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How Big Is Your Blog's Carbon Footprint?
Posted by gtally • 7/12/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: carbon footprint, environmental impact, internet
Believe it or not, all your Internet usage has a significant impact on the real world. (Including your time on this forum). 
Check out this article:
www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/07/10/green.internet.CO2/index.html
What do you think? How do we lessen our online carbon impact and green up the very essence of what a lot of us BC'ers hold dear: our daily Internet time?
User Comments
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I posted an entry just yesterday on this very CNN article.
Using the Wissner-Gross system the posting I made created 18,000 mg of CO2.
That including the time it took to read the article.
My posting generated 78 hits, each spending no less than 60 seconds reading my post.
So including my 18,000mg of Co2 that equals 111600 mg of CO2 generated by my one little post.
The CNN article made me want to do nothing but spend the rest of the day on the internet increasing my carbon footprint.
I've no interest in decreasing my supposed carbon footprint.
In my estimation my carbon footprint isn't nearly big enough.-
That's what Encyte is for, my friend.
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Damn technology, damn it all to hell. If we want to save this world, we have to go back, way back. Someone get me my horse and carriage! -
What? what else am I doing to kill the environment ughhhhhhhhhh-
I'm gonna hop on my horse and carriage and start slaughtering some cattle. You know those cow farts, they're tearing a hole in the atmosphere.
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Damn cows, slaughter them all, and throw a nice steak on the BBQ for me while you are at it, oh wait that's on the not to use list too, hell start a bonfire , a big one and cook the whole dam thing ! humm all the sudden I'm hungry brb
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Don't you know fires release CO2 into the atmosphere. We have to eat the meat raw, like precaveman status.
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Cook a cow, plant a tree... that should be a good carbon offset shouldn't it?
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what? seriously you never mentioned anything about raw meat! It will give you worms don't cha know. Can't we just build a little fire, I mean I need it medium rare at least! Never mind I am just gonna graze on some grass or maybe not, after all it gives cows gas so it probably will reek havoc on my digestive system causing me to fart uncontrollably and tear an even bigger hole in the atmosphere.
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yeah well you are gonna have a plant a Forrest by the time I am done farting
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Bump! Thought I'd burn a little more carbon for the sake of conversation.
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I cook the environment...typically at 375 deg-
Pan seared? Slow roasted? Baked or broiled?
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sometimes I go slow and painful but other times I just broil and get it over with
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Spit roasted or do you cut the environment into chunks and make kebabs?
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spit roasted baby
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Good. I was getting tired of sabotaging all those green movements. Ill just use more internet. -
This big.........(I'm holding my hands apart to indicate the size of my blog's carbon foot print)..................Or on second thoughts maybe just this big........(I have narrowed the gap between my hands to the size of a 3 and a half year old Sparrow with dietary concerns and a deformed wing)....................................What's a carbon footprint anyway?-
Silly aardvark, it's how gassy you are!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint
Aardvark gas is melting the polar ice caps! -
Can't be my fault I only wear orange Suede thigh high boots, so unless suede footprints are equally to blame I can, Bono like, pronounce myself carbon neutral and look down upon you lesser carbon footed mortals from the Olympian heights of my god given suede boots and pity you.
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It's not your glorious, most righteous footwear, it's your corrosive emissions that are the problem.
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Considering that I don't drive, eat very little meat, ride my bike and walk most places, and don't report to an office everyday (Architectural no less. Architectural offices tend to generate tons of paper waste and is a construction field which has an enormous carbon footprint) I am saving the environment just by being unemployed.-
That was quite gassy. Way to go. You just melted a little more glacier.
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I think you just called me a gas bag.
I have always been nice to you.
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Now you're just contributing to increased salinity levels in Lake Michigan! You're worse than the St. Lawrence Seaway!
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*makes obscene gesture at gtally*
This thread reminds me of the South Park episode where everyone starts driving hybrids and a toxic cloud of smug starts to envelope the country.
"That's not smog! It's SMUG!" -
Beware of Man Bear Pig!
You guys, I'm really cereal!
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Siuil -- you've yet to weigh in!
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