How much do you know about your carbon footprint?
Your carbon footprint is the total volume of greenhouse gases resulting from your daily activities. But this more than the just the amount of petrol you use in your car or the electricity used in your home.
There are lots of ways to reduce your carbon footprint in your daily life – shop local, reuse rather that recycle, reduce your plastic use, switch off the lights you aren’t using – but what about our digital presence?
Simple digital acts like sending emails, searching google and me writing this blog, each create their own carbon emissions. In his book “How Bad are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of almost everything”, Mike Berners-Lee estimates a typical year of incoming emails has the same carbon footprint of driving a car for 200 miles.
So we can send less emails, but when reducing isn’t an option, there are lots of programmes out there which help you offset your carbon footprint.
Our favourite Eco-Consultant Harriet from Tillyboo’s recommends the following;
- Link your website to TreeNation to plant a tree with every sale
- Download TreeApp – each day you can answer a few marketing questions and they will plant a tree
- Use a search engine such as Ecosia who will plant trees with the advertising revenue from your searches.