Monday, August 18th, 2008...9:17 pm
Reduce your carbon footprint: Buy box wine
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Quoting The New York Times via Daring Fireball:
“Switching to wine in a box for the 97 percent of wines that are made to be consumed within a year would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about two million tons, or the equivalent of retiring 400,000 cars.”
I’m convinced… and it didn’t take me long to find box wine recommendations for Boho and Black Box. Because the bladders in the boxes have no air in them, they even keep longer than their bottled couterparts — up to four weeks! One wine maker in a message board commented, “When 10% of your product is ruined by tainted cork, and 2-Buck Chuck outsells good quality $10-20/bottle wine by a 100-1 margin, you can bet there is a drive to offer the good stuff at a better value.”
Cheers.
2 Comments
August 25th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
I think there have to be more aesthetically pleasing ways to reduce my carbon footprint.
September 7th, 2008 at 6:46 am
cool blog! i found it on my friend Brandon’s blogroll.
I’ll check back often.
If I could figure out how to make a blogroll on my own blog, I would add you
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