Green Technologies

Products’ carbon footprints easier to track with MIT grad’s start-up

The blue cheese was from Marion. The heavy cream came from Lee. Most of the produce, from Pepperell. Robert Harris is so proud of the local products he uses in his catering that he adorned tables at a recent event with a map showing where the dinner ingredients were grown or made. “It’s a great tool to demonstrate to our clients the care that we take in sourcing,’’ said Harris, chef and owner of Season to Taste Catering and The Table, a 10-seat restaurant, both in Cambridge. The map he used was produced with Sourcemap, a local start-up that combines mapping software with carbon footprint information to help people track the carbon used to produce the things they eat, use, and wear. -- Boston Globe, August 29, 2011