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Carbon footprint
Okay, so this is essentially an ad for buying BP's "green energy", and I have no idea about how green their energy really is. And the level of granularity doesn't (it surely matters how big your house is?)
Nonetheless, it's a pretty cool Java applet, and may motivate you to insulate your doors and windows. Who knows? We could make it a meme: post your carbon score...
My CO2 footprint is: 19 tonsWhat's yours? |
Eh? meme? Anyone?
Nineteen tons apparently is just exactly the US average. Startlingly, given how often I congratulate myself on all that riding on the Metro.
We have one car that we don't drive that much, and turn off lights and all that; but it's those long-haul flights to Switzerland that get us.
17 tons. Hah.
Posted by: tobias Buckell at December 7, 2005 05:05 PMBruce Sterling says they're cool. (But maybe that's just compared to ExxonMobil.)
Posted by: David Moles at December 7, 2005 11:32 PMunfortunately, swiss people can't participate :-(
so here's the swiss/non-BP variant: www.footprint.ch
if everyone acted like me, we'd need 1.7 planets to cover all energy needs (average: swiss 2.6, american 5.8)
hmmmm....
Posted by: rahel luethy at December 8, 2005 03:40 AMHo HO!
11 tons! In your FACE, Rosenbaum!
We actually spent a lot of time and money weatherproofing our house this year, tho. Also, between our 4-cylinder SUV and our 35 MPG Focus, we're doing pretty well in the mileage department. Although that said, if there were a place for miles driven/day, I'm sure my carbon score would have been higher.
peace
Posted by: matthulan at December 8, 2005 09:40 AMOops. There WAS a place for miles...
25 tons... I suck...
I'm officially out of your face, Ben.
Posted by: matthulan at December 8, 2005 09:43 AM15 tonnes... it's nice to be able to walk to work. One of my mental blocks towards moving to somewhere less expensive (which is pretty much anywhere besides NYC, I guess) is that I know I'd have to give that up.
Posted by: Dan Percival at December 8, 2005 12:00 PMHmm, I got 2.6 Earths on the Swiss quiz.
So I'm average for the US on one quiz, less than half that on the other -- which gives some sense of the margin of error. :-(
Posted by: Benjamin Rosenbaum at December 8, 2005 12:22 PM12 tons here... I live by myself in a detached, so using 100% renewable electricity is my one saving grace. (My electricity program also builds salmon ladders, but no credit for that in this quiz).
Posted by: Ethan at December 8, 2005 01:20 PMI took the quiz twice: once for two people in the house, once for just myself, but with the same values plugged in. It gave me the same number both times (22 tons) -- so I think multiple-person households get to split their outputs. Which means I get to claim 11 tons for myself, and you get to claim, what, 5 tons?
Damn, now I'm going to be late getting back to work because I just *had* to know my C02 output....
Posted by: Jackie M. at December 14, 2005 02:43 PMI got 13 tons, but there was a lot of vagueness/approximation in my answers. An Australian Carbon Neutral Calculator puts me at more like 25, but I think I misunderstood their air-travel system.
I've been trying to learn more about carbon offsets; something about the idea bugs me, but I haven't quite been able to articulate what. Do you know much about it?
--jed
Posted by: Jed at December 15, 2005 05:04 PM10 tonnes here, which apparently is greater than the UK average of 10 tonnes. Hm.
Posted by: Patrick Samphire at December 19, 2005 09:49 AM