MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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68%
75%
Way too high! Embrassed to answer : (
Richard
Trying hard to increase my carbon fibre footprint
53% for me but that's not a surprise seeing as I live on my own
101% but the travelling bit didn't mention cycling
70%
68%
49%
Only saving would be changing jobs so I did not spend as much time travelling to work - though i do cycle 50% of the time and buying local produce - not that easy as a vegan tbh
No flights probably helped though
86% not sure why it won't accept I walk to work.
173, what do I win ?
I didn't have to declare being a skier which is about the most polluting activity imaginable - whole towns stuck up mountains to accommodate skiers, artificial snow, machines moving it all night, transport to the resort. The only thing I had to declare was the bus to get there.
101%
I am below UK average.
73%
I blame the dogs.
Foreign holidays seem to cost a [b]lot[/b] of carbon.
duplicate.
I got 110% when I did it with no flights. which is some years, some years I go no flights, sometime I take a few. So based my original on 1 return flight. added an extra 27%! 😯
Over all it's a range of things I need to improve on, that's even me with no car, but travelling on bus and trains. should probably cycle more, last 2 years I essentially stopped commuting, arse in gear I think! I imagine that'll bring it down alot.
160% but I'm certain that is skewed by my job requirements of a huge amount of travel and eating away from home.
87% for me with some glaring omissions from the questionnaire
598% for SWMBO 😀 **** you planet earth
Edit loving the tips to walk or car pool. From Fife to Sydney!
49%
Solar panels
EV car
It's just a guestimate. They should really be asking:
annual gas consumption in m3 (0)
electricity in kWh +or- (-1500)
litres of petrol and diesel per year. (about 350l petrol for three people)
kms of flights (I too put 1 in but rarely fly because I detest flying)
kms of train (about 1500)
kms of bus/taxi (about1500)
m2 of property occupied
gms of meat/week
weight of recycling and disposal bins each week in kgs
polluting activities: skiing, swimming, mechanical sports,
Number of TVs, phones, computers, amplifiers, US made guitars, white goods, cameras... owned
decorating bills for the last ten years
51%, can I have a cookie or will that push it up?
It's just another one of those 'gaping holes' and assumptions type questionnaires though isn't it, but if it gets people thinking about their behaviour it can't do any harm
243% Did my long haul fights boost it?
243% Did my long haul fights boost it?
Scroll down on the results page and you'll get a breakdown
86%
102% WTF, I don't even have a car at the moment.
I fly to Spain twice a year to visit my elderly dad though, so I guess that's what tipped it. It's a bit far to cycle.
83%. Cats and a van to blame I suspect.
106% but isn't exactly accurate as the temp calc assumes that's the whole time.
Hopefully the real one is lots less
87% probably higher tbh.
88%
The travel part came to 27%, I either use the train or cycle to work, one medium haul flight in the last year for personal use, we've only one car between us.
396%
My palm oil plantation in Brazil bollocksed it right up for me.
Burning virgin rainforest is bad apparently. Don't do it kids.
93 footprints
90% with over 55% of that being related to a 4 bed house and only 2 adult occupants with oil central heating and no solar. My house only uses 1000 litres of oil per year for heating and hot water...my total energy bill is £700 for heating and electricity...
Not sure it's right, but hey ho.
125%, but I have no children so I am golden, I can do whatever the f*** I want to.
Can't wait to see the paper clip salesmen Flashearts results.
101%
I don't get it though? 1 European flight, recycle everything, and waste a tiny amount of food (usually just bread) I don't own a car and don't use public transport every day as a work from home and cycle a reasonable amount. Try and cook from scratch when I can and buy some of meat/veg from the farmers market.
Have insulated my loft to over the 270mm, fitted triple glazing and the latest smart storage heaters that are supposed to drop your bills by 20-25% all electric but my bills are less than £500 a year for heating/water/cooking.
Showers not baths and the washing machine only a couple of times a week (overnight on economy7) I don't even have any heat source in the bedroom as the rest of the flat keeps it warm enough.
I appreciate that having just 1 person in the flat is using up more energy then me and the other half co-habiting but how did that give a high score?
[quote=piemonster ]Can't wait to see the paper clip salesmen Flashearts results.
what he spends on shoes is bound to influence his score
92% here. It's quite clearly far too vague to be anywhere near accurate, though my lack of flights helps to make up for living in a big house and owning a big car.
63% but more due to the fact that I'm very poor rather than a lifestyle choice.
85%, flying to Nepal last autumn pushed it up.
57% but on the basis of the question loading it should be much lower as I eat my own home produced meat with most meals and drive a large diesel Landrover a total of about 4000 miles a year. Also my house is hot because the wood burner has little control and the house is so well insulated it gets very hot very quickly!
Load of idealistic bollox. I can't work any closer to home but doing the commute by train makes it 125% versus 84% changing that answer.
#simplisticTreeHuggers
technically you can work closer to home we all can unless we actually work at home
Granted we may need to change jobs [ I would have to], get paid less etc but any commute is generally theoretically reducible
Wow. 287% with a twice yearly flight to Australia. 120% without.
153%
Good job I didn't fill this in a few years ago, use to fly long haul at least monthly plus twice weekly European and 30k driving pa.
65 but thats because I don't travel by planes and I ride my bike in and out of work - probably underestimating the impact of food in the questionnaire, as well as all the plastic shite that we accumulate
What if you do any off-setting?
Where is the question about Nespresso?
111%
How does the government hope to run an economy and keep everyone's numbers down?
69%
Which shows that it's utter bobbins. Only asked about non-business flying. The irony being that I'm sitting in the FLounge at Hong Kong coming to the end of a week which includes two long haul and two mid haul flights. Also, it didn't really take in to account that I normally have a zero impact commute, working from home.
Additional info;
Shoe status - Dark brown Sebago Docksides.
Paperclip update - The Asia Pacific market is so hot for paperclips right now. Back again in June. Probably Australia as well on that trip. Which won't be included in my score!
289%
It's the flying that did it!
118%
And I got a warning "you've got some work to do" nah, I think you'll find I don't have any work to do at all.
112%
Vegetarian, lots of local food, no flights, small economical car but lots of animals.
Guessing my house and amount of car travel lets me down. No double glazing or energy efficiency and living rurally so tend to drive to get anywhere.
One day I will move back into a newer house in a horrible built up town area where both problems with be solved.
215% - whoops
A somewhat surprising 82%. Living 6 miles from work and not having been abroad for years was probably a large contributor. Hell I even ride home from our last family holiday..
Going to cost me about 60-70 quid to offset it. Doesn't seem that unreasonable.
However the questionnaire is too generic in my opinion. It ought to be asking your kwhs from your leccy etc. Plus how does it work with two people in a house with two cars etc? The survey appears to be based on one person living in a house with other people but not taking into account their usage as part of the whole.
Of course it's simplistic, it's a quiz on the internet.
333%
Oops! But i didn't read the bit about not putting business flights through, I suspect my carbon footprint is largely down to a lot of travel to Hong Kong.
I'm probably not that bad without it. I even walk the two miles to work! (When it's not raining.. 😳 )
I took it again but this time omitted the car (where I would've been this time last year) and it gave me a result of 56%. Comparing that to the first result (but not altering the answers) the other sections have increased for some strange reason - Food up 10%, Home up 13% and Stuff up 2%.
So yeah, total bollocks IMO.
56% need to eat less meat
70% this year
52% last year
The difference being one European flight and I bought a mobile phone
105% and i don't give a damn. a 'celeb' will have a higher amount as they fly their jet around telling us plebs that we should donate to charity and lower our carbon footprint.
Omitting a question around how many kids makes it pointless.
144%
I don't own a car
I don't like to be cold indoors in winter
I took a return flight to western Canada last year
No pets
I have a balanced diet
Just redone it to try and see what the lowest score was, best I could do was 35% assuming I was a vegan, never turned the heating on who walked everywhere, never threw anything away, lived in an eco house, never travelled etc...
Obviously it's very simplistic but as an awareness tool it's sufficient.
Interesting that we're at 80%. We heat the house to 18deg, commute and school run by bike and haven't flown in years and still at 80%. No pets but 2 children who do, despite our best efforts waste food.
Guess if we take a holiday we'll be over 100% I rank our use of fossil fuels near the lowest of our circle of friends but we're still as high as that.
57%
105% and we didn't fly last year.
No flights, no cars, no kids.
I win.
168% (bit skewed by flying to Japan, Spain and the Azores in the last year - lot more than normal!) But on the other hand, I now know about Earth Hour, so it's yin/yang, really. 🙂
86%.
Everything but the household one was pretty low. I assume it's to do with living alone with more space than is strictly necessary.
84% and it's completely nonsense. I mean really, bigly nonsense.
189%
flights to Morocco and the Alps probably
74% including three short haul return flights last year...
80% which is actually less than I thought living on a draft ridden old house and having a toddler.
Given the cars people show on car threads on here many are producing more CO2 per km than if they flew, that doesn't show on this test though..
183%. Holy crap!How did that happen?
Carbon bars, frame, crank, wheels. How much does that make?
134%
Oops.
No public transport use, big diesel car, flight to Goa a few months back, Mrs Coolhandluke likes the house hot.
I thought my solar panel should have clawed something back though.
145%
If it weren't for my holiday to Florida I'd be at 101%.
I'm morally struggling to differentiate my personal CO2 from my work CO2. I could choose not to work in the oil & gas industry. I could choose not to commute to work to Paris each week by plane. I'm sure me being unemployed would be much more environmentally friendly for the world. But according to the WWF it's not my problem.
141% and yet ticked loads on recycling, no food waste, local sourced food etc.
It'll probably be the car commute - which I have no choice about, and that US ski trip, which I did but WWF can shove it if I'm going to give that up. Propose an eco way of travelling long distances quickly rather than moaning at people to stop.
And eco fuel tarrifs? That doesn't mean your electricity is suddenly renewably generated. It's just carbon offset bollox. In fact why aren't they asking the same about flights as in do you tick the carbon offset so the airline goes and plants a tree somewhere?
Well, we have buggered up the planet then.
Best go ride our bikes while we still can.
Propose an eco way of travelling long distances quickly
There probably isn't one. Getting the train to the Alps for skiing would be a better alternative than flying to the States though.