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[kettunainen]

Time to clean up the tabs!

Life, Art and Chickens, Afloat on a Barge in New York Harbor Waterpod, Ahoy!

Amazing Lightning Show Over Toronto gorgeous photos from a massive thunderstorm from about a week ago.

EarthSky's meteor shower guide for 2009 Just missed the Perseids

Wild Food Recipes from "Wild Man Steve Brill" And now I know what to do

Comments

[kettunainen]

i did a bit more research, re IKEA, last night: they don't use brominated fire retardants in their mattresses and they don't use formaldehyde in any of their fabrics or... something else, but there are traces of it in the glue they use for their particle board materials. They're working on getting all of their wood sourced from FSC forests.

[kettunainen]

oh, please go back and check those boxes that you think don't apply:

minimal use of landscaping equipment: check - use is so minimal that I don't even do it!

avoid washing car frequently: check - I avoid it so much as to not do it at all, seeing as how I have NO CAR!

avoid hosing down decks and sidewalks: check - I avoid it so much as to not do it at all

[goldoyster]

Chapters has a bunch of 'eco-friendly' notebooks right now.

[plumjudy]

sob! we need 2.5 earths!

[plumjudy]

ok, I did the google map thing for travel...and fixed that, and did some other tweaking like you suggested above. I'm down to 1.9 earths...
my food footprint is the highest (17.8). I don't have the time available to shop at farmers markets right now (AND Jason is a little behind the times in that respect lol. he does the shopping right now *shakes fist at him*) my total is 30.79. there are a bunch of things on there that I can't do anything about because we rent.
Jesus, the average is SO high, It makes me wanna barf.

[kettunainen]

yeah, the avg IS high, isn't it? O_o

We do what we can, where and when we can.

*hugs*

miss you!

[misslynx]

I was initially disappointed with my results, because it still said that if everyone lived like me we'd need 1.29 Earths, but really, I think I'm still doing better than most people. On the chart that compares you to your national average, I was way lower than average even on my highest category (goods & services - mine was 8.0, national average 25.1). And some of my others were really low (housing 2.0!). My total score was 20.31.

Actually, looking at your results, now I'm confused. If your total score was 22 and that equated to 0.59 earths, how did my score of 20.31 equate to 1.29 earths? And for that matter, I would think I'd have a higher score than you - you guys are definitely hardercore than I am on a lot of this stuff...

[kettunainen]

yeah... I don't get that either. I just redid the quiz in a different tab linked from your results and I got the exact same as before:

http://www.myfootprint.org/en/your_results/?id=504692

I'm thinking it's possibly because the energy we DO use is entirely renewable (Bullfrog), so while you and I may use the same amount of energy, yours comes from nonrenewable resources and therefore creates a higher cost/score.

[misslynx]

Yes, maybe some things have a bigger impact on the earths equivalent than others. I was assuming that it was just a function of your overall total, but evidently it's not. Your carbon footprint and goods and services footprints are considerably lower than mine, while my food and housing footprints are lower (not sure why on either of those two, unless they're multiplying yours by people in the household or something). So it may be that carbon footprint counts for more in how they calculate the earths equivalent.