So, what is your carbon footprint? (Mine's 6.45, FWIW)

[Deja Q]

I have no "carbon offset projects", "carbon credit", "carbon credit cards", or any of the other jive things. I do what I can right now.

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/ (UK)
http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalculator/ (US)


My personal impact is 6.45 -- smaller than average. (I use no heating oil or propane; I live in an apartment and I know the hot water is heated by natural gas so I did add that into the equation.)


Wow. That's the first time I've been 'smaller than average' for any test I found of interest... :rofl:

[flvegan]

1. It told me I should take fewer flights

even though I entered the number zero in the box.

What's fewer than zero?

[Deja Q]

5. I doubt it's entirely accurate; there are other factors it could use to fine-tune things...

[flvegan]

7. I agree.

It's completely based in the usage of fuel, which I think is pretty cool as it isolates that one aspect. One MAJOR aspect.

[Fox Mulder]

2. 4.05

[Deja Q]

4. .

:yourock:

[Fox Mulder]

10. If I didn't drive to work, I could get it down to 2.45.

[supernova]

3. 10.8 is the lowest I could get it

It won't let me opt out of the natural gas/propane stuff, eventhough I don't use them at all.

[mainegreen]

6. 2 n/t

[YankeyMCC]

8. 6.35

But it's 5.5 if I eliminate the Flights I have to take due to my job.

[Inchworm]

9. 5.5

I attribute this to being a hermit :)

[liberalitch]

42. 5.3

I drive to work..... and I live in a pedestrian friendly environment.

[Elidor]

11. 5.1

If I get my bike fixed and bike to work, I could drop it even more.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. 2.6

nyc living makes this a bit weird. i dont drive or have heating bills to pay.

[Karenca]

13. 2.1 - I think it's wrong -- eom

[GenDem]

14. 7.35

Not too bad.

I wish there were questions regarding recycling and what kind of light bulbs I use.

[Connonym]

15. 4.75

[SPKrazy]

16. 4

:shrug:

[electron_blue]

17. 3.2 This doesn't sound right.......

I took another quiz which said if everyone lived like I did, we'd need 5 or 6 earths. So how come I'm all of a sudden with a much smaller than average footprint?

[chknltl]

18. 5.2

...maybe if I stop posting in Hypnotoad threads my electricity consumption will drop a point or two.

[pokerfan]

19. 3.1

I live close enough to work that I only need to fill my 13 gallon tank about once a month.

Propane furnace/hot water but the house is so well insulated, I can turn the thermostat down to 50 at night and I've never had it kick on. When I'm home, I keep it set at about 64 and wear a sweater or sweatshirt.

I live just a couple of blocks from a 40 mile bike path that runs through the city alongside the river. Plus my neighborhood is very bike friendly with lots of bike lanes.

I fly less than once per year but 0 didn't sound quite right so I listed one long flight per year anyway. Last flight I took was almost a year ago and was only 350 miles.

[u4ic]

20. Interesting...

I found at least 3 different Canadian carbon calculator sites...and I can't access any of them.


The laptop I'm using belongs to the provincial gov't; the woman I'm housesitting for is an employee. I should mention the Conservative provincial government, who doesn't want to do a damn thing about global climate change. :eyes:

[Critters2]

21. 5.5

Because I have a small car (Ford Focus) and drive as little as possible. I do have carbon offset for my car from terrapass.com, which is supposed to make my car carbon neutral. Should do that for my house, too.

[GirlinContempt]

22. 1.25

I don't drive, I don't fly often at all, I don't use natural gas or propane or heating oil.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

34. gee whiz!

:P

[GirlinContempt]

44. Yeah, I don't know

maybe it's broken :P

[KitchenWitch]

23. Mine is 7

I think mine is so high because I live in SoCal.

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

31. I think you're right about SoCal

I live in the San Fernando Valley, so maybe that's why my score was 7.85.

[unsavedtrash]

24. 3.3

Not bad.

[Nicole]

25. 4.9 n/t

[flamingyouth]

26. 3.65

[MrSlayer]

27. 4.85

Is that good?

[krispos42]

28. 10 in socks, 9½ in bare feet n/t

[Whoa_Nelly]

29. 6.7

Am surprised!

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

30. 7.85

But the site didn't have a year for 2007 when it came to selecting that car I drive, and I wonder if a partial-zero emissions car (like a 2007 Camry) would lower my score?

[Midlodemocrat]

49. I had that issue as well.

[Forkboy]

32. 2.7

Which is also my IQ.

[cobalt1999]

33. 50.3! Turns out I'm personally responsible for global warming.

I guess taking over 125 flights per year for my job is killing the planet.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

35. thats it, i am notifying gore.

:P

[cobalt1999]

38. and there weren't even any questions about boating.

So, that score doesn't count the use of the boats big block V8 with fuels lines running to it the diameter of a garden hose. :evilgrin:

I'm sorry Al.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

40. yikes! there were no meat eating questions either. i hear thats bad for the environment.

[taterguy]

36. Where's the "How many kids have you spawned?" question

Did the quiz folks skip the part of an Inconvenient Truth where Al Gore talks about the strain that the population explosion puts on the environment?

[dropkickpa]

41. Perhaps the household size question?

[taterguy]

43. You can live in a house with 20 people and not have spawned any of them

So if that's their delicate way of addressing an issue then it's a pretty stupid way to do it.

[philosophie_en_rose]

37. 4.4

Entirely from driving and flights.

[dropkickpa]

39. 1.7

That whole not having a car and never travelling thing really helps. Poverty is good for the environment!!

[huskerlaw]

45. 5.0, but

it makes you select an "average propane bill" and even if you put $0-$25, the number goes up. I don't HAVE a propane bill, because I don't use any!

[XemaSab]

46. Somehow I released 1,500,000 kg of CO2 in the last month

I doubt the accuracy of this calculator. :P

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

55. Wow!! what did you eat?

:rofl:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

47. 10.3, I'm Living Large ...

and if I ever get A/C for the house, I'll be living HUGH!!?!! Maybe somewhere near Gore and Edwards.

:rofl:

[XemaSab]

48. 2.7

That's better than 1,500,000. :P

[guitar man]

50. I can't calculate mine

Harley Davidson isn't in the list :shrug:

[Maddy McCall]

51. Mine is higher than average...

for no other reason than that I commute quite a distance to work, which puts my annual mileage over 20,000.

[Maddy McCall]

52. .

[China_cat]

53. Mine's average

but I object to the way some things are calculated...such as the electricity use. We have some of the highest electricity and gas rates in the country and it would have made more sense to calculate it on the actual usage rather than the cost. It should have allowed an absolute zero for the things you don't use instead of a range and it should have also included things like more than one car.

[evlbstrd]

54. 1.6

I'm stunned.