Comments on: What Size is Your Carbon Footprint? http://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/what-size-is-your-carbon-footprint/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-size-is-your-carbon-footprint Expert Home Improvement Advice Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:31:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: What Size is Your Carbon Footprint Home Construction Improvement | Portable Greenhousehttp://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/what-size-is-your-carbon-footprint/#comment-12023 What Size is Your Carbon Footprint Home Construction Improvement | Portable Greenhouse Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:24:59 +0000 http://localhost/test/2008/06/what-size-is-your-carbon-footprint/#comment-12023 [...] What Size is Your Carbon Footprint Home Construction Improvement Posted by root 13 minutes ago (http://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com) Your estimated greenhouse gas emissions are 22 tons of carbon dioxide co2 equivalent per year add your comment below or trackback from your own site powered by wordpress log in entries rss comments rss arthemia Discuss  |  Bury |  News | What Size is Your Carbon Footprint Home Construction Improvement [...] [...] What Size is Your Carbon Footprint Home Construction Improvement Posted by root 13 minutes ago (http://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com) Your estimated greenhouse gas emissions are 22 tons of carbon dioxide co2 equivalent per year add your comment below or trackback from your own site powered by wordpress log in entries rss comments rss arthemia Discuss  |  Bury |  News | What Size is Your Carbon Footprint Home Construction Improvement [...]

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]]> By: timothy gerlinghttp://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/what-size-is-your-carbon-footprint/#comment-8185 timothy gerling Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:39:53 +0000 http://localhost/test/2008/06/what-size-is-your-carbon-footprint/#comment-8185 Took the calculator, there are 3 adults in the household and we are pretty mindful of our energy consumption. My 85 year mother in law never drives, she walks to the store. We carpool to work 16 miles each way 5 days a week and rarely use our automobile on the weekends. We constantly struggle to get the others in our complex and building management to get recyclable material out of the trash compactor. We even got a worm farm to so most food scraps are now turned into worm poo which we use on our plants.The calculator gave us a 21 for a household of 3 and that is just 3 points above the world average of 18. Wish we could do more, I think we really need to "reverse" not just stay even with the carbon emissions but I know that will be a tough battle here in the US. From someone who was born and raised here we are often the technology leaders, just not sure what is going to take for us to get our act together, maybe energy has been so cheap for so long here we are out of touch with the rest of the world. Took the calculator, there are 3 adults in the household and we are pretty mindful of our energy consumption. My 85 year mother in law never drives, she walks to the store. We carpool to work 16 miles each way 5 days a week and rarely use our automobile on the weekends. We constantly struggle to get the others in our complex and building management to get recyclable material out of the trash compactor. We even got a worm farm to so most food scraps are now turned into worm poo which we use on our plants.

The calculator gave us a 21 for a household of 3 and that is just 3 points above the world average of 18. Wish we could do more, I think we really need to “reverse” not just stay even with the carbon emissions but I know that will be a tough battle here in the US. From someone who was born and raised here we are often the technology leaders, just not sure what is going to take for us to get our act together, maybe energy has been so cheap for so long here we are out of touch with the rest of the world.

]]> By: Carbon Footprint Results | Home Construction Improvementhttp://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/what-size-is-your-carbon-footprint/#comment-2913 Carbon Footprint Results | Home Construction Improvement Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:39:10 +0000 http://localhost/test/2008/06/what-size-is-your-carbon-footprint/#comment-2913 [...] week I wrote a post asking my readers “What Size is Your Carbon Footprint?”. The results were rather interesting. A total of nine households responded and all nine were below [...] [...] week I wrote a post asking my readers “What Size is Your Carbon Footprint?”. The results were rather interesting. A total of nine households responded and all nine were below [...]

]]> By: Anitahttp://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/what-size-is-your-carbon-footprint/#comment-413 Anita Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:13:00 +0000 http://localhost/test/2008/06/what-size-is-your-carbon-footprint/#comment-413 I'm a little late getting to this one...<br/>Your estimated greenhouse gas emissions are 70 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent per year, which is below the U.S. national average.<br/><br/>That's for our family of 7. <br/><br/>Our biggest impact is, of course, our house considering the size... but then we have no choice but to reduce energy usage and improve efficiency as much as possible so that we can <i>afford</i> a +5 bedroom house. :) Second impact - food... Seven people eat lots... <br/><br/>We offset these things compared to the national average in travel, for the most part... We do not travel by air.. Actually we don't travel at all. No room for planning 'vacations' when the threat of evacuation comes up each year. (Our footprint would obviously be higher during those years when we do have to evacuate.) And despite our ownership of a very large gas-guzzling SUV and a very small gas-guzzling Jeep exclusively -- both vehicles are rarely used. The huge SUV leaves the driveway for a 10 mile round trip to the grocery store about once per week, for instance.<br/><br/>Now if only we could do something about the greenhouse emissions from the Chevron refinery 1.5 miles from our house..... I’m a little late getting to this one…
Your estimated greenhouse gas emissions are 70 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent per year, which is below the U.S. national average.

That’s for our family of 7.

Our biggest impact is, of course, our house considering the size… but then we have no choice but to reduce energy usage and improve efficiency as much as possible so that we can afford a +5 bedroom house. :) Second impact – food… Seven people eat lots…

We offset these things compared to the national average in travel, for the most part… We do not travel by air.. Actually we don’t travel at all. No room for planning ‘vacations’ when the threat of evacuation comes up each year. (Our footprint would obviously be higher during those years when we do have to evacuate.) And despite our ownership of a very large gas-guzzling SUV and a very small gas-guzzling Jeep exclusively — both vehicles are rarely used. The huge SUV leaves the driveway for a 10 mile round trip to the grocery store about once per week, for instance.

Now if only we could do something about the greenhouse emissions from the Chevron refinery 1.5 miles from our house…..

]]> By: Paulhttp://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/what-size-is-your-carbon-footprint/#comment-412 Paul Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:04:00 +0000 http://localhost/test/2008/06/what-size-is-your-carbon-footprint/#comment-412 We came out as 34 (tons) for a family of four (US average 110 tons) Of course, the kids are still young. Our biggest plus, the solar hot water, our biggest minus, the two light SUV's that we drive. We can do something about that, I am looking at a smaller more fuel efficient car for driving back and forth to work. We came out as 34 (tons) for a family of four (US average 110 tons) Of course, the kids are still young. Our biggest plus, the solar hot water, our biggest minus, the two light SUV’s that we drive. We can do something about that, I am looking at a smaller more fuel efficient car for driving back and forth to work.

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