One of the starting points of CAPS was the Carbon Footprinting project – showing that the point of measuring our carbon footprint is quite impactful, as it can:
Reduce the environmental impact of the residents of the Sid Valley through a bottom-up, granular approach to understanding and reducing individual carbon footprints.
Support Sid Valley residents to estimate their individual household carbon footprint and provide them with relevant information; on this basis encourage them to make specific changes to reduce their footprint.
Demonstrate that these small changes collectively add up to a material, measurable, overall change for the Sid Valley.
And it’s pretty straightforward to calculate our footprint:
There are lots of Carbon Footprint Calculators out there – and after a fair amount of research looking through many of them, the CAPS team have decided to go for the one put together by Carbon Savvy.
Later on this month there’ll be the perfect opportunity to learn more and to ask questions a the SVA’s talk by Chris Lockyear of the Climate Awareness Partnership Sidmouth – ‘Do we understand our carbon footprint? ‘
Finally, it’s interesting to see how the ‘carbon footprint’ idea came about – and how to reclaim it:
The ‘carbon footprint’ was co-opted by fossil fuel companies to shift climate blame – here’s how it can serve us again…
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