I started this blog in 2010 after reading an article by the National Academy of Sciences reporting results from a study indicating 33 specific household actions that will cut US carbon emissions by 123 million metric tons. I was inspired to step up to the plate and wanted to challange our family (and inspire others) to do our part. We made it only 17 days and then life ...(you know the story).


Fast forward three years: It's 2013 and I am re-inspired after attending three very eye opening films featured in our community's One Earth Film Festival. Our family is kicking off a new challange (more broad and perhaps less defined by a carbon metric) - to pursue one new action a day (for 365 days) that will positively affect climate change and sustainability. Let's see how far we make it!



Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Our Baseline

To start with I thought it best to attempt to calculate our current carbon footprint for a baseline.  To keep things simple I used The Nature Conservancy Carbon Footprint Calculator for our household of 4.  After answering a few quick questions, The Nature Conservancy predicted that our family's estimated emissions averages 92 tons of CO2/year.  I was pleased to see that we came in lower than the national average for a family of four which they calculated to be 110 CO2/year but drastically higher than the world's average of 22 CO2/year.
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