{"id":302,"date":"2015-12-05T07:46:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T07:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/?page_id=302"},"modified":"2015-12-05T08:06:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T08:06:47","slug":"calculate-your-carbon-footprint-and-offset","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/calculate-your-carbon-footprint-and-offset\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculate Your Carbon Footprint and Offset"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Carbon Calculator Station<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>CLICK HERE:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eatlowcarbon.org\/food-scores\/#\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.eatlowcarbon.org\/<wbr \/>food-scores\/#<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>All the food on this website it calculated in grams. There are a 1000 grams in a kilogram.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Create a balanced meal that you would want to eat with the highest and lowest carbon footprint.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Multiply the highest and lowest carbon measurements in the meals you found by the number of participants (ex: 100 participants). How many trees would you have to plant to make this meal carbon neutral for the whole conference?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Tree offset calculation is based on a tree planted in the humid tropics absorbing on average 50 pounds (22 kg) of carbon dioxide annually over 40 years<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0 &#8211; each tree will absorb 1 ton of CO2 over its lifetime;\u00a0<b>but<\/b>\u00a0as trees grow, they compete for resources and some may die or be destroyed &#8211; not all will achieve their full carbon sequestration potential. This calculator assumes that 5 trees should be planted to ensure that at least one lives to 40 years or that their combined sequestration equals 1 ton.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Cut the Red Tape Activity:<\/h3>\n<p>Choose a pledge and make a plan to carry it out.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cuttheredtapeproject.org\/#!schools-take-action-\/c1tcn\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.<wbr \/>cuttheredtapeproject.org\/#!<wbr \/>schools-take-action-\/c1tcn<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon Calculator Station CLICK HERE: http:\/\/www.eatlowcarbon.org\/food-scores\/# All the food on this website it calculated in grams. There are a 1000 grams in a kilogram. &nbsp; Create a balanced meal that you would want to eat with the highest and lowest carbon footprint. &nbsp; Multiply the highest and lowest carbon measurements in the meals you found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-302","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}