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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.
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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.
89% which has surprised me tbh I thought it would be higher.
Seriously high - 🙁 flights (and not even the business ones)
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Getting the train to the Alps for skiing would be a better alternative than flying to the States though.
Yeah, but snow in US is more reliable and Utah has awesome powder. Plus better service. 😀