This sailboat carries luxury wine and chocolate across the Atlantic
An award-winning team of journalists, designers, and videographers who tell brand stories through Fast Company's distinctive lens This piece was originally published by Ambrook Research. Though international shipping has made it possible to eat Sardinian figs in New York and Vietnamese cashews in California, it’s come at a cost: Much of the food in our fridges or lining our grocery store shelves got to us via ships that burn fossil fuels, which are contributing to the current “boiling” of the planet. Transportation is responsible for nearly one-fifth of all the carbon emissions in the food system, and between 75% and 80% of all goods are transported via sea freight, which typically relies on container ships powered by dirty bunker fuel. Despite international agreements forged this summer to slash global shipping emissions by at least 20% by 2030, the past 10 years have shown “no progress in terms of actual emission reductions” from the industry, Delaine McCullough, a senior leader at t
An award-winning team of journalists, designers, and videographers who tell brand stories through Fast Company's distinctive lens This piece was originally published by Ambrook Research. Though international shipping has made it possible to eat Sardinian figs in New York and Vietnamese cashews in California, it’s come at a cost: Much of the food in our fridges or lining our grocery store shelves got to us via ships that burn fossil fuels, which are contributing to the current “boiling” of the planet. Transportation is responsible for nearly one-fifth of all the carbon emissions in the food sys
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