help From Liberty Hyde Bailey" by Fred Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, 2007.On Umbra on diet soda posted 1 year, 3 months ago 13 Responses

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  On "miles" and "footprints"

  Similar to the logic behind much conversation about â€oemiles” and â€oefootprints” hereâ€^TMs another way of viewing the consumption of diet sodas.  According to Ernest Schusky, an anthropologist and author of Culture and Agriculture: An Ecological Introduction to Traditional and Modern Farming Systems, it takes "approximately 2,200 calories of energy to produce a single can of diet soda.”      

  - cited in â€oeMeeting the Agricultural Challenges of the 21st Century With a Little Help From Liberty Hyde Bailey” by Fred Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University.
  On Umbra on diet soda posted 1 year, 3 months ago 13 Responses