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In my house we’ve been talking a lot lately about consumption—more specifically, about the relationship between consumption and our carbon footprint. In the green-building world, when we talk about a footprint, it’s usually related to building design. But Ray Cole at the University of British Columbia and Don Fugler at Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC）除其他人之外，指出，个人或家庭的碳足迹不仅包括家庭的运作，还包括几种额外的元素：个人运输，耗材（食品，服装，家庭维护用品，药店物品等。），假期和耐用的商品。
事实上，CMHC的研究表明，家庭的净零能量最简单的途径可能会转向城市并放弃使用私人汽车进行日常运输。该选项可能不是每个人，但我们都可以看看我们建筑物的墙壁内，以找到减少脚印的其他方式。
我们通常在其占据区域方面可视化占地面积。图片可爱的婴儿脚的图像图像，在一张纸上涂上纸上或在陶瓷瓷砖上长化;它有两个维度。但是，沙子的足迹，例如，具有三个维度：它也具有深度。足迹的深度由其上方的重量量决定。因此，两个具有相同尺寸的人，但不同的权重，将产生不同深度的占地面积。
在我们的家庭讨论中，我们得出的结论是，一个人的足迹的深度是多重的函数，而且通过扩展，一个人超越所有方式的东西，而不仅仅是食物。
I confess, more for economic reasons than as a matter of virtue, that I’ve greatly curtailed my clothing purchases over the past year. I’m also working on cutting back my consumption of other goods; food, too, especially white foods (white flour, white sugar, white rice, white pasta).
My guilty pleasure is catalogs, which feed my aesthete’s lust for beautiful things. I’m working on getting off catalog mailing lists so that I’m not tempted as often. (You can, too, atcatalogchoice.org.) And I’m promptly recycling the catalogs that do come in.
Where am I going with this? I know this blog is supposed to be about design, but those of us who are designers design more than homes; we design processes and lifestyles, starting with our own. Every aspect of life is a design project in progress. I’m working to lighten my footprint, by design.
Check outfootprintnetwork.org.for resources to help lighten yours.
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urban life
We moved from rural Sonoma County to the urban East Bay area, which enabled us to sell one of our cars, and keep the other one parked most of the time.
We were lucky enough to be able to rent a house with a yard, so we're still able to garden. Mostly it's fun, probably not offsetting our foodprint much. But we grow all our salad and cooking herbs, which are high footprint items from the grocery store (due to cleaning, packaging, and refrigerated transport), and we're also raising some meat rabbits.
What's your number?
我一直在看扫罗格里菲斯在几次和几个地方（网络的奇迹）中，他的介绍了解气候变化和他的足迹。我认为他真的很精细地奠定了这一切，他通过简单地询问 - 选择气候模型和全球温度的预计上升，这种模型对你感觉有权，然后回到我们的位置需要接受我们的公平份额来实现这一目标。
摘要，摘要视频和呈现的链接在博客文章中我刚刚在homesthatfit.com/blog上的主题上做了
我最喜欢的是，他得出结论，他所需要的行动实际上都与他更喜欢生活的方式一致。
* Eat less and more healthy
*锻炼更多
* Spend more time with my family
* Live closer together
* Spend less time commuting
* Less business travel
* Having higher quality, better designed products
* Breathe cleaner air
* Drink cleaner water
He has also set up wattzon.com - an attempt to use crowdsourcing to develop carbon footprint benchmarks and user data.
Like Marc Rosenbaum likes to say: Think clearly, then act
Broken link FYI
Nice article, Ann--I like your analogies. Just an FYI that the hidden URL for the catalogchoice.org link has a typo (an extra "c") so actually links you to catalogchoice.corg.
无论如何，我没有听说过目录选择，我即将注册并与他人分享。伟大的免费服务！谢谢你的提示。
谢谢，凯蒂
We've fixed the broken link — thanks for pointing out the problem.
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