As for food transportation, it looks to me that orgnized home delivery tours (may be internet purchases) have the potential to be more transporation efficient than everyone round-trip'ing to the supermarket (unless it is on work-home path).
If you go to google Defra and "food mile" you'll find a recent report showing that "food miles" are an inadequate indicator.
It's obvious that food miles is not the right unit since you need to take transporation mode and production inputs into account.
NZ study of the topic (PDF), seems to conclude that for some products it's vastly more energy-efficient to ship them to UK from NZ than to produce them in the UK.
Bliss!!
Now, I like this report, but would there be any interest here to do an audit of these findings? Are there elements missing, can we extend the given framework for other products?
Conscious man, conscious!
In the kiwi-case, I was thinking of an alternative kiwi produced somewhere closer to the Netherlands than NZ (which is probably Everywhere Else). That would make the description perhaps: less un-sustainable.
it's about having a sense of proportion, isn't it? ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Too bad that they didn't take kiwis as example...
But I like the set-up, very bookkeepish. It looks superior to considering just foodmiles as metric.
