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  • Drink beer - mostly local

    Great story here about organic beers.

    I agree with the first commenter. I grew up in Portland, Maine, and like Peak Organic. Shipyard Brewing makes my favorite beer, though they're not explicitly organic.

    In writing an article recently about the search for sustainable beer, I heard a lot of brewers say that the best advice was not to drink organic, but to drink local. In part because the organic hops and barley market, though growing, is still relatively small, though primarily because emissions from transportation, and bottling, loom large in a beer's carbon life cycle.

    If anyone's interested, I just wrote a posted a story about the emissions from transporting beer. You can find it here:

    http://www.onearth.org/node/807

    Bottoms up,
    BenOn A tasting of five fall-friendly organic dark brews posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago 4 Responses

  • Gore makes energy mainstream

    I'm an enviro blogger over at On Earth, who attended  Gore's announcement. I live blogged it here.

    My sense is that while Gore's proposal may not be successfully implemented within ten years, I hope he may be successful at doing something else: making climate change a mainstream American concern.

    Polls show that while climate change has emerged as Americans number one environmental concern, it still lags behind issues like Medicare and Social Security.

    What Gore was proposing was that a solution to climate change will help solve many mainstream American issues: the economy, national security, health.

    So much of the coverage has focused narrowly on the goal of 2018. But it seems to me that there's a much larger social motivation driving Gore's announcement.

    I've written more about it here.

    Thanks,
    Ben

    Contributor, On Earth magazineOn Bloggers weigh Gore's plan in advance of 'Meet the Press' posted 1 year, 4 months ago 11 Responses

  • An historic speech.

    I think this was an historic speech. The point not only about energy, and climate, but to connect these issues to mainstream social issues - a connection many Americans have yet to make.

    http://tinyurl.com/6pps3r

    The call was beyond energy, and meant to say: by addressing climate change we can address a series of social, economic and security issues simultaneously.

    Climate is the linchpin, according to Gore.

    Best,
    BenOn Al Gore details plan for exclusively carbon-free electricity in U.S. by 2018 posted 1 year, 4 months ago 21 Responses