Texas Sized Foot Prints!

The start of every great journey begins with saying goodbye to where you currently are. Since we are starting our families journey towards a much greener lifestyle we figured we should take a look at where we are now… That’s where CarbonFootPrint.com comes into it’s own;

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx

The site has clear instructions on how to begin and pretty much the only rule is “be honest with yourself”.

The site walks you through several questions relating to your everyday energy consumption. We guiltily worked our way through the multiple choice questions, realizing at each stage that there were at least two “greener” options than the ones we picked.

After five pages of questions and answers we realized that our Carbon Footprint is probably more like a Yeti’s than an eco friendly tree hugger! So here are our results (keep in mind that we are just beginning our green journey!)

Martin and Katies Feb Footprint

Clearly our journey is going to be a long one, and we had better get started right now, apparently we produce approx 15 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year! The only encouraging aspect was that our “Yeti” print isn’t quite as large as the Countries average. The thing that shocked me was the infant sized world target for a persons Carbon Footprint… We have a loooong way to go.