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Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
« on: July 07, 2010, 06:05:45 pm »

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Re: Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2010, 07:43:09 pm »
"If everyone on the planet lived my lifestyle, we would need: 6.20 Earths"

Oh snap!  I'm not that bad when it comes to being green, but I'm not that good either!   :-X

Your quiz result page defaulted to 0.00 Earths, btw.
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Re: Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2010, 07:48:32 pm »
"If everyone on the planet lived my lifestyle, we would need: 6.20 Earths"

Oh snap!  I'm not that bad when it comes to being green, but I'm not that good either!   :-X

Your quiz result page defaulted to 0.00 Earths, btw.
Mine was 2.56, guess I still have some work to do as well.

Hopefully this will simply get some to think about ways to make less of a negative impact. No matter the reduction one makes it is never too little.

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Re: Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2010, 07:50:38 pm »
I think it's because I put that I travel 10,000 miles by airplane for foreign travel, which may be too high.   :dontknow:
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Re: Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2010, 07:50:58 pm »
Here is mine. If everyone on the planet lived my lifestyle, we would need:
= 5.37 Earths

Not the greatest. I need to work on it a bit.

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Re: Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2010, 08:01:57 pm »
I was a bit surprised with mine, as I am totally off grid, heat and cook(in cooler months) with a wood stove and raise or hunt/forage for most of my groceries and drive less then 450 miles a month, of course my war pony is a F250 with a high performance big block 390 in it........Can't replace that tho because I have a 40 foot 5th wheel travel trailer that I may decide to move again one day, LOL.

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Re: Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2010, 08:14:48 pm »
My ecological carbon footprint is 2.75 Earths.  :peace: I think I can bring it down a bit more by minimizing the electricity use by unplugging chords when not in use.  :) 

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« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2010, 08:21:01 pm »
My ecological carbon footprint is 2.75 Earths.  :peace: I think I can bring it down a bit more by minimizing the electricity use by unplugging chords when not in use.  :) 
EXCELLENT!!!

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« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2010, 08:34:46 pm »
Does anyone else even really live on your world?....just kidding just kidding.....really.

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« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2010, 09:06:18 am »
Okay, I did it again because I'm pretty sure I over-estimated some of the numbers and I still got 5.38 Earths.   :crybaby2:  We're screwed!!

I'm surprised it didn't have any questions on the number of kids you have, as diapers alone contribute to so much landfill space...

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Re: Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2010, 11:15:14 am »
5.27 earths.  The toughest part is winter.  Our electric bill was insane.

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« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2010, 04:33:37 pm »
Mine is 2.27. I am wondering if that has to do with having a large (just under 3,000 sq. ft.) 4 bedroom home? I have to think the calculator is 'assuming' I heat the entire thing in the winter, which I don't. I close off rooms unless kids/guests are coming to stay. Yeah, I am nice enough to allow them heat, especially the grandkids. ;D I say this because my year round natural gas bill/ budget plan is only $92 and our winters are brutally cold here. I also recycle pretty much everything, could do a lot better on that, and I compost a lot through the year too - great for my garden and the neighbors.

Thanks for putting that up, walksalone! I think it's cool and useful for us to be able to see how much we take up. I saw your results @ 0.00 too and wondered how you were still alive....... :D
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Re: Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
« Reply #12 on: July 08, 2010, 04:53:06 pm »
If everyone on the planet lived my lifestyle, we would need:

= 4.26 Earths

not so good. yikes!  :-[


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« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2010, 05:56:54 pm »
Mine is 2.27. I am wondering if that has to do with having a large (just under 3,000 sq. ft.) 4 bedroom home? I have to think the calculator is 'assuming' I heat the entire thing in the winter, which I don't. I close off rooms unless kids/guests are coming to stay. Yeah, I am nice enough to allow them heat, especially the grandkids. ;D I say this because my year round natural gas bill/ budget plan is only $92 and our winters are brutally cold here. I also recycle pretty much everything, could do a lot better on that, and I compost a lot through the year too - great for my garden and the neighbors.

Thanks for putting that up, walksalone! I think it's cool and useful for us to be able to see how much we take up. I saw your results @ 0.00 too and wondered how you were still alive....... :D
No, mine was 2.56 if I remember correctly now. I posted it in an earlier post. You are doing excellent I think considering the size of your home etc. I live in my RV and am off grid with solar power etc, buy hardly nothing at all (anti-capitalist/anti/consumer as much as possible without going completely Abo.)recycle etc etc. I'm thinking perhaps the wood smoke may be part of the cause of my higher then I expected result as well of course there is my gas *bleep* war pony ;0)

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