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i got a 7.5

5/11/2008 11:51:23 AM

Your estimated greenhouse gas emissions are 61 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent per year, which is above the U.S. national average.

61
Your Estimated Emissions (2 person household)

53
United States Average (2 person household)

11
World Average (2 person household)

5/11/2008 11:54:46 AM

5/11/2008 11:54:50 AM

maybe you should click on that "offset your carbon footprint" link

5/11/2008 11:56:34 AM

8.3

5/11/2008 11:56:55 AM

mine didn't show that nice graph. how do i get that?

5/11/2008 11:57:36 AM

Your estimated greenhouse gas emissions are 110 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent per year.....



Fuck your planet

5/11/2008 11:59:23 AM

5/11/2008 12:03:35 PM

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"Your estimated greenhouse gas emissions are 14 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent per year, which is below the U.S. national average."

5/11/2008 12:05:08 PM

Mine was 25. About 2/3 of that was home energy.

5/11/2008 12:06:27 PM

anyone below the u.s. average gets one of these

5/11/2008 12:08:57 PM

Anyone seen that show where they calculate someone's footprint and then teach them how to reduce it? I think it's called Wasted, but I could be confusing that with a commercial that was on for another show while I was watching it. In the one I saw they went to a frat house and tried to teach them about recycling and navy showers and turning off lights and such. It was very marginally effective.

5/11/2008 12:16:13 PM

that sounds cool, too bad i get 2 channels



[Edited on May 11, 2008 at 12:17 PM. Reason : i'm still asleep]

5/11/2008 12:16:43 PM

I thought it would be cool, but they put a lot of effort into reducing their footprint from something like 60 times what it should have been from their property size to 55 times what it should have been. Not the best way to convince people to live greener.

5/11/2008 12:19:00 PM

i wear a size 11.

5/11/2008 12:22:06 PM

I wear a size 9.5!

5/11/2008 12:22:27 PM

23

5/11/2008 12:25:36 PM

replacing several coal fired power plants with 1 nuclear power plant would have much greater effect than all your puny efforts

[Edited on May 11, 2008 at 12:27 PM. Reason : a]

5/11/2008 12:26:00 PM

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"Your estimated greenhouse gas emissions are 120 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent per year, which is above the U.S. national average. "

is this good ?

5/11/2008 12:26:33 PM

doing something is better than doing nothing... i don't see destroying/building nuclear plants in my future, so i'll just keep on being a goddamned hippie.

speaking of

it is time to harvest my organically grown blackberries and make more jelly

5/11/2008 12:32:10 PM

Quote :

"replacing several coal fired power plants with 1 nuclear power plant would have much greater effect than all your puny efforts"

5/11/2008 12:38:08 PM

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" 27 Your Estimated Emissions (1 person household) 27 United States Average per Person(1 person household) 5.5 World Average per Person"

it's only this high because I drive 20k miles a year

5/11/2008 12:40:12 PM

12... which seems high considering i live in a one bedroom apt and have no car. flying 3 times shot it up quite a bit.

5/11/2008 12:42:28 PM

7.5?!? do you live in a hut with no electricity and ride a bike everywhere?

5/11/2008 1:04:37 PM

36... yeh baby!

5/11/2008 1:11:17 PM

Your estimated greenhouse gas emissions are 23 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent per year, which is below the U.S. national average.

5/11/2008 1:15:55 PM

18, which is not suprizing. My apt has an AC unit that is of the type i can't put a programmable thermostat on and there were flights this year.

Otherwise though *shrug* screw it. I'm not becoming vegetarian just because it's a "low carbon" emmision diet.

5/11/2008 1:23:53 PM

18. because i live in a one bedroom condo and i don't eat very much meat and i haven't flown recently and i live a mile away from school. basically i lead a very boring life yet i still am still way higher than the world's average per person. i guess i could start a compost pile in the middle of my condo's courtyard

5/11/2008 1:32:22 PM

i drive on average 4 miles per day, and walk wherever possible (i work from my home)
when i do drive, my car gets around 25-29mpg, low emissions
i grow what i can to eat, don't use pesticides
mulch/compost/feed birds with ALL food not eaten
recycle everything possible
only turn on lights when necessary
don't use heat/ac unless the temperature gets below 60 or above 82 in my house (and that is mostly for the safety/comfort of my pets, i don't mind wearing 5 blankets or going naked)
only heat/ac rooms i use frequently
unplug anything i'm not using, power-save on all computer equipment
super low-flow water, have like 50 buckets outside to catch rain
never been on a plane
i am a very strict vegetarian, eat mostly organic (though i do have a very bad addiction to peanut m&m's)

as far as my occupation goes, i use one of the most eco-friendly printing companies in the US.

[Edited on May 11, 2008 at 1:35 PM. Reason : being nekkid is awesome]

5/11/2008 1:34:58 PM

Your estimated greenhouse gas emissions are 45 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent per year, which is above the U.S. national average.

To reduce your climate impact, there are many simple things you can change in your everyday behavior that will make a big difference in the fight to slow climate change:

5/11/2008 1:36:04 PM

i think mine will go down a lot when i actually have a job and i'm not poor. i would love to buy all organic food but it is way way WAY to expensive for me so i only do it sometimes. and since i'm in a condo i can't exactly have a garden. plus the next car i get WILL be a hybrid unless something better has come out by then (because it might be 100 years before i get a new car). i drive a honda now, but even the newer non-hybrid hondas get way better gas mileage than mine.

5/11/2008 1:38:10 PM

Quote :

"doing something is better than doing nothing... i don't see destroying/building nuclear plants in my future, so i'll just keep on being a goddamned hippie. speaking of it is time to harvest my organically grown blackberries and make more jelly"

i wasn't suggesting that it is useless, just that we need to address the biggest problems sooner than later

solar is of particular interest to me and my next house will make use of it in several ways

5/11/2008 1:42:01 PM

I thought buying organic food could actually increase your carbon footprint, because the demand for organic food is so high that it is impossible to supply locally. I can't find any figures, but I remember reading that a higher proportion of organic food was imported than "regular" food.

5/11/2008 1:43:22 PM

i read that too actually i think...now that you mention it

i don't know if it was imported but it might not be locally grown necessarily so big trucks or whatever are still going to have to drive all around to distribute it.



[Edited on May 11, 2008 at 1:46 PM. Reason : .]

http://www.carboncommentary.com/2007/09/15/7

http://www.smartplanet.com/news/food/10001099/tesco-under-fire-on-organic-food-s-carbon-footprint.htm

[Edited on May 11, 2008 at 1:49 PM. Reason : .]

5/11/2008 1:45:27 PM

too bad carbon footprints matter less than the fucking sun which is causing all of this hysteria

5/11/2008 2:23:56 PM

honestly i'm more concerned with eating pesticides than with the fuel used to bring it here as far as organic food goes, i hardly drive anymore, so i count that towards my fuel consumption, hehe.

5/11/2008 2:25:55 PM

36. i have a big dick.

5/11/2008 2:32:21 PM

24 tons, but it is probably more since i didnt get to factor in my gas guzzler jeep

5/11/2008 3:05:17 PM

Big enough. Considering it goes from 35-12 a few times a year, it's in a rather constant state of fluctuation.

5/11/2008 3:12:37 PM

63

there was no option for driving a vehicle (albeit 2000 miles a year) with leaded gasoline and no catalytic converter, this may have skewed the number low

5/11/2008 3:52:15 PM

7.3 - Your Estimated Emissions (1 person household)
27 - United States Average per Person(1 person household)
5.5 - World Average per Person

woot



yay for walking everywhere and being vegan

5/11/2008 3:56:23 PM

haha hell yeah alee

eating meat is for whores

5/11/2008 4:13:37 PM

hey hey i'm not a whore

if i were i wouldn't be broke

5/11/2008 4:15:23 PM

22

nice, but no cigars.

5/11/2008 4:34:40 PM

your salary as a whore would depend on how good you were at eating meat

5/11/2008 4:44:32 PM

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"7.3 - Your Estimated Emissions (1 person household) 27 - United States Average per Person(1 person household) 5.5 - World Average per Person woot yay for walking everywhere and being vegan"

even with doing all that, you're still worse than an average person in the world.

5/11/2008 4:46:35 PM

the point isn't to be the most eco-friendly person in the world. some people can't help the fact that they have to drive far to get to a job, they really like eating meat or that maybe they need to fly a few times a year to see family, their job requires it or they just have the opportunity to take a nice vacation and enjoy themselves. shit, i'd fly somewhere warm and sunny right now if i had that much money laying around, everyone deserves a good vacation every once in a while.

the point is to do what you can to minimize your negative impact on the environment. if more people used public transportation or walked/biked, those systems would improve, making it easier on everyone to lessen their usage of natural resources. same with supply and demand, if more people demanded more eco-friendly products, companies would probably produce more of those and less of what is not as desired, and the price of production would drop with the increase in sales.

it's very difficult for one person to start a huge revolution, but if many people do a small part, it's really not that hard.

[Edited on May 11, 2008 at 5:00 PM. Reason : hoof hearted]

5/11/2008 4:56:53 PM

Your estimated greenhouse gas emissions are 120 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent per year, which is above the U.S. national average.

5/11/2008 6:33:59 PM

Wait, what does eating meat have to do with "carbon footprint." This sounds like some environmentalist bullshit, to me.

5/11/2008 7:12:03 PM

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"12 Your Estimated Emissions (1 person household) 27 United States Average per Person(1 person household) 5.5 World Average per Person"

5/11/2008 7:15:08 PM