Slate and fellow green blog TreeHugger have just launched an eight-week Green Challenge carbon diet. The goal: to get readers to cut their carbon emissions 20 percent through the usual variety of actions. The kicker: an interactive "my emissions" evaluation tool that friends can use to challenge one another. Nothing like a little competition to spice things up.
(I'd love to share my results, especially since this week's theme is transportation, but it's not yet working for me. Anyone else?)
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chelsl Posted 8:59 am
23 Oct 2006
me either
login is definitely currently broken. it makes me sad.
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claxton6 Posted 9:06 am
23 Oct 2006
Just worked for me
Your annual carbon emissions are 73,164.52 lbs.
Egad! I even bike everywhere.
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claxton6 Posted 9:13 am
23 Oct 2006
although
The action quiz results (what impact what you've committed to do will have) aren't working.
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Biodiversivist Posted 9:25 am
23 Oct 2006
There is only so much an individual can do
not to mention that 99% of the people are not willing to do anything. Change has to happen in our infrastructure. Power generation and transportation technologies have to be greatly improved. This is going to take some wise governance... depressing thought.
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Help acquire and protect ecological hotspots, give to a conservation organization: www.saveourbiodiversity.com
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EcoSpeak Posted 10:55 pm
23 Oct 2006
24,817
Oops.
And I drive a Prius!
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JMG Posted 12:35 am
24 Oct 2006
Stop flying
I suspect that those with the stratospheric (ho ho!) totals are frequent flyers . . .
One of the easiest things you can do to reduce your carbon footprint is simply to stop flying. Say no. Take the train/bus.
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bookerly Posted 7:29 pm
25 Oct 2006
Some Problems
It never asked me the size of my house/home. It assumed a dishwasher (I don't have one).
It didn't allow for shopping options available in other countries.
The power options did not include the idea that people don't have their own meter (me) or include all the heating options.
So, as a non-US resident, it didn't work very well (my number was low, but is it accurate? I wonder).
Still, I approve of the idea in principal!
patrick
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