Carbon footprints: keeping up with the Joneses.

[theclimateblog]

Yesterday was a Clean Air Action Day here in Madison, which means that conditions were favorable for the formation of ground-level ozone in high enough volumes to cause a health risk for children, the elderly, adults active outside, and people with asthma or other respiratory ailments. The city of Madison asks residents to minimize their use of

Comments

[brdgt]

I love the idea of using it as an educational tool for kids! They should teach that along with other life skills in school, like balancing your checkbook and budgeting.

[theclimateblog]

I agree - I can totally see little kids running through the house and pointing out all the power adapters that can be unplugged. Hitting kids up early on various conservation issues has been incredibly successful in recent years - bats are one of the poster child success stories where an situation gets turned around because kids run home and influence their parents.

In September we'll have been car-free for a year, which means we'll have lowered our footprint by 3 tons for the year!

[brdgt]

It's what public health did in the early Twentieth century - they started school lunch, PE, Home Ec, and school nurse programs to "indoctrinate" immigrant children on American standards of cleanliness and culture. The kids grew up Americanized and most brought those lessons back home and bugged mom to cook certain things or clean or a certain way. Always go for the kids!

[jackshoegazer]

Hey, baby, what's your carbon footprint?

[tri_blog]

Check this Scientific American article out:

A world without people.

[theclimateblog]

That is a fascinating article! I love those sorts of thought experiments.

[tri_blog]

It's good to know that in a few 100,000 years, without people, we won't have to worry about global warming! HAha