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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Elizaray[/i] [br]I have gone to many carbon footprint calculator websites and most of them come pretty close to each other. My family is pretty small, just the three of us. We try and live as green as possible including my new switch to being a vegetarian. What most of the carbon footprint calculators indicate is that we would need to plant 5 trees each year to have a 0 carbon balance. So...what I was thinking is that since my husband is 27, we should shoot to plant 150 trees in the next year or two (30 years x 5 trees =150 trees). Then if we planted a couple extra... say 10 trees each year, we could help off set another family's carbon footprint. There are lots of areas that have been deforested due to logging and forest fires. So if we all planted native trees in deforested areas it would be a great way to do a public service and help the planet. What do you think? Elizaray [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.