100 Mile Diet

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Local Eating for Global Change
A Year of Local Eating experiment born on the first day of spring in 2005. Eating only food grown and produced within a 100-Mile radius.

What has me interested in this book? What caught my attention? What places importance?

I'm half-vegetarian (re: I don't eat beef, does that count?). The bike's cute :) I really like the tree at the end of the road!

However, it's none of that, it's something else...

It wasn't the word diet. No way! What's that?! It wasn't 100-Mile. Are you kidding?! You'd never last on a diet. It wasn't a year. 'Cause Time is short enough. It was local eating.

YES! Local Eating! An idea that's environmentally responsible and promotes sustainability...

"The average American meal (and we assumed the average Canadian meal is similar), according to World Watch, reports that the ingredients typically travel between 2,500 and 4,000 kilometers, a 25 percent increase from 1980, and has attracted responses from as far away as Norway, France and Australia.

This average meal uses up to 17 times more petroleum products and increases carbon dioxides emissions by the same amount compared to an entirely local meal."

Links:
BC couple 'eats locally, thinks globally'
CTV.ca News
100 Mile Diet Book
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Earth Day 2007

Celebrated every April 22, Earth Day is the largest, most celebrated environmental event worldwide... read more

"Take the Next Step"
Find out about Events, Action Guides, School Kits, Merchandise, Tree Planting Festivals and how to get involved.

They have coffee :)

"Help the Environment: One Cup at a Time"
Earth Day Canada and Merchants of Green Coffee have teamed up to bring you Earth Day Coffee, a medium-dark blend of three distinctive Fair Trade and organic Arabica beans from Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America. Buying Earth Day Coffee guarantees you the freshest, best-tasting coffee, while at the same time supporting organic agriculture.