Article: The woman with a tiny carbon footprint

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The woman with a tiny carbon footprint

Forget planes, trains or automobiles - if Joan Pick wants to go

anywhere, she runs. And she eats nothing but raw food. Is her

lifestyle extreme or the future we must all face up to? Emine Saner

meets her

 

Emine Saner

The Guardian, Thursday November 13 2008

 

We all know we are meant to be reducing our carbon footprint, but I

suspect that many people wouldn't be prepared to go as far as Joan

Pick. She hasn't driven a car since 1973 and has only been in a petrol-

guzzling vehicle twice since then (once in the hearse at her mother's

funeral, the other time when an ambulance came to pick her up after

she dislocated her shoulder). Her gas supply was cut off sometime when

the last Labour government was in power, and her electricity usage is

minimal. She eats only raw food and the only items she ever buys are

new trainers - because she gets around by running everywhere. Pick is

67 and claims her lifestyle keeps her healthy. " I've been living on

nothing for the past 35 years, " she says.

 

Full story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/13/ethicalliving-carbonfootprints