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jogillespie(17271)
Work out my carbon footprint, then work out how to reduce it. (closed)
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| Number of ratings | 2 |
| Date published | 08-Oct-2008 |
| Last updated | 10-Oct-2008 |
| No. of respondents | 11 |
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Tracy (22380)
There's a calculator to help work it out on here:
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/
I hope that's useful, I wanted to look up more info, but my computer is extremely bad at the moment!
BTW I like the new pic you've put up! :D
| Date published | 08-Oct-2008 |
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jogillespie (17271)
wow....our carbon footprint is approximately 10 tonnes! Country average for ITaly is 7 tonnes. My goodness! I couldn't do it properly as I don't know how much electricity we use each year, and so guessed, but could have been way off. Also the car mileage was fudged, but I do do a lot of driving, as we live in such a small town, a long way from where I work! Also I have at least one flight to London each year...
So now just need to work on offsetting it...or reducing it!
| Date published | 08-Oct-2008 |
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Tracy (22380)
Did you find any good tips on the site for reducing your carbon footprint?
| Date published | 08-Oct-2008 |
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Kosko (5485)
http://stopglobalwarming.care2.com/ you can offset 1 pound of CO2 each day with a free click of a button.(they use the many from adds to improve the enviroment. They also have other causes you can help with and it only takes a few seconds). It's not much but it adds up.
| Date published | 09-Oct-2008 |
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Tracy (22380)
Aww I wanted to check it out, but that site doesn't work on my computer either. It sounds good though, Kosko!
| Date published | 09-Oct-2008 |
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Kosko (5485)
werid tracy, any idea as to why? I've been having this problem a lot this past month with moving to another country and know lots of solution maybe one of them would be of help to you...
| Date published | 09-Oct-2008 |
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Tracy (22380)
I'm not sure, I haven't been able to open my emails at all since Tuesday, I can't access facebook, some pages try to load but never make it, others load, but are just a jumble of text. I've tried re-registering dll files, I've tried deleting temp internet files, cookies etc, but all with no luck. It might be something to do with an out of date DNS server, but I have no idea what to do about that, I think that's on my ISPs end?
| Date published | 09-Oct-2008 |
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Tracy (22380)
Yes, it's the DNS thing on the ISPs end. I can't get on to them because I'm not the bill payer, they refuse to deal with me. I just have to hope that everyone else will the same ISP reports the problem and it gets resolved quickly!
| Date published | 09-Oct-2008 |
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jogillespie (17271)
Great site, Kosko, thanks! I am signing up as I type! And btw,, you can call me Jo! JoGillespie is a little wieldy to type :-)
| Date published | 09-Oct-2008 |
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Tracy (22380)
Sorry for the computer talk during your mission, Jo!
| Date published | 09-Oct-2008 |
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Kosko (5485)
Yeah, I'm glad that you like it Jo :) Tracy I hope you get that sorted out soon, it sounds like a nightmare. Sorry for the off topic talk. Lets see if I can be more productive here, An inconvient Truth is a great movie that is all about climate change a must see if you haven't already although I can't remember if they give tips or not.
ABC did a story on this a few years ago that has some tips and facts you might be interested in and some websites to check out: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=2049304&page=1
This site also has a list of 50 things that you can do to reduce your carbon imprint, although I hate the font they used there is lots of good e=info here. http://www.metroactive.com/metro/08.15.07/50-ways-to-go-green-0733.html
I hope that's of some help Jo and congrats for doing something to help save the planet.
| Date published | 10-Oct-2008 |
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