Tonight, we finally watched An Inconvenient Truth. I highly recommend the movie. It has some great ideas at the end for how you can make manageable changes in your own life to help prevent the effects of global warming.
After the movie, we went poking around online. So what's your ecological footprint? My total footprint is 14 acres, compared to an average of 24 acres per person in the US. Sounds good, huh? Well...
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 3.2 PLANETS.
Doh.
So as a first step, we just made our first annual (tax-deductible) donation to offset our carbon footprint. And we're going to go back and make special donations anytime we take a trip that's over our 6,000 miles/year budget (as calculated for our annual donation).
