Post Carbon Fellow Michael Shuman was interviewed ahead of Transition Sarasota’s Eat Local Week.

From the interview:

Cooper Levey-Baker: I’ve read about localization also being a necessary tool to combat climate change.

Michael Shuman: Whether your fear is climate change or Ebola or global capital flight, there are some very good reasons you want to be working on resilience. Specifically on the climate change issue, there is a lot of garbage information out there about how distance doesn’t make a difference in terms of the carbon footprint of a given purchase. If I could generalize, to me, it’s a no-brainer that the farther you ship something the more carbon you’re going to generate…

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