{"id":33,"date":"2013-07-11T17:01:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gcharris\/?p=33"},"modified":"2013-07-11T23:28:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T06:28:27","slug":"reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gcharris\/2013\/07\/11\/reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I wasn&#8217;t trying to be particularly green today. In fact I tried to choose foods that I felt were the typical types of things a busy North American would buy.<\/li>\n<li>In general I don&#8217;t really have any idea where most of my food comes from.<\/li>\n<li>Packaging was a part of oil consumption of my food. I tended to eat a lot of foods today that were packaged in a way that likely consumed fossil fuels during their production.<\/li>\n<li>Ingredients in even my most innocuous items for the day were wildly separated geographically.\u00a0 I literally consumed items produced in all areas of the planet.<\/li>\n<li>There was a surprising lack of information on products and their websites as to where exactly the foods and their ingredients exactly came from. I found myself guessing a lot about where items originated.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s quite hard to pin down an exact carbon foodprint of your food use unless you only buy locally produced food. There are many factors which I felt difficult to fully include in my assessment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>http:\/\/www.klamathsustainablecommunities.org\/articles\/transp\/UKfreightTransportCO2Emissions.pdf<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t trying to be particularly green today. In fact I tried to choose foods that I felt were the typical types of things a busy North American would buy. In general I don&#8217;t really have any idea where most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gcharris\/2013\/07\/11\/reflections\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gcharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gcharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gcharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gcharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gcharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gcharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gcharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gcharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gcharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gcharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}