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What is the number one thing the average consumer can do to offset their carbon footprint during the course of one year ?

What is the best thing that the average consumer can do to offset their carbon footprint during the course of a single year ?

Weather it be buying energy efficient light bulbs, or riding a bike to work.

Or what ?

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September 14, 2009 12:19 AM
The best way to reduce carbon monoxide emissions is to adjust your lifestyle to save energy. Reduce, reuse, recycle.

1. Ride a bike, carpool or take public transpotation to school and work.
I stopped driving to the gym and started exercising at home. I talked my employer into letting me do more work from home thus avoiding having to ride to work everyday.

2. Turn off lights and TVs when you're not using them, switch to compact flourescent light bulbs. I noticed a big decrease in my electric bill after I started using compact flourescent light bulbs. Turn down the thermostat in winter, bundle up in layers of clothing. Run the air conditioner in summer only when absolutely necessary, just enough to cool you off. I open my windows at night.

3. Don't throw it all away. Be creative and think of something useful you can make out of used clothng and/or housewares, if not, drop off at the Goodwill.
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September 13, 2009 10:36 PM
Here it is:

Eat little to no meat or cheese. The processing of both of these can create lots of carbon emissions!
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September 14, 2009 07:33 PM
I've taken the carbon footprint analysis a couple of times. My response, based on the results, is to reduce travel, especially by plane.
Keep in mind that I live in a completely off-grid home with generator to back us up maybe 6 times a month, grow much of my own food, drive to work only 2-3 times a week, live in a 975 sq ft home, completely shut down the power to the house at night using the master circuit, and use no air conditioning. With all of this working for me, you'd think I'd be on the low end of the carbon usage profile, but when I plug in that I fly 3-4 times a year, my profile becomes the same as the average lifestyle American.
I took a carbon footprint test to answer this question (at http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx ). Using the criteria there without a flight, my offset was 13.93 tonnes. If I add one flight round trip from Sacramento to LAX, it goes up to 14.15!
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September 14, 2009 09:02 PM
Would charter or co-op flights bring your footprint down ?

Or how about using the train and/or mass transit (buses) ?

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