So -- you're an average, eco-conscious resident of the Boston-to-Washington megacity corridor, and you're worried about food miles: the distance your edibles are transported in greenhouse gas-belching glory to arrive on your plate. You act by ignoring the pile of New Zealand Gala apples at the greengrocer in favor of locally grown Macintoshes, and buying rounds of artisanal Vermont blue at the weekly greenmarket instead of bricks of mystery cheddar at the supermarket.
But you're washing it down with a glass of wine from France.
How much carbon dioxide was generated moving that bottle from Europe to you? Is giving up Old World vintages for North American wines the only option? Maybe not: Tyler Colman, aka "Dr. Vino," writes to us that on the topic of the carbon footprint of wine, "We have several findings about packaging, transportation and winemaking...I thought you would be particularly interested in our finding that for consumers in the East Coast (all the way to Western Ohio), the same weight bottle of wine from Bordeaux has a smaller carbon footprint than wine trucked in from California thanks to the efficiencies of container shipping." Read all about it here.
(Thanks, Tyler!)
