About the carbon descent cooking blog
This blog has been inspired by the Transition Towns
movement that I've become involved in over the last few months, here in
the Forest of Dean. It's a grass-roots community movement of people
getting together in their own localities to address the practical
issues posed by peak oil and climate change. To me it's all about
taking some control over these big things that can cause us
individually to feel quite depressed and paralysed - not waiting for
governments, councils, or someone `up there' to solve the problems for
us - but lots of people cooperating together to take lots of small
(manageable!) steps to chip away at these seemingly momentous problems,
and coming up with Carbon Descent Plans tailored to the needs of their local communities.
The following quote from the Transition Towns Wiki neatly sums up the issues:
Low Carbon Cooking isn't going to save the world from global warming all by itself, but food, where it comes from, what we choose to eat, how it gets to us and how we cook it, is currently a major part of the problem. It doesn't have to be that way. Food is s also an area I know something about, having worked in wholefoods, written cookery books and done a fair amount of home-growing over the years, so it's somewhere I might be able to make a useful contribution.
The following quote from the Transition Towns Wiki neatly sums up the issues:
The Transition Towns wiki is a good place to start if you want to find out more.
Low Carbon Cooking isn't going to save the world from global warming all by itself, but food, where it comes from, what we choose to eat, how it gets to us and how we cook it, is currently a major part of the problem. It doesn't have to be that way. Food is s also an area I know something about, having worked in wholefoods, written cookery books and done a fair amount of home-growing over the years, so it's somewhere I might be able to make a useful contribution.
