An Inspirational Carbon Footprint Blog - Our Green Year

If you’re looking for dedication to reducing your personal carbon footprint, or at least inspiration, you can’t go past the efforts of Craig and Layla Baird at Our Green Year. So far the blog is up to Day 224 as the choices and ways in which they are going about the task of reducing their carbon footprint is chronicled each day.

Since April 2008 Craig has made daily postings which now serve as a wonderful (dare I say, invaluable) database of ideas that is available for anyone searching for ideas to use to reduce their own carbon footprint.

The blog starts off strongly with Ten Ways To Save The World and continues on as the Bairds scrap the use of plastic bags (Day 3), retire the petrol lawn mower for a push mower (Day 23), swapped the weed whacker for a sickle (Day 85) and detail for 2 days a boycott of companies with poor environmental records – Food Chains (Day 161) and Retailers (Day 162).

Rather than have me pick the eyes out of the site I suggest you make your way over to Our Green Year, but be warned, you will lose hours at this site because Craig writes with purpose, passion and engaging ease. The ideas to reduce your carbon footprint are well presented, widely varied and in most cases, easily implemented.

We could all use this as an instructional guide for our own carbon emissions.

Listed in the sidebar of the blog is the carbon footprint reduction so far. Craig lists the carbon emission tonnage when the blog started and the carbon emissions now. The savings have been nothing short of staggering.