One tonne life

The one tonne life-project, sponsored by three (sort of) Swedish companies, is quite interesting. The challenge is for a family to live a year on one tonne of carbon dioxide per person (the global average today is about seven tonnes, according to the project site). This should be achieved by moving in to a newly built climate-smart house and by driving an electrical car.

Now, I’m not the least bit interested in moving to a house in Hässelby (west of Stockholm), and I am a bit sceptical to the whole setup (perhaps because some of the sponsors aren’t all that “green”, quite the opposite actually), but I would really like to know how much carbon dioxide our family produces in a year and, more importantly, get some targeted advice on the easiest way for us to reduse it.

We very selldome drive our car (which runs on CNG), but we do eat quite a lot of meat. We don’t live in a climate-smart house, but an apartment in an old building. We do fly off to vacations every now and then and I take far too long showers. But we have redused our shopping and we try to buy second hand or green products most of the time. And we have stepped up a notch lately when it comes to recycling. :-)

I know that the numbers and information is probably out there, but sometimes a little advice as to what to focus on would be really nice.

Anyways, check out the project here!