How green is your bottle of red?
What is the greener option, in terms of carbon footprint, for a hypothetical wine-drinking citizen of Ohio: a California merlot from Napa county, a cheap Australian bottle of Yellow Tail shiraz, or a French bordeaux?
Also linked in the article, is this paper:
Red, White, and "Green": The Cost of Carbon in the Global Wine Trade(PDF)
We gave Livia and Tifou some green wine for their wedding. Mmmmm...
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ReplyDeleteI'll ask you for the scoop Saturday.
I just let sites put cookies on my computer. I'm kind of cookie slutty that way. I suppose every once and a while I clean them out.
ReplyDeleteI feel like a lone voice in the wilderness here, but measuring the "carbon footprint" of a wine drinker in Ohio really seems like a load of nonsense.
ReplyDeleteI mean, he's one guy--what about all the other Ohioans?
I love my Carbon Footprint!
ReplyDeleteI go out of the way to make my carbon footprint as large as possible. I have to make up for all the carbon credits ALGORE is selling.
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Were is the studdy on box wine?
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