[Peakoil] Food Matters Workshop (Alex Pollard)

[Ben Davies]

Hi all,

Related to the food footprint + waste front:

The ANU ran a tour of the Canberra Tip yesterday. According the the tour guide, the dump will reach full capacity in a mere 6 years time. Compared to 30 years ago, there is now an artificial hill of rubbish and dirt (methane gas is tapped as an energy source). Short of building a new dump somewhere in the ACT, I can imagine a short term solution (ala Sydney) and dumping rubbish in the Woodlawn mine site:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/01/1091298577063.html

Naturally you've got transport energy use, emissions etc from having to drag tons of waste the 75km or so to the mine site:
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=d&saddr=canberra&daddr=-35.064779,149.572592&hl=en&geocode=&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=14&sll=-35.077634,149.588127&sspn=0.050714,0.105658&ie=UTF8&ll=-35.201306,149.37973&spn=0.405099,0.616608&z=11

A little food for thought...



Ben

Alex wrote:
> Message: 2
> Date: 27 Aug 2008 04:45:15 -0000
> From: "Alex Pollard" <alex-po at trevbus.org>
> Subject: [Peakoil-announce] Food Matters Workshop
> To: peakoil-announce at act-peakoil.org
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> An interesting workshop I think will be worth attending, see below.
> 
> Alex
> O4O4873828
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> President
> ACT Peak Oil Inc.
> http://act-peakoil.org
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> We are taking a whole of problem approach to food and the carbon footprint, 
> from looking at how things are grown - eg conventional agricultural 
> fertilisation and tillage practices add very substantially to the carbon 
> footprint of our food; what is grown, what we puchase from where; how we 
> eat, cook, prepare and save it; and what we can do to reduce carbon impacts 
> from food waste.  I have included this last part because food makes up 
> almost 50% of the domestic waste stream in the ACT (according to the last 
> rubbish audit).