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In ten years I'll have a smaller footprint
In 10 years, I would like to have an ecological footprint of less than 1, and along the way, I want to encourage other people to do the same. This is a harder goal than I first thought; I already try to use public transportation, not buy much packaged food, dress warm in the winter and cool in the summer so I don't need to waste as much electricity on heating/air conditioning. I've switched to a 45watt laptop from my 500watt gaming desktop. And I bought my first 3 watt LED lightbulb last month. You get 100,000 hours out of these suckers!
Anyone reading this may want to try this footprint calculator out for fun:
http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/
According to this, if everyone on earth were to live like me, we would need 1.83 planet earths to sustain everyone. Oink Oink! It looks like a few places I can cut down is by not eating meet, and not buying so many tools. Also, if I meet needs such as heating and lighting by using renewable energy I can reduce my footprint even further.
In fact, there is even some ways to profit from this mindset now. In many places governments are offing a premium on electricity generated by 'green means'. Here in Ontario you can make $0.80 kwh by feeding solar energy into the grid. Here's the math: if you have a 10kw solar array, you can make $8 an hour for 5 hours a day x 365 days a year. That works out to $14,600 a year! When governments subsidize at this rate, solar energy quickly pays for itself, and then some.
If you live in Ontario, I highly recommend checking out the Feed In Tariff:
http://fit.powerauthority.on.ca/
So, in ten years, I hope to be done school (first of all). I'd also like to have my own family, and own a house with a big yard. I'd like to grow more food and generate more electricity than I can use so I can sell some back to the grid and make a few bucks on the side.
Anyone reading this may want to try this footprint calculator out for fun:
http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/
According to this, if everyone on earth were to live like me, we would need 1.83 planet earths to sustain everyone. Oink Oink! It looks like a few places I can cut down is by not eating meet, and not buying so many tools. Also, if I meet needs such as heating and lighting by using renewable energy I can reduce my footprint even further.
In fact, there is even some ways to profit from this mindset now. In many places governments are offing a premium on electricity generated by 'green means'. Here in Ontario you can make $0.80 kwh by feeding solar energy into the grid. Here's the math: if you have a 10kw solar array, you can make $8 an hour for 5 hours a day x 365 days a year. That works out to $14,600 a year! When governments subsidize at this rate, solar energy quickly pays for itself, and then some.
If you live in Ontario, I highly recommend checking out the Feed In Tariff:
http://fit.powerauthority.on.ca/
So, in ten years, I hope to be done school (first of all). I'd also like to have my own family, and own a house with a big yard. I'd like to grow more food and generate more electricity than I can use so I can sell some back to the grid and make a few bucks on the side.
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Comment by Starling on March 24, 2010 at 4:01am
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We definitely have to crack that footprint problem! From a fellow struggler...
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