The main reason for this blog is to share ideas about my attempts to reduce my family's carbon footprint. Hopefully some of you will be inspired to join me.
My first step was to measure our carbon footprint. This would give me a starting point and hopefully highlight the problem areas.
There are quite a few carbon footprint calculators out there on the web. I chose this one: Carbon Calculator
Our average footprint per year turned out to be similar to the UK average at 9.8 tonnes of CO2.
The most obvious area to sort out was our energy usage. I switched our dual fuel bill to a Green tariff with ScottishPower so that our electric now comes from a hydro-electric source. I also got our aging, inefficient boiler, replaced with an A-rated one (an expensive way of cutting our footprint but a money saver in the long run).
The result was our average came down to 6.83 tonnes. A 30% saving. Not bad for a first go.
That was a couple of years ago now. Time to bring it down some more.
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