Pedigree Chum
Good for Nothing (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
A new book by New Zealand authors Robert and Brenda Vale urges pet owners to "Eat the dog", since the carbon footprint of a year's dog-food is too awful to contemplate.
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Waggling wings, floating turbines, and dead dogs
OrdinaryGweilo.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
... a great dane make you as much of an eco-outcast as an SUV driver? Yes it should, say Robert and Brenda Vale, two architects who specialise in sustainable living at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. In their new book, Time to Eat the Dog: The real guide to sustainable living , they compare the ecological footprints of a menagerie of popular pets with those of various...
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Carbon Footprints: Ditch the dog, get a Hummer H2, save the planet?
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Filed under: Etc. , Green Culture , Green Daily If you don't like dogs, there's now a new reason to continue avoiding canis domesticus . New Zealanders Robert and Brenda Vale have put forth the hypothesis that the care and feeding of a pooch is more environmentally harmful than rolling in a Toyota Land Cruiser. Those shifty, antisocial felines aren't much better, so don't get any more...
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Carbon Footprints: Ditch the dog, get a Hummer H2, save the planet?
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Filed under: SUV , Etc. If you don't like dogs, there's now a new reason to continue avoiding canis domesticus . New Zealanders Robert and Brenda Vale have put forth the hypothesis that the care and feeding of a pooch is more environmentally harmful than rolling in a Toyota Land Cruiser. Those shifty, antisocial felines aren't much better, so don't get any more smug than you already...
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Dog vs. SUV: Which Has Larger Eco-Footprint?
Neatorama (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
This guy is destroying Earth! Which has a larger ecological footprint, a large dog or an SUV? According to Robert and Brenda Vale, Fido has a Hummer of an eco-footprint: In "Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living," authors Robert and Brenda Vale argue that resources required to feed a dog — including [...]
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Pet Centricity
Big Brass Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... why I would never consider eating her. For any reason, even if I was starving to death. Robert and Brenda Vale can take their idea and shove it where the sun doesn't shine. For most people that would be their ass but for them it seems to be the place where their heart should be located. My dogs don't eat beef, chicken, wheat, corn or soy and the companionship they provide is worth...
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Pet Centricity
Debsweb (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... why I would never consider eating her. For any reason, even if I was starving to death. Robert and Brenda Vale can take their idea and shove it where the sun doesn't shine. For most people that would be their ass but for them it seems to be the place where their heart should be located. My dogs don't eat beef, chicken, wheat, corn or soy and the companionship they provide is worth...
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CBS Claims Dogs Are Killing The Planet
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... living , which finds that dogs have a greater eco-footprint than gas-guzzling SUVs. Robert and Brenda Vale, two sustainable-living researchers from New Zealand, authored the study, which was reviewed in the New Scientist . Their conclusions are based on the amount of resources expended to feed household pets - in a medium-sized dog's case it takes slightly more than 2 acres of land...
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Infographic of the Day: Is Owning a Dog Worse Than Owning a Hummer?
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Two architects and a scientist do the math, and conclude that Fido has a massive carbon paw-print. Seriously? You'd never guess that the lovable mutt sleeping at your feet is actually an inveterate carbon emitter--but that's what some have concluded. As New Scientist reports , Robert and Brenda Vale--two New Zealand architects who specialize in sustainable building--calculated the carbon...
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The Green War on Pets
U.S. News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... you may as well get an SUV. Much of the impetus for this anti-pet sentiment comes from Robert and Brenda Vale, scientists and authors of “Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living.” In it, the Vales argue that cats and dogs consume resources, devastate wildlife populations, and contribute to pollution and the spread of disease. Thanks to their calculations,...
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Study says dogs have larger carbon footprint than SUV
Physorg (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Study says dogs have larger carbon footprint than SUVNovember 4, 2009 By Mark RahnerThanks for killing the planet, dog owners. Well, that's a rough paraphrase of a New Zealand study that claims a medium-size dog leaves a larger ecological footprint than an SUV. In "Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living," authors Robert and Brenda Vale argue that resources required...
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Sell Your SUV and Eat Your Dog
OpiniPundit (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
My kids have a couple of hamsters, guess that would be equivalent to a a Passat. Thanks for killing the planet , dog owners. Well, that's a rough paraphrase of a New Zealand study that claims a medium-size dog leaves a larger ecological footprint than an SUV. In "Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living," authors Robert and Brenda Vale argue that resources required...
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- Dog's eco-footprint a Hummer, study says - Seattle Times
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Dog's eco-footprint a Hummer, study says
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
In "Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living," authors Robert and Brenda Vale argue that resources required to feed a dog give it about twice the eco-footprint of an SUV.
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Michael Vick for the EPA?
Amspecblog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
According to Robert and Brenda Vale, the environmentalist authors of Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living, feeding and caring for your pet pooch does as much harm to the...
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Ecosmackdown: Pets Versus Solar Panels
Wired Science (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
It takes 17 times more land to feed American pets than would be required by solar farms producing enough electricity to meet all the demand in the United States. Why do we know this? A new book by Robert and Brenda Vale, two architects at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, looked into the ecological foodprints [...]