Just wonder how environmentally friendy you consider yourself to be. I do all the usual recycling, short trips walk/bike etc but other than that probably not much more. I appreciate that large organisations need to change more than individuals but I feel that I could be doing more.
So what stuff to you do that you consider to be better for the environment?
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How environmentally friendly are you?
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I've recently stopped slashing and burning rain forest in order to breed beef cows for Macdonalds
You can **** right off if you expect me to close down my leaky nuclear reactor too. I've done my ****ing bit, George ****ing Monbiot!
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I'm "Green Champion" at our office at work.
For what difference that makes.
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I dont have a car, so i've done my bit.
Oooops, better go switch the lights off in the hallway. Shall i stop farting too?
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I haven't taken a plane flight (other than two unavoidable work trips) since 2006.
<shameless plug>We made this ecological footprint calculator that gives you a bit of a simplified rating of your green-ness</shameless plug>. I scored about 1.6.
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No car, don't buy new consumer products often, don#t buy food that has been flown, cycle / walk most places.
fly short haul every couple of years, live in a hard to heat house.
Usual mixed bag. Better than the average in the UK by a long way, still not sustainable probably
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I do everything I can regarding eco friendly cleaning products, recycling, walk and cycle whereever I can, super insulated house, solar panels on roof and much more.
The problem is though that I average 4 transatlantic flights a month which pretty much nulls and voids everything else I do.
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Work from home.
Use the car once a month at most (wife once a week).
Use the train on the odd occasion I have to travel long distance.
Rarely fly.
Log burner for bulk of heating (local wood).
All LED/low energy lighting.
Massively insulated house.
I prefer to salvage/restore than buy new.I am an utter hypocrite though. Despite all my hippy credentials I couldn't care less about the environment.
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I average 4 transatlantic flights a month which pretty much nulls and voids everything else I do
Probably by a factor of 1000. I love to travel but even with only a couple of trips by air recently its over one third of my carbon footprint.Posted 5 months ago # -
I endeavour to keep a massive pile of old car tyres burning furiously
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Only use the air conditioning when it gets really hot, like 25ºC+.
Make sure I'm getting the best triple glazing available by visiting as many showrooms as possible, too many cowboys on the internet.
Insulating the house properly, the cost of running all this technology is getting ridiculous and one has to make savings where one can.
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I knit my own yoghurt
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I'm Trudy Styler
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I hold my breath every so often
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+ Got rid of my car and motorbike.
+ Make all my personal journey by train or cycle.
+ The majority of my work is in an environmental monitoring capacity.- I'm racking up about 90,000 airmiles in the next 4 months, very possibly more.
I think my carbon footprint is visible from space.
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We made this ecological footprint calculator that gives you a bit of a simplified rating of your green-ness
Hmm - scored 2.03, but it says 34% of my impact is stuff, despite selecting the lowest impact option for all of those apart from DIY tools. Does £60-£70 of tools really have that much impact?Then again, it didn't ask about expenditure on sports kit
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I scored 1.87 onthat calculator and high on stuff even tho like aracer it was only diy tools
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I've never punched an endangered species....
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I average 4 transatlantic flights a month which pretty much nulls and voids everything else I do
If they're for work, they're your employer's problem not yours. (Though, you might be able to suggest ways of avoiding them?)
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Very
I will decompose just like the rest of you.
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1.77
And we actually try quite hard to make the right environmental choices.
I suspect that this calculator won't produce a figure lower than 1 (less than one earth required to support everyone at this level of consumption) unless you are vegetarian and probably have no car.
I am hardly reassured by the knowledge that there are a lot of people in India and Africa who fall into that category.
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All of our rubbish is recycled or composted apart from plastic films.
Grow my own veg in summer
I try to avoid food that is flown
I often work from homeUnfortunately I do an average of 3 flights a month with work which destroys all that.
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I'm trying to reduce the amount of methane I produce but I'm feeling a bit bloated as a result
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I am only mildly reassured by the knowledge that there are a lot of people in India and Africa who fall into that category.
Adding more people that don't use much to reduce average consumption! Genius!Ahhh... hang on... that won't work.
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2.58 on the calc here - much more work required. Some good ideas at reducing the impact on this thread
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1.85 on the WWF calculator. (including Madame and a son who travels more than us)
The calculator doesn't take into account producing 60% more electricity than we use, doesn't allow me to include a 13-year-old in the household, doesn't include portion size in the meat/fish thing (we eat meat or fish everyday in moderation). Makes me count 2h of car use a week which is over double what we use (5000km/year). Doesn't allow you to state that you live in house that is down to "passive house" energy consumption.
In short, it assumes you are standard and to really make a difference you have to be non-standard. I played with the thing before they blocked a second attempt and it's impossible to get to 1 unless you're a homeless vegan. In reality a much higher level of economic activity is sustainable if we adopt a new lifestyle and technologies.
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+ I don't have a car (although my wife does, and uses it pretty much every day) and will take the train whenever possible
+ Not much of a consumer of products/gizmos
+ Aiming to do most trips abroad by boat/train in future where possible- I think my (rented) house is probably quite bad (all lights are clusters of halogens I think)
- I have to fly for work sometimesSo maybe a bit better than average but mixed bag like most others it seems.
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Your footprint is
2.51 planetsI is massive
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3.81 for me but heavily influenced by air travel for work (once a month in europe on average) and a lot of driving (mostly commuting). Not ideal by any means but I do what I can at home.
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2.91 oops
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1.69
Is that bad, I have no idea what 1.69 means?
[edit]There was no option for growing your own veg either?
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4.94
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i'm cleaning a large engine casing by hand, and disposing of the cleaning rags, to avoid 2cubic centimeters of non-toxic silt being washed into the drain.
i'm a f***ing eco-warrior!
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Best thing you can do is not have kids.
or if you have some, kill them.All the rest of the stuff is bobbins.
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I'm not having kids - so I'm a load more environmental than most of the breeders round here!
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