Ok, I am 22 years old and I go to college in Oklahoma. I have to drive about 1.5 miles and then back 4 days a week to campus cuz we don't have dorms and I also make 2 trips downtown a week for groceries and I drive an 80 mile round-trip to visit my parents once every 2 weeks. I live in a 1 bedroom apt that is all electric, my bill is about 70 dollars a month for December - March, about 40 for April-May and Septemebr-November and about 90 for June - August. I drive a car that gets 32 mpg. I am a vegetarian and I only have organic dairy products and no eggs. I spend about 25 dollars a week on groceries. I do buy a lot of packaged stuff though and Fruity Pebbles.
About what is my carbon footprint do you think?
2007-06-12 09:44:50 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
louey, you come live in Oklahoma in the summer and see if you want to part with that AC!!!!!
2007-06-12 11:22:46 · update #1
Assuming you do your recycling, I'm estimating your annual CO2 footprint at 11,890 pounds. (That's pounds of carbon dioxide; to get pounds of carbon, divide by 3.67)
The average American has a CO2 footprint of over 20,000 pounds.
2007-06-12 12:46:32 · answer #1 · answered by Keith P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I frankly have never seen a formula to figure such out published. Organic foods do not change it, tho. All electric increases the total carbon footprint, by moving the combustion a ways away where there are transmission losses
Packaged burns up energy in making the packaging and putting the products in, along with all the printing typical. The inks often have heavy metals in them which are poisonous. and toxic preservatives...has to be toxic to kill microscopic life..(Many boxes burn with a greenish flame from the release of copper into the environment.)
So that increases general pollution, tho not the carbon footprint.
You probably can do as much as anything to reduce the total footprint by shutting off the A/C!!
2007-06-12 10:30:15 · answer #2 · answered by looey323 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
that's approximately administration and skill. Nurture the phobia till the loads are ripe for the identifying on. The "oil for food" crowd on the UN needs 80 two billion a 12 months from the U. S. to "help poor worldwide places manage worldwide warming". a company that isn't be in a position to pay that's parking tickets in NYC is going to redistribute our wealth and shop the worldwide...... seek for taxes, bans, and new law aimed squarely at your wallet and your means to make a residing whilst the elite jet off to Bali to "communicate worldwide warming matters"even however guy's result has yet to be empirically shown. Hypocrisy abounds and the present form is "green". C02 has been ruled a pollutant by technique of the EPA. which means the very air we exhale is a pollutant and can be taxed. Carbon credit are in basic terms a bypass for the wealthy to proceed their carbon orgy whilst lining their wallet with our funds.
2016-12-12 19:20:40 · answer #3 · answered by hillhouse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's with your obsession with fruity pebbles?
Here's a couple of carbon footprint calculators, if you're interested.
2007-06-12 09:48:08 · answer #4 · answered by Dana1981 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just leave it up to GOD he took care of it when he put plants here to recycle our air and start the process of fossil fuel recycling . That is how he has done it for millions of years. That is where all our fossil fuels came from.
2007-06-12 11:21:07 · answer #5 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
These Web sites can help you figure out what your imapct is...
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/USA/calculator.html
http://www.safeclimate.net/calculator/
http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalculator/
http://carbonfund.org/site/pages/calculator/
From what you have said it will be pretty low. Keep up the good work.
2007-06-12 11:54:05 · answer #6 · answered by darkferrie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say your shoe size is about a 5
2007-06-16 06:02:15 · answer #7 · answered by hardwoodrods 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋