Carbon footprint

With every tsunami, mudslide or hurricane we are confronted with our daily changing environment. To make people aware of their own role in these changes we introduced the carbon footprint years ago. Your personal footprint shows the contribution of your daily actions, whether that is travel, or eating meat, on the production of CO2.

I guess we all realize that keeping the internet up and running costs electricity, and that producing electricity also produces CO2, but do we have a clue how much? What for instance is the impact of this post to this blogs footprint? Time for help, time for tools.

CO2Stats lets you track the carbon dioxide emissions of your website, blog or individual posting. This services calculates the carbon footprint of your web activities, based on the amount of traffic.

There is a pro version with detailed overviews and a fairly simple widget as shown here.

I decided to just use a screenshot; otherwise I could really see how many of you read this blog and help me to enlarge my footprint.