We Heart Earth

A great way to learn about how to reduce your impact on this earth is to go to www.carbonfootpring.com and start doing some calculations.  Whether it’s for yourself, your business, or both, get to know your carbon footprint.  It makes all the difference in the world to just be aware.  And once you are aware, you’ll find yourself doing things to offset your carbon footprint just because you are now informed.  The more knowledge you gain about the environment the more you’re going to want to do.  It’s just that simple.  For more helpful links, click here. 

Simple Steps to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

Here are some excerpts of an interesting article I came across yesterday.  Sustainable living - The language of Carbon written by Shawn Dell Joyce. 

“Carbon Offsets: The most popular method of lowering your carbon footprint is to offset all or part of your emissions by purchasing carbon credits, or offsets, in the form of wind energy being fed into the national electric grid. You can find out more about this at www.NativeEnergy.com.” 

“Carbon Footprint: U.S. Green Building Council Chairman Rick Fedrezzi recently said, “Some day our income tax will be tied to our carbon footprint.” The average American household has a carbon footprint of about 22,000-50,000 pounds per year. Your carbon footprint is a measurement of carbon emissions generated by your specific lifestyle. Find out what yours is at www.carbonfund.org . After you get over the shock, you might want to lower that figure. Going on a “low-carbon diet” doesn’t mean you need to stop breathing, read David Gershon’s book “Low Carbon Diet” and find out how to trim 5,000 ugly pounds of carbon from your carbon footprint.”

“We have witnessed carbon concentrations leap from 280 parts per million before the Industrial Revolution to 383 ppm today, a record high for the past 600,000 years.”