Fab Friday Feature

Today's feature: Calculate your Carbon Footprint

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases we produce. It is measured in units of carbon dioxide.

I truly believe that every American should do this!! Just Google Carbon footprint and there are tons of websites that do all the calculations for you. Choose a site that calculates more than just the state you live in and what kind of car you drive, carbonfootprint.com is a good one, but I am sure there are more.

I view myself as being pretty environmentally friendly. I don't drive a hybrid, but I shop organically and locally whenever possible, try not to by items with packaging, don't fly often, etc. but man my footprint is HUGE (huge being a relative word since sadly mine is about 3x smaller than the US average)

Here are my results:
My carbon footprint 7.01 tonnes.
The average American's footprint 20.4
The average world wide carbon footprint 4 tonnes.

But......
To combat climate change the world wide average needs to be 2 tonnes

Crazy huh!!