Our Carbon Footprint on 10:10

To celebrate 10:10:10 I have calculated my new carbon footprint to compare it to last year calculation.

We have reduced our carbon footprint by 24% in only 10 months and will go even further after we install the Solar panels.

Summary

Total

	CO2 (kg)	%
Home	964	7.2%           Our bill have more than halves. See how here
Transport	8623	64.5%          2.3 t less than last year in total. No flight this year.
Food	1400	11.1%          We grow our fruits and veg.
Industry Share	2280	17.2%
Grand Total	13367 kg
	13.3 tonnes for our family, 4.4 tonnes each.

Details

Home

	CO2 (kg)
Electricity	797	Why more than half less than 2009? Energy monitor and a new A rated fridge/Freezer
Gas	1533	Why 63% less than last year? Cavity wall, radiator panels, hot water jacket...
Wood	81	We are using mostly wood which would have otherwise been thrown away.
Home Total	2411
Personal Share	964

Transport

	CO2 (kg)
Car One	1720	I am sharing my car with WhipCac.com with neighbours.
Car Two	6880	Robin drives to work but his journees are logged on liftshare.com
Ferry	13	By not fliging this year we saved 2.8 tonne CO2
Nat. Rail
Flights	0	0
Transport Total	8623

Food

	CO2 (kg)
Diet	700	Eating less meat would reduce even more our carbon footprint
Sourcing	700	We grow most of our vegetable
Food Total	1400

Industry

	CO2 (kg)	%
National Share	1000	7.5
Spending Habits	1280	9.6
Industry Total	2280

To put this in context, national average emissions are 8 tonnes per person per year. Our individual carbon footprint is 4.46 tonnes each and was 5.8 tonnes last year. The UK has pledged 80% reductions by 2050 to around 2 tonnes per capita, which is the sustainable CO2 quota per global capita.

We still have some work to do as a family to achieve it. We are going to install double glazing, draught proof the house and install Solar panels and we will get paid for the electricity we will produce. Those 3 things should be equivalent to 1.4 tonnes CO2 saved for our home. The only way we can achieve the 2 tonnes per capita is with big government input to improve public transport as the cost of travel is 64.5% of our carbon footprint.