The language of the ecovore...
Jun 08 2009
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cookprint - n. The energy and other resources used while preparing meals. As in:

Need help reducing your carbon "cookprint"?

A new crop of climate-conscious cookbooks is turning 2009 into the year of the ecovore.
—"Here's a new crop of climate-conscious cookbooks," The Kansas City Star, April 22, 2009

locavore - n. A person who eats only locally grown food. As in:

You've heard of herbivores and carnivores. Now meet locavores.

Locavores are dedicated to eating food grown near home. Some set a limit of 100 miles, some a modest 50. This eating program makes it all but impossible to drink coffee or eat chocolate chip cookies. Often, bread is taboo because the wheat is grown far away.

The idea is to save on the fossil fuel that is used to transport out-of-season foods for thousands of miles, to raise some food yourself and to get in touch with a community of local farmers.
—Sylvia Carter, "Local foods — the best of all worlds," Newsday, May 23, 2007

Adapted from source: www.wordspy.com; June 2009