THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

Living_proof

Spurred on by all your figures I was amazed to find that despite a couple of flights a year my footprint is just 54%, mainly down to an eco friendly house and limited mileage in a little car. I don't know how it would be if I added the air miles for exotic foods though.

greenbee

I score really well on everything other than my house, which makes up 75% of my carbon footprint. I'm prepared to put up with that as I like the space. Although I'm not sure that assessing the environmental impact of your home based on number of bedrooms is that accurate!

jk0

Mine was 248%. !!!!!!!

VJsmum

jk0 wrote: »

Mine was 248%. !!!!!!!

I feel SOOO much better now (mine was 126%)

Lindlou

Just done my footprint - 96%. Feel it's a bit high.....:o

moneyistooshorttomention

128% jko - so also "over the odds". Surprised at that - as I dont have a car and I've given up flying.

But but but - the quiz doesnt take any account of population (or is it based on the world generally and our own country in particular having optimum population - rather than both being overpopulated??).

If they've based it on Britain's actual population (65 million?) - rather than our optimum population (opinions vary - but I don't recall anyone agreeing it as being more than 30 million) - then does one halve one's own personal total based on a Britain of 30 million population? = which would make my personal one 64% (ie if there wasn't this hypothetical "other person" someplace else in the country with the exact same lifestyle iyswim).

I know what I mean - if I can't think how to express it more clearly than that:rotfl:

EDIT; Think I've figured out how to deal with the fact its probably based on present population. I re-did the quiz and put in exact same answers - but that there are 2 people living here (rather than one). It came out at 101% then. If it hadnt been a year where I bought both a large item of furniture and new computer stuff - it would be under 100%. Go me - it's a pass.

Cappella

My carbon footprint was 55% No car, no flights, small house and little spent on clothes or cosmetics (?) Most of it was food, but there was no 'grow 70% of our own food' button which might have brought it down a bit further, though I esuppose seeds will have been shipped from all over the country.

Apologies for not being around much, MrC hasn't been well so I've not had a lot of posting time. Have just caught up with posts on this thread and notice that like many here we have been thinking that making the most of our own allotment produce will be the way forward for us. We are currently harvesting lettuce, rhubarb, and micro greens and I've made rhubarb chutney. Leaving the rest of the rhubarb as the crowns are only 3 years old and we don't eat much jam but am trawling through cookery books for seasonal salad ideas to add to our meals.
Prices are definitely rising. Dogs food was up 4p a can this week, coffee up 9p a jar and tinned tomatoes 3p a tin (am restricted to the supermarket I can bus or walk to). Doesn't sound much but it all adds up. Am glad I have well stocked cupboards but prepped or not eventually I'm really going to notice the difference. Bus fares are up as well. £4.60 return to my nearest supermarket - usually I walk there though and bus back - so I foresee fewer journeys in my future.
I'm 63 and may get a bus pass next year, if I do it will be a real help, but who knows? In the meantime the 50p tin will be reinstated to cover bus fares for the furure

GreyQueen

My carbon footprint would have gone down if there was a question about growing your own food.

I also thought the questions about housing needed some re-thinking as I fell down on loft insulation because - ta dah! I'm in a ground floor flat and I don't have a loft to insulate, there's another flat up there, and so on and so on until you get to the roof of the block (which doesn't have a loft either).

House-centric, that's what the survey is. Discriminatory towards us flatties.

Also, the survey writers are operating under the supposition that everyone owns their own home - tenants have very limited input into the installations of their home. Heck, I've rented some dives which could only have been made energy-efficient by demolition.

Fun survey, WWF, needs re-writing for the real world, tho.

Re prices, they're bizarre. If you'd told me a few months ago that some veggies would be cheaper in M & S than Tosspots/ the market, I would have given you a very old-fashioned look. But it's true - my shopping patterns get more eccentric by the week, as a result.

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Many, many years ago when I were a Lass.....we didn't have a fridge, I remember we got the first one in the late 1960s and up to that point Mum shopped every day for fresh produce (she like most other married women didn't work), we had some tinned things and some grown at home in the garden but we got used to oily cheese, floaters in the milk in the summer and separated butter when it was hot, and we weren't always poorly with tummy upsets either. Days food was usually porridge for breakfast, school dinners in the week and at weekends and in holidays something like egg and mashed potato or bacon, mash and baked beans for lunch and casserole/stew and veg for the evening meal. Sunday lunch was always a roast and I can remember being sent to the butcher for 'a piece of topside around 7'6d please) which turned up again cold on Monday with bubble and squeak from the leftover veg. Time is what is missing from our lives in 2017, time to do the daily shop but I'm pretty sure there would be ways round NOT having cold storage available like dried milk instead of fresh, tinned meats/fish instead of fresh and most veg/fruit would last a few days not refrigerated. Ideas???

I should have said that bacon, cheese etc. lived in an enamel container in the kitchen cabinet ( no fitted kitchens in those days) in the corner of the kitchen as far from the window as possible in the coolest spot away from the cooker.

Karmacat

jk0 wrote: »

Mine was 248%. !!!!!!!

VJsmum wrote: »

I feel SOOO much better now (mine was 126%)

Lindlou wrote: »

Just done my footprint - 96%. Feel it's a bit high.....:o

Ditto! Mine was 163%! Don't have a car, don't fly, vegetarian, work hard on turning things off, recycle, don't eat out, house is lagged and insulated ... something is a bit hinky there!

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