Your Carbon Footprint

Have you taken a carbon footprint assessment of your life yet, or should you even care?

Whether you agree that global warming is real, can you really argue that we shouldn't reduce pollution levels to improve our air quality? Who doesn't want cleaner air to breath? I'm amazed at the amount of attention this issue has received and yet people aren't acting as if this is a state of emergency. People say they recycle at home but continue to toss cans and bottles in regular trash at work, at the gas station, at hotels, wherever which ultimately end up in our landfills.

I just got back from my first trip to Alaska. It was beautiful, but what I couldn't help but notice were the plastic bags floating around everywhere. I saw amazing wild animals with wonderful snow covered mountains in the background and trash right next to the plants moose were trying to eat. The roadways are lined with salt chemicals from the winter, about 3 feet wide and 5 inches deep. We hiked to a waterfall only to find some guy carving his name into a tree and dropping his beer can over the cliff. What happened to respecting nature?

For too long people have had an "I can afford it" mentality. It's not about being able to afford letting your car sit idle for 45 minutes or running your house AC when it's 70 degrees outside. It's about thinking beyond yourself.

You should care. Please take a carbon footprint assessment and see where you can make some improvements in your home, your travels, your food, and what you leave behind.

The Nature Conservancy carbon footprint calculator - http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/calculator/

Thank you!!