My Fair Share

Hmmm.  This does not bode well…
Including the wife and kids flying to visit Gran and Poppa, and including the petrol used to get them to the airport, and including the loaf of bread and 2kilos of fruit (and 2 kilograms of beer) that I have consumed since they left, and including the new extension (which [...]

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I recently got to wondering about how much of an impact on my carbon account would there be from repeatedly slashing a whole bunch of leguminous trees that I have growing.
Conversation moved from slashing, to compost, to humanure.
Hmmmm.  I pooped in a bucket for a while before creating our own – ahem, hypothetical – black-water [...]

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Okay, I get that planting trees makes deposits into our “account”.  And that composting – as with other forms of disposal (see laws of thermodynamics) – makes withdrawals from our account.
But…
We have a whole heap of plant that we never let to grow real big – so they never grow into proper trees.  Instead, we [...]

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Day 3 of this Carbon counting thing, and already we are way over.  I haven’t included electricity, or food (haven’t bought any) or any of the things that we usually do.  Nope.
Really, all we did was drive to the airport (300km return) and put the wife and kids on a little old aeroplane for a [...]

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One of the four goals of FairShareInternational is:
10: tread lightly
Reducing my use of water, energy and minerals by at least 10%, based on the national average per capita consumption. [this is 10% per year until you can go no further]
Now, I’ve been plugging along at this for a few years, and recent results [...]

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