Dogs and your carbon footprint

4 poo bags later I returned from my dog walk….  My dog Max is a golden retriever, he’s a big dog who got hold of some sausages yesterday – today I am seeing the consequences.  I am currently collecting my little gifts in scented nappy bags, mainly because I still have some left over from my babies but also because his poo is very smelly!   We live close to bush land and I do try to encourage him to poo in the wild but he has a thing for pavements.

I will add eco friendly poo bags to my shopping list IF I can find them. Can anyone help?

Working out my current footprint – again!

OK so this is the first step of my experiment. Let’s make sure I really know how bad things are before we start trying to change things.

I am going to use a number of different carbon footprint measuring devices just because I can! I will  keep the figures asked for the same and see what each calculator tells me.  I have picked five so that I can get an average as they all seem to ask slightly different questions. This should be interesting…..

Please join me in working out the size of yours – we can all console each other over home made virtual muffins and hot chocolate.

1: http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx

2: http://www.bp.com/extendedsectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9015627&contentId=7029058

3: http://green.yahoo.com/calculator/

4: http://www.google.co.uk/carbonfootprint/cal.html

5: http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/calculator/

See me the other side of the measurements.