Deb Goes Green

Deb's 2016 Carbon Outputs

12/29/2016

My electric useage is not counted towards CO2 output as Seattle City Light is the nation's only 100% Net-Zero electrical utility. In addition to using sustainable hydro-electric, I own 52 solar units in Seattle's Community Solar Program, which, so far, has re-paid me 15% of my initial investment. over four years. I expect to break even in about 2022.

I also don't include my food carbon footprint, though I should, because I have no idea how to document in detail everything I eat. I regret I am not a vegetarian- but I can't do wheat or dairy so this makes things complicated. I do try to eat only local, organic meat, mostly chicken. I do try to shop at Farmers' Markets, even though this gets complicated by travel. I do try to grow veggies at home in the summer.

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Tesla Road Trip #3: The Wild, Wild West

6/9/2016

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"ROAD TRIP!!!!!!!!!"

I am living my dream.

All my adult driving life, ever since my first car, a 1986 Subaru GL Wagon, I have dreamed of being able to travel pollution-free. It always bothered me, that to see the greater wide world, that I had to spew out exhaust fumes to do so. It especially irked me when it came to travelling to wild, natural places ,away from the city. I didn't like it at all that to get away from urban noise and pollution, that I had to pollute to do so. Ugh.

While driving an electric vehicle is not the 100% perfect enviromental way to travel (that would be walking, and even then, one could argue that we emit...um, well, you know) it is certainly less carbon intensive than flying or driving a big Hummer.

Anyway, this road trip will be about 4000 miles and will take me through Washington, Oregon, Idaho, western Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Californina. I will be alternating staying in hotels and car-camping (Yes! You CAN sleep in the back of a Tesla Model S!) I will be visiting urban cities and mountain nature. I will be visiting numerous freinds and family members along the way.

Here's to the road!

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End-Of-Year Trash Count: 9 Jars!

12/31/2015

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One year and only nine jars of trash!

This is what I couldn't recycle, re-purpose, repair, compost or refuse in the first place.

I only wish I had been able to make my goal of only six jars. But a late September car accident and simultaneously taking care of a friend who was recovering at my house from abdominal surgery meant a return to pre-packaged foods and those foods come with lots of single-use plastic.

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The 26,000 Mile Negative Carbon Road Trip: Catching Up With Brian Kent and His Cross-Country Travel in a Nissan LEAF

12/21/2015

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Earlier this year, an Indi-Gogo campaign caught my attention via my Deb Goes Green Twitter feed: a fellow from Albion, New York was planning a 26,000 mile cross-country trip in his 2013 base model Nissan LEAF to prove that "range anxiety" is a myth and that electric cars CAN cut it in doing the Great American Road Trip.

Not only that, he was planning on planting a tree in every one of the Lower 48 States in order to off-set whatever embedded carbon count had gone in to the making of the car in the first place...

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