Tompkins County Relocalization Project

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Already noted in the local sustainability community, but not yet
posted to this list, is some recent highly relevant work by
TCLocal member Chris Peters:

   http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct07/diets.ag.footprint.sl.html

The finding of Chris's group regarding the need to include some
meat production in a maximally efficient food system is a perfect
example of the kind of sophisticated (I hesitate to use the word
"holistic") approach we need to be taking in trying to plan for
energy descent in a particular location.  It ain't simple, and the
right answers ain't obvious.

Jon