we just worked out our families carbon footprint, its 4700kg CO2-e for our whole family, (according to the landcare calculator) the average per person in NZ is 7300kg CO2-e ( according to wikipedia), it seems that ours is very low, possibly due to us only having one car and Ben using his bike to get to work. We recycle, we only use electricity for heating and have a very efficient heat pump, some of it may also be that we do not travel very far at the moment either.
So now that we have worked that out our next goal is to reduce our carbon footprint by 10% for the coming year.... I am thinking about how we can do that, using our car less will help, as would getting is serviced and possibly a tune up to make it more efficient in its petrol consumption. Ben will need to keep biking to work, and the kids and I might need to start walking to more places that we visit.
Its cool though to see what we use and how we can make a change.
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Showing posts with label environmental change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environmental change. Show all posts
Environmental Film Festival Gala
Posted in blogging daily, environmental change on 11:50 AM by Azlemed
It was amazing, they showed bits of some of the films that are going to be shown, it was amazing and made me think about what I could do to help climate change. Robyn Malcolm was the MC and she was hilarious, made jokes about being Gerry Brownlee in Disguise trying to win back votes and made poignant comments about some of the films.
Here is something simple that any one can do too.... sign up to 10:10global and reduce your own carbon emissions by 10% this year.
It was awesome to have a night out without our children and it was nice to see how people are taking things into their own hands to improve our environment.
The Black Seeds played and they are very cool, a mix of all sorts of music and based in Wellington, I would definitely recommend getting hold of some of their music to listen too.
There were a couple of films that I would really like to see but at $12 -14 a session I might not get to many, one was about The Kakapo, another was about the tuatara at Invercargill museum, one that looked really good was called "A simple question" about how a simple question about endangered species led to an environmental movement that had included over 20000 students and 700 teachers in America.
It was very cool and was really nice to go on a date with my gorgeous husband.
D
Here is something simple that any one can do too.... sign up to 10:10global and reduce your own carbon emissions by 10% this year.
It was awesome to have a night out without our children and it was nice to see how people are taking things into their own hands to improve our environment.
The Black Seeds played and they are very cool, a mix of all sorts of music and based in Wellington, I would definitely recommend getting hold of some of their music to listen too.
There were a couple of films that I would really like to see but at $12 -14 a session I might not get to many, one was about The Kakapo, another was about the tuatara at Invercargill museum, one that looked really good was called "A simple question" about how a simple question about endangered species led to an environmental movement that had included over 20000 students and 700 teachers in America.
It was very cool and was really nice to go on a date with my gorgeous husband.
D
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