Do No Evil – This simple carbon calculator shows you how your daily lifestyle and behaviors affect climate change. It uses real science, it's easy to use, and it helps you make better decisions about how to reduce the impacts from global warming. I got a 32 -- what's your score?
I did better on this 'test' than the last one I took, & am below the national average. The flying kills it for a really good score, but there's no way I can fix that.
I think I had a 7.4 for me and 30 for the household; however, you sense the calculator is skewed, and how it was calculated is by EPA, a laugh to anyone who knows what they do and who they hire. I've come to distrust almost any government agency, especially EPA and OSHA. Overly educated idiots...with no common sense.
I refused to buy a pager or a cell phone. If I could do without a telephone I would. I live in an original soddie or sod house build in the 1800's and modernized as each generation moved into it. They will not permit you to build one like that now. It was grandfathered in because my great grandfather built it. The walls are 3-6 foot thick, made of earth, and it takes little energy to heat the house, nor cool it in summer. The garage and attic are over insulated. We grow most of our own vegetables and the meat we eat is pasture grass fed beef, which is actually good for you, not like feed lot beef which is full of hormones and antibiotics. Good score, who knows?
New cars have gadgets in them that we don't need (blame the auto mfg). They add weight. When you get too lazy to roll down your own windows, turn on and off your own lights, and have to have air conditioning and climate control in your vehicle, perhaps you should not be driving? Mine have 2-60 air conditioning and armstrong steering. You roll down two windows and drive 60, and you better have strong arms because there is no power assist steering. Once you're moving you don't need power steering. Many of us have to drive to work, some of us fly once in a while, just not every day. You cannot afford the water to raise your own garden any more, and the electric company literally rapes the consumers now.
And the worst thing of all is that WE THINK more government invervention will help. Oh please...most of these people are idiots! They could not pour sand out of their shoes if the instructions were printed on the bottom.
I had a neighbor once that was an avid recyler, almost paranoidic. The trash company charged him an extra $10 a month to pick up glass, paper, and plastic, which he had to seperate into their bins. He wanted me to do it, but I told him I'd seen the trash company pick up his trash. They threw it all in the back of the same truck. They were just charging him an extra $10 a month. Once day he waited and watched. Then he'd drive 10 miles to deliver it, of course not realizing it was costing him gasoline, plus wear and tear, and probably more greenhouse emissions, and the worst kind?
Water vapor is a greenhouse gas. We breath it out. Same with CO2. Maybe we should all quit breathing to stop greenhouse gases. Did you know that oxygen is also a greenhouse gas?? I didn't think so. Guess we better get rid of O2 and water too.
As far as recycling, the city of Bremerton, Washington charges everyone a recycling fee whether you recycle or not. I refuse to do it. The only thing I recycle is newspaper (for the boy scouts) and aluminum cans because I get PAID for them.
In most cities those stories, which were VERY true a few years ago, are now tales of yore. As the economics of trash disposal chance they will be even more remore memories.
Believe me, most cities and their trash pickup facilities haven't become any smarter. I watched one yesterday as they were going down the street. Not only were they picking up the trash, but they were tossing the trash cans in the back of the truck as well. When those folks come home they will have no trash cans. I bet they call the police but who would steal a trash can?
wow, your house sounds amazing! I'm growing my own vegetables this year, my first try. Am using large pots, as we have a huge 'slug' problem here (& I'm not about to hand pick them for disposal! ewww) We only eat fish twice a week, and are sort of vegetarians the rest of the time. I have had pasture fed beef, however. Beef is raised here by the pasture method, without hormones, etc. We can order it online, and they have it to us within two days. Every now and then I do enjoy a good roast.
The difference in the taste between pasture fed beef and feedlot beef is like day and night. I can taste it, probably only because I know the difference. Probably one of the best ways is to look at the label. If it says genuine Angus or genuine Hereford, you are probably getting pastured beef. Most feedlots cannot afford to buy the calves of either of these breeds, and most of the professional cattlemen keep their calves until they are ready for the meat market itself, which means the animal until about 48 hours before it becomes a roast has had little or no stress.
We used to have two bedrooms and a path. It now has 4 bedrooms and a bath, and the additions to it were made of sod as well. My grandfather would not have a board house as he put it next to his home. It would either be made of sod too or he would not stand for an outhouse nailed to his soddie. So we did. Dug the sewers and water lines before we put it on, went to the same place he and his father had cut sod for the house, and it looks like the rest of the house, with one exception. The bathroom has formica walls and a tile floor, and a big white tub with a wooden ring around it. The tub itself I think is over 100 years old, the stove in the house is a Queen Stove, with two 30 gallon tanks of water on each side. Once heated the water will warm the kitchen and living room the rest of the night without a fire. We burned cow chips, old fence posts, and a little bit of coal. Other than that if the electiricty goes out, we could care less. It's just dark.
You are throwing your money away. Why is it patriotic to squander resources? It's because your "patriotism" is loyalty to anything liberals hate. That makes you a REACTIONARY. Since you think it's the lack of Jesus in people's lives that cause them to get raped, you are a Christian Supremacist. You are an extreme partisan who puts your political affiliation above the lives of innocent people. You are a conspiracy theorist because everything you find a way to blame on liberals. You repeat the war propaganda regarding Muslims, which makes you a racist. If you think Rush Limbaugh "makes sense" and that "people should listen to him", then you are a FASCIST. Just remember, no matter how much you love Bush & Co, they have nothing but contempt for you. Loyalty gets you nowhere.
Dude, why you boasting about this? It just kinda makes you sound like a bit of a ******. It's not terribly patriotic to deliberately speed up processes that will eventually change the face of the earth as we know it, making the whole planet less viable for life. That will include America, you know. And lets not forget all the environmental refugees that will be flocking to you soon enough.
6.5 was my footprint - not too bad, but could do better....
Be careful not to break your CF bulbs - She was referred to the DEP's environmental response team. A specialist who responded found mercury readings more than six times the state's acceptable level at the spot of the broken bulb.
Readings a few feet from the spot where the bulb broke were within safe levels.
The specialist referred Bridges to an environmental cleanup company. The estimated cost, according to Bridges, was about $2,000.
DEP officials said homeowners can safely clean up broken bulbs on their own by following careful instructions and wearing gloves, safety glasses, coveralls & respiratory protection.
Never vacuum the mess. Vacuuming will only spread dust containing mercury and contaminate the vacuum.
Both DEP & federal EPA recommend removing larger pieces and placing them in a secure container. Smaller pieces & dust particles can be removed using two stiff pieces of paper a disposable broom & dustpan, duct tape or a mercury spill kit.
Libs - although I hesitate to respond and confirm your idiocy, its too difficult not to.
What you continue to demonstrate is exactly what you claim to despise. That is the concept of entitlement - you feel that you can consume and waste any amount of resource just because you can. The repugnancy of that behavior is exactly what has made this country loathed by the rest of the world.
Please keep your boorish behavior to yourself.
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I got a 22 for the family and 7.4 as an individual. Again most of it in food......apparently that is the real kicker for me.
Sure this calculates carbon use but what about a cow flatulence calculator?
This is such a bunch of BS. Carbon is not the problem. Carbon is part of every organic compound in the world. Charcol briquetts are carbon, pencil lead is carbon. Humans are carbon, alcohol is carbon, clam shells are carbon, limestone is carbon.Diamonds are PURE carbon. Diamonds would have zero effect on what the screamers call global warming. Carbon is NOT the problem everyone is whining about, Carbon Dioxide is. Carbon Monoxide has carbon, auto tires have carbon, dead frogs have carbon. You can dump carbon all over the earth by the megaton and do nothing but make a mess. Carbon is not the problem, Carbon dioxide is and even that is taken care naturally in a cycle called the Carbon cylcle. Chocolate candy bars are carbon, bugs are carbon, lizards are carbon. milk is carbon. Step on a charcol briquette and you leave a carbon footprint.
You don't have a clue about carbon compounds and light?
Oil and coal are carbon compounds that have been stored in the earth in a liquid or solid state. When burned they are not in the earth - they are in the air. Under the ground and in the air are quite different.
Whether this makes any difference or not in terms of global warming, I am not sure. but your premise that gaseous carbon is the same as solid or liqid carbon is not correct.
the only thing that matters is how long they stay air born, when it rains they come down and then they are back in the earth, the whole concept is questionable.
It depends on how it is burned. When burning wood in a fireplace this is correct. There are many polutants in wood, which are sent into the air when burned in a fireplace. Plus, the burning process in not usually as efficient as coal oil or methane burners.
Carbon as CO2 does not come back to earth when it rains (except for a very small amount that is disolved as carbonic acid). I beilieve you are confusing CO2 and particulate carbon.
some scintists suggest global warning is the biggest load of bs currently out there. check google top 100 videos.
PT Barnum WAS right. You CAN fool some of the people all of the time. The tree hugging libs have convinced millions that they are all going to die from global warming and the earth will be destroyed. Cataclysmic events greater than any global warming event have occured thousands of times in the earth's history and it is still here with zero help from us. To think that we have the capability of destroying the earth is the height of arrogance.
Cows are bred intensively to provide meat for humans. Not only do they fart like crazy, produsing methane which is one of the worse greenhouse gases (and if you think that's funny, think about all the cows in the world farting at once - and tremble!), but in their feed, they consume enough grains to feed 12 times more people than they themselves feed - so we can add into the mix wastefulness in terms of energy consumption and possible ethical difficulties. Then there's their habitat - they use nuff space up dude, space that is often made from clearing forests which could have been producing oxygen and supporting different life forms. There's other stuff, but basically eating meat isn't wonderful for the environment, even leaving beside concerns over animal welfare.
You know I've never heard a cow fart and I was raised on a real cattle ranch. Horses fart when you feed them alphalfa instead of hay but other than that you don't have that problem.
One of the things I've always been grateful for though, is that cows cannot fly. Imagine that in your hair or on your arm from 100 feet.... (lol)
You'll find that beef from feedlots is really disgusting, not only the taste but for your health, but the cattle that are raised on grasslands, have a natural anti oserperois acid in them. They aren't force fed anti biotics and steriods.
4 legged animals are actually quite nice. It's the two legged animals that I worry about.
LOL, is that your contribution to global climate change...your flatulence? As a cow, how do you type?
No offense intended, I just thought the opening was too much fun to ignore.
Peace.
Actually Cow flatulence is is a significant topic in Cow circles (but not global warming). If the food that goes to methane (cow fart) could be diverted to Cow steak, the cow growers would be happy floks indeed. It turns out that quite a bit of the food that cows eat is just farted away.
cows usually don't fart, they poop, and believe it or not a fresh bucket of cow poop,if you put your feet in it will immediately get rid of fungus and athletes foot. So too will yellow mustard but that stains your feet. At least the cow poop you can wash off afterwards...and the feel between your toes is awsome!