Reducing your carbon footprint for New Year's 2011? By how much?

Hi Matt,

<< Will you be making a lifestyle change to reduce your carbon footprint in 2011? >>

We’ve already implemented lots of changes that have reduced our carbon footprint; there is little further that can be done without being unrealistic.

<< What change or changes do you plan on making? >>

None – see above.

<< How many tons of CO2 emissions (or equivalent) will your change prevent next year? >>

In 2006 we planted 50,000 trees, a few months ago we planted 40,000 more. These will offset an average of 2,700 tons of CO2 emissions each year for approximately 80 years. It works out to be about 50 times my family’s annual CO2 emissions. The trees are part of the agricultural development arm of a charitable foundation I established in West Africa in which areas are afforested with fruit trees.

<< Please provide a reliable source for your estimate. >>

Estimates are based on calculations drawn from research conducted by myself and other climate scientists, arborists and agriculturalists.

Being my current carbon foot print is so much smaller then most environmentalist like Al Gore already I don't see where I could reduce it much more. I looked up my carbon foot print on a website some years ago and as I remember my carbon foot print was 10 tons per year. It suggested a carbon offset in the amount of $100.00. I guess I'm already green lol.

Sure, I'll just go demolish all those dirt burners and replace them with Uranium splitters.

Assuming I could of course, it'd do a whole heap more good than any lifestyle changes that only make people feel good about themselves while doing almost nothing to help.

First of all i don't give about All gore. second we should try to lower our carbon foot print as much as we can, but I have no estimate because it is different for every one. I believe that global warming is real and some ideas you could use are really simple like changing to energy efficient light bulbs but I think you should do what ever you feel is right.

Currently there is no more changes that I can feasibly make to reduce my carbon foot print. What I am wondering is how California is going to reduce it's carbon foot print when roughly half of it is from China.

The whole carbon footprint idea is just a scam to make money for carbon credit traders like Al Gore.

Dang, I picked the wrong year to go Saturday night points racing at the local dragstrip!

My footprint is as small as it is going to get. I have low wattage LED lighting, and don't drive to work, and grow food.

I just hope that your question isn't from school. I wouldn't have thought so except for your last sentence. Sometimes you just need to stand up to your teacher and tell them to pound sand.

I'm not changing a bloody thing, because "global warming" is a hoax perpetrated by the whiner Al Gore as a result of his failed run for the WH, and to line his own pockets.