John Cossham |
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I am also wondering if I have a ‘negative’ carbon footprint, since my household and transport measured (estimated from 3 C. calculators) footprint is less than a tonne per year, yet I do a vast amount of recycling of stuff which would have gone to landfill, ie about 100kg/week compostables brought back to my heaps by bike trailer, also glass, cans, paper, plastic, and wood from skips to put on my woodstoves, replacing fossil-fuel use (and reducing landfill traffic and emissions), PLUS the education and awareness raising I do to promote sustainability. How much of this can I use to ‘offset’ my small amount of direct fossil-fuel use?
However before I measure this, I need to measure my indirect fossil-fuel use, such as that embodied in the groceries I actually buy (bread, margerine, soya and other milk, pasta, rice, etc etc) and that in the small amount of ‘goods’ I am responsible for, such as this laptop, a new bike I’m having built, etc. Complicated, eh?
John Cossham, York
sub-zero!
andy_ross
That’s where we gotta go. Not easy to do and not easy to quantify. But let’s have a go!