Friday, June 04, 2010

Today's question: When you drink a beer, do you worry about the bad weather alleged caused by the office stationery of the maker of that beer?

What's the carbon footprint of ... a pint of beer? | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The beer at the low end of the scale is based on figures for the Keswick Brewing Company, a microbrewery quite near where I live. Just about everything you can think of was included in the study I did for them. There were the obvious things such as ingredients, packaging, fuel, electricity and transport. I also included such elements as staff travel, the carbon cost of having to replace their equipment every so many years, and office stationery.

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