How To: Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
Hello!
This is an exercise we did in one of my classes for my Master's in Public Health (MPH) and I loved getting a real assessment and have done this calculation every year since then to see how we're doing. We started at a 14 as a household and have made it down to a 7 in the past three years by making some changes and being more conscious of the impact of our actions.
Essentially you just input your information to the best of your knowledge and this option from the EPA gives you the ability to "commit" to your goals for the coming year to see what effect you can have if you stick to them. It gives me a little extra motivation, especially to just put on a sweater in the winter rather than turn the heat up in the house.
Other things that are brought up are:
- switching your energy to 'clean energy' which can typically be done, or might already be done through your electric provider
- drying your clothes on a line rather than a dryer (we've done that exclusively since January and it honestly doesn't take significantly longer, we're talking maybe an extra five to ten minutes)
- using public transportation rather than a private vehicle
- turning down/up the thermostat by two degrees for the winter/summer respectively
That's all for today, happy calculating!
💛 Jess
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