How Green is Your Grocer? Ask Al Gore.
By Denis Campbell • Jul 26th, 2008 • Category: Business Issues
(Reprise Article)
The Tesco, Sainsbury and ASDA chains have all recently attempted to jump on the green bandwagon. Turning out lights at night, offering replacement re-useable bags for plastic and other small but visible steps to help become more carbon neutral. The question on this Earth Day is
what is being done to cut down the carbon footprint of the produce and other consummables shipped in from around the world.This winter I have feasted on produce from Israel and South Africa. And while there would not be strawberries normally in December or January, at what price to global warming does my breakfast cereal fix come?
All last fall the major chains were eager to speak about this issue because there was so much to be done and being done. Now there is an eery silence around this issue and only Al Gore is again asking questions.
Carbon offsets and hybrid cars let one sleep better at night and there is a huge need to awaken the political process and really move quickly on this issue. Did you know the hole in the ozone closed because we stopped using flourocarbons? That’s a huge success story that no one talks about. So what
Yes the economy and war lead the hit parade of issues and if not now when will climate change be taken seriously? Al’s most recent update about global warming is chilling. Watch it here (sorry but TED.com’s embed code will not work).
Denis Campbell is a journalist, author and businessman.
From a farmhouse in South Wales overlooking the Irish Sea, he and his wife run Target Point Ltd, an EU-wide strategy firm working with global businesses across a dozen industries on clarifying and executing strategy and changing their culture and focus. As a businessman living in the EU for 10-years, writing was a passionate hobby. He began blogging in 2006 with a number of pieces examining the corrupt climate of deception in the billion dollar spiritual self-help industry and re-published collected business, political and lifestyle features published across the EU since 2001. It has since grown into The Vadimus Post, from the Latin Quo Vadimus – where are we headed? (…and do we know why?), a daily e-magazine for those wanting to dig deeper, learn more together and dialogue on the key issues of the day.
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