From marketplace.publicradio.org:
Holidays usually don’t provide for the most environmentally-friendly options. But Marketplace’s Adriene Hill is offering her tips on how to have a green Thanksgiving without having to compromise your holiday fun.
TEXT OF INTERVIEW
Steve Chiotakis: Grocery stores will be packed this weekend, as people grab up Thanksgiving fixings. What does all that eating, traveling and family visiting mean for the environment?
We’ve called on Marketplace Sustainability reporter Adriene Hill to help us out. Good morning Adriene.
Adriene Hill: Good morning, Steve.
CHIOTAKIS: So a big green thumbs up or green thumbs down on Thanksgiving?
HILL: You know, it would be super easy to apply the whole bummer environmental vibe to yet another American tradition.
CHIOTAKIS: Like a Debbie Downer.
HILL: But it’s no fun. I don’t want to be that reporter. Yes, the best thing you can do on Thanksgiving is to sit at home, alone in the dark, without any heat, don’t eat anything — you’ll save a ton of carbon that way. But I really like Thanksgiving. So instead I want to focus on how you can make the holiday more environmentally-friendly.
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