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14.25 tonnes to be exact! That is one heavy footprint.

I have finally worked out my carbon footprint at a transition town workshop. I would like to say it was a good evening, which it was, but I left with my pride broken and a big task ahead.

We used a simplified system that covered the carbon emissions under the sections of house, car, public transport, flights, food, goods and services and governmental services.

These are my figures:
House: 5100kg
Car: 3450kg
Flights: 1300kg
Food: 1300kg
Goods and services: 1500kg
Governmental services: 1000kg

Total: 14250kg

As I said in a previous post I thought I'd come out pretty low. I walk to work, I don't buy many clothes, my last holiday was camping, and we don't have central heating so I wasn't expecting it to be so high.

Let me put those 14250kg in to perspective for you.

The average carbon footprint for some one in Britain is around 12500kg.

If everyone in the world had an equal footprint that the world could cope with our individual footprint would need to be 1500kg.

My footprint suddenly seems very large indeed.

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