{"id":1862,"date":"2006-02-03T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2006\/02\/03\/take-the-true-cost-tour\/"},"modified":"2006-02-03T01:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T01:32:00","slug":"take-the-true-cost-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/take-the-true-cost-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Take the True Cost Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/truecosttour.org\/images\/decorlogo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/truecosttour.org\/images\/decorlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Thanks to Eric Benson at <a href=\"http:\/\/fallenmitten.blogspot.com\/\">Creative Calories<\/a> for turning me on to <a href=\"http:\/\/truecosttour.org\/index.html\">True Cost Tour<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;an audio tour that travels with you through a typical grocery store and reveals the &#8220;true cost&#8221; of several everyday products. Through environmental, societal, and nutritional lenses, the tour offers insight into these everyday products and seeks to empower the consumer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The audio tour and website are a project of a design studio class at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/\">University of Texas at Austin<\/a>.  In addition to the tour itself, they&#8217;ve provided <a href=\"http:\/\/truecosttour.org\/resources.html\">a thorough list of resources<\/a> for discovering more about the products on your grocery store&#8217;s shelf.  I agree, Eric &#8212; this is a project that deserves attention.<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/food\" rel=\"tag\">food<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/groceries\" rel=\"tag\">groceries<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/environment\" rel=\"tag\">environment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/costs\" rel=\"tag\">costs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/audio\" rel=\"tag\">audio<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/university\" rel=\"tag\">university<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/Texas\" rel=\"tag\">Texas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Eric Benson at Creative Calories for turning me on to True Cost Tour, &#8230;an audio tour that travels with you through a typical grocery store and reveals the&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Take the True Cost Tour &#8226; 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