Every so often I like to visit one of those online carbon
footprint calculators to check in to see how good I’m doing. There’s a lot of
calculators online but I like this one the best (it allows you to fine tune
your answers and paint a better picture of your true usages). So even with my
recycling, my minimal meat consumption, my 45+ mpg car and my limiting my air
travel to bare minimum, I’m still at 10.48 metric tons of CO2
created by my lifestyle; 50% less than the US average, but still way above
where we all need to be. My biggest culprits? The 2.29 metric tons created by
my use of heating oil (necessary to keep my house/pipes from freezing in
winter) and my car, my sweet little car at 3.20 metric tons for 15,000 miles of
driving. Another great thing about this calculator is that you can instantly
see how small changes affect your CO2 footprint: like switching from
eating only white meat to becoming a vegetarian saves a half ton of CO2
or driving 5,000 miles less a year saves a full ton of CO2.
www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx |
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