Inside Energy (https://insideenergy.org/tag/thanksgiving/)
This Thanksgiving our holiday feast will contain 4500 calories. Those calories are just a measure of energy, and that food was produced using fossil fuels. In this video, Inside Energy’s Dan Boyce explains how fossil fuels are, in fact, your food.
Mike Berners-Lee is one of the world’s leading researchers on the carbon footprint of—well—everything (he even wrote a book subtitled “The Carbon Footprint of Everything”), he’s plenty familiar with the impacts of the foods that star in the traditional Thanksgiving Day spread.
With feast season right around the corner, dreams of pumpkin pie and cranberry sauce have us wondering: What do you want to know about the way energy impacts your food? Send us your questions! We’ll put them to a reader vote, then investigate the winning question. #eatyourfuel
Energy is so ubiquitous in everyday life that we often take it for granted. In the spirit of the holidays, here are ten things we’re thankful for this Thanksgiving—and that we can use thanks to energy.
