http://jcarrot.org/apples-to-apples/ Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:02:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://jcarrot.org/apples-to-apples/#comment-2016 Rabbi Shmuel Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:07:10 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/apples-to-apples/#comment-2016 It's the concept of "embodied energy" (kinda the environmental equivalent of you're sleeping with everyone your partner ever slept with) - Jay Weinstein touched on it in his excellent seminar and in his book "The Ethical Gourmet". We used biodegradable plates and cutlery for Shlomo's bar mitzva - they had to be shipped in from CA - Clearly that had an environmental cost but we made a cost benefit analysis that the lesson we were able to share and the awareness raising we hoped to gain offset the additional carbon footprint of the shipping - we hope we did the right thing:) It’s the concept of “embodied energy” (kinda the environmental equivalent of you’re sleeping with everyone your partner ever slept with) - Jay Weinstein touched on it in his excellent seminar and in his book “The Ethical Gourmet”. We used biodegradable plates and cutlery for Shlomo’s bar mitzva - they had to be shipped in from CA - Clearly that had an environmental cost but we made a cost benefit analysis that the lesson we were able to share and the awareness raising we hoped to gain offset the additional carbon footprint of the shipping - we hope we did the right thing:)

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