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Spanning the Bordeaux Belt – what does local mean in a global economy

Posted on April 11, 2011 By Andrew Thaler 8 Comments on Spanning the Bordeaux Belt – what does local mean in a global economy
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A small news article from Science has been taped above my desk for the last few years. I don’t remember who originally gave it to me, or why I even hung it up, but there it is, nestled between a couple XKCD cartoons. The article is titled “The Wine Divide” and it raises many questions about sustainability, inherent biases in conventional wisdom, and what the term “local” means in a global economy. And it’s about wine.

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