Comments LizC has made

  • Quick reference for those not wanting to calculate

    Having just gone through the process of trying to figure out exactly what we need to do to reduce our carbon footprint, let me recommend a couple of easily available sources that will give you a list of things to do.  Yes! magazine, Spring 2008 issue, has a short article about a fairly typical family reducing their footprint in 10 years.  This is the easy stages approach. The link is http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=2287.    Second, I found The Carbon Buster's Home Energy Handbook by Godo Stoyke to be concise and informative.  There's a 2 page list of things to do, actually 2 lists: one for optimizing money saved, and the other for optimizing carbon reduction.  So if you don't want to calculate, just flip to the lists and start doing the items.  If you want to know why and how much without calculating it all yourself, the rest of the book has that info.  I checked it out of the King County Library, and have now added it to my Amazon wish list to be purchased Real Soon Now.On Umbra on carbon calculators posted 1 year, 5 months ago 11 Responses

  • go local, but ask first

    Thanks loads, brett, for the informative and encouraging comment about buying honey. This is exactly what I was inclined to do, but didn't know if there was something else I should be considering. And I didn't know before this what difference raw honey meant.

     I'm not sure I could actually use 10 gallons of honey a year, but the idea of beekeeping is kind of tempting.  

    Liz in Bellevue...
    On Umbra on organic honey posted 1 year, 9 months ago 19 Responses