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How Green is Your St. Patty’s Day Beer?

March 13th, 2008 · No Comments

 
 

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Brendan Koerner from Slate.com has got a great article up about the environmental economics of beer, in light of the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day, commonly associated with the drink. (and green-colored beer at that) The irony of that is that many common beers have enormous carbon footprints, based mainly on the containers that [...]

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