In other less whiny news today I was reading about a food movement known as locavore. The upshot being you try to source your meals with products grown or produced within a specified radius from your home. Sounds challenging but of course there's an application for it aptly named Locavore.
This is the scoop from time Magazine.
Buying and eating organic food isn't always as green as you might hope. If your organic potatoes are coming from the Peruvian Andes, for instance, those delicious causas are probably leaving a hefty carbon footprint. For truly local eating, the Locavore app detects where you are in the U.S., tells you what foods you can find locally grown and in season and plots local farmers' markets and other pertinent info in Google Maps. The app also connects you to extra info on Wikipedia and recipes using your green food product of choice.
Still sounds a little daunting to me but I am thinking of giving it a whirl not the whole enchilada but I thought it might be a fun experiment for produce in the summer.
