Enivronmental Research: 100-mile diet, reducing your ecological foot print, conspiracies of the food industry- MSG

"No nation feeds itself anymore. We all stand in reference to the same global food system." (32)

This is a quote from "The 100-Mile Diet" a book that I recently ordered from Chapters that is going to begin my research into thost big questions: how do we reduce our ecological foot print? Will bike riding and local eating make any difference?

I also plan to read "In Defense of Food" and "Cool it: The skeptical envionmentalists guide to global warming" to help me bring it all together. The author of "Cool it" maintains that all the little steps we take will in fact, only lengthen the earth's life by 7 days. What does he propose as an alternative?? We'll find out soon!