So I actually intended on posting this yesterday, but got caught up with coming back to Vancouver and catching up with friends and trying to clean up my disastrous room!
Anyways!
The objective of this blog, and my New Year's resolution of sorts, is to try and incorporate a new environmentally friendly habit into my daily routine everyday for the next year. If you disagree with something that I post and see it as not environmentally friendly, or see the complexity of the issue - please feel free to tell me! If there is one thing I have learned, is that this is a very complex topic and at times it is difficult to decide what actually is useful for reducing ones carbon foot print.
Now, Kermit the frog always lamented that "it's not easy being green" - well, I hope to prove otherwise with a daily simple tip that you can incorporate into your life as well to be a little nicer to the only planet that we have.
My first task, and my challenge to you, is to calculate your carbon footprint (be honest here) and pledge to reduce it by, let's say at least a hectare by next year.
There is this really nifty site, http://myfootprint.org/ , that makes it really easy to calculate your carbon footprint - it even tells you have many Earth's we would need if everybody lived your lifestyle.
Now, as you may know I already do some things to try and reduce my footprint, so I thought I would be living a fairly environmentally-friendly lifestyle- wrong!
It would actually take 2.23 Earths to support life if everyone live my lifestyle, and my total carbon footprint is a whopping 35.05 hectares! Let's see if I can change that in 2011!
Happy New Year Everyone!
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