Carbon Offset

Ok so it's been awhile but I'm back! so I wanted to feature the carbon footprint today. Basically finding out what yours is and what you can do to help your own. Why is this important? because this is our beautiful planet and we can ALL - weather wealthy or poor impact things in a positive way - as a matter of fact the less money you have, the more doing these things can impact you in a positive way - fortunately for us "turning green" also comes with the saving money benefit!! ok off the soap box - go to www.earthlab.com and you can either just do a carbon footprint calculator or sign up for the Earth Day 2008 challenge which basically says that in the next year you will work on making your carbon offset 15% less than it was or you can just use this to figure out your offset http://epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ind_calculator.html

or here is one more http://fightglobalwarming.com/carboncalculator.cfm this is a good one too.

ok so I will share my households personal calculator: My Earth Conservation Score is 358 and my carbon output is 15.2 tons/year (yikes!) and here is what they say about that score "Generally, scores range from 150 - 900, lower the better. Your ECP score is calculated based on six categories related to Home, Energy, Work, Commute, Travel and Lifestyle. The average score in the US is 325; in Canada is 305."

I actually thought that it would be higher considering both my honey and I commute 60 miles a day total. He does ride his motorcycle pretty frequently and I drive my 4 cylinder truck everyday so I guess it's better than what it could be!

Next up I will share what I am doing so far...