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Find out more about Food Miles

Local food finder
www.bigbarn.co.uk

Find Your Local Producers!

Enter your postcode, or a place name, in the box below to find locally produced food. Please note that organic producers have round icons.

Place: 

Email: 

Scale:  5 miles 10 miles 15 miles 20 miles 25 miles 30 miles 40 miles 50 miles  

By supplying your email address at this stage you are registering with BigBarn. You do not have to give us your email address to access the map.

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Calculate CO2 emissions

Directions: Type the energy value from your bill or records into the left column. Then click anywhere outside the cell you just filled. The answer will appear in the column to the right.

Energy Value	Conversion Factor	Result
miles in a petrol car*	* 0.36 =	kgCO2
miles on a train or bus	* 0.1 =	kgCO2
miles in an aeroplane**	* 0.29 =	kgCO2
Total emissions: kgCO2	equivalent to kg Carbon

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Regional food and drink
www.regionalfoodanddrink.co.uk

Sustainable food and farming
www.sustainweb.org

Local food links
www.localfoodworks.org

Farmers markets
www.farmersmarkets.net

Food miles calculator
www.organiclinker.com

Fair trade
www.fairtrade.org.uk

Defra
Defra Food Miles study ...

Other links of interest

River Cottage - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
www.rivercottage.net

Antony Worrall Thompson
www.awtonline.co.uk

The Whole Hog and Sauce
www.thewholehogandsauce.co.uk

Big Switch Banquet
www.bigswitch.org.uk

The Wirral Food and Drink Festival
www.wirralfoodfestival.co.uk

Gonalston Farm Shop
www.gonalstonfarmshop.co.uk

Vines - Local Milk
www.localmilk.co.uk

 

 

 

*The car mileage figure is based upon an average UK family car returning 29mpg. If you drive a smaller car achieving (say) 40mpg, or regularly share a car, then you could adjust the mileage accordingly to estimate CO 2 emissions.

**Aeroplane emissions are very hard to estimate. The figure above is based upon short-haul (European) flights in economy class - add up to 50% for business class travel with lower seat densities. However there is some evidence that there is at least as much Global Warming effect again from other aircraft emissions in the upper atmosphere, such as ozone created from NOx or condensation trails, than solely from the CO 2 emitted on the journey.