HeraldNet: What's your baby's carbon footprint?



RECENT POSTS:
• Green home kits July 18 • Lawn, schmlawn... July 16 • Ridiculous eco-invention alert! July 14 • Eco-confessional July 11 • Keeping Camping Clean July 10

Archives:



LINKS:
Eat Local • Eat Wild • Get Fresh • Pacific Northwest Cheese Project • Puget Sound Fresh • Tilth Producers • Urban Hennery (Everett) Eco Friendly • EcoConsumer • Green Everett • Green Gardening Tips • Grist Recycling • 2good2toss • Freecycle • PC Recycle • Recycle with Karen (Everett) • Snohomish County Solid Waste

RELATED ARTICLES:
• EPA: Global warming to hit poor the hardest July 18 • Bush rescinds offshore oil ban; ball in Congress' court July 15 • Washington state may get Hawaii's next export: Tons of trash July 15 • EPA releases report on warming that White House had buried July 15 • Save A Buck / Grocery tote instead of gift bag July 15 • Save a Buck: Hang clothes outside to dry July 13 • Protection sought for rare U.S. wolverine July 13 • Recycling old media materials July 13 • Bush rejects advice on global warming July 12 • Bush taking a go-slow approach on global warming July 11


ADVERTISEMENT <script language=JavaScript src="http://ads.heraldnet.com/servlet/ajrotator/169233/0/vj?z=heraldnet&ct=122081&dim=169231&abr=$scriptiniframe"></script><noscript><a href="http://ads.heraldnet.com/servlet/ajrotator/169233/0/cc?z=heraldnet"><img src="http://ads.heraldnet.com/servlet/ajrotator/169233/0/vc?z=heraldnet&ct=122081&dim=169231&abr=$imginiframe" width="160" height="600" border="0"></a></noscript>

Eco Geek

May 12, 2008

What's your baby's carbon footprint?

Posted at 2:23 pm by Sarah Jackson

Here’s a fascinating look at the ultimate microcosm of American consumption, the great American infant, courtesy of Mother Jones. I highly recommend you visit the site for the entire list, but here are a few highlights.

*72 percent of American adults have children;

*A typical baby goes through 3,800 disposable diapers in his or her first 2.5 years;

*Over his or her lifetime, each American born in the 1990s will eat 1,654 chickens, 74 turkeys, 25 pigs, 11 cows, 2 sheep and 18,675 eggs;

*One American child generates as much CO2 as 106 Haitian kids;

*Zahara Jolie-Pitt will produce 45,000 lbs of CO2 yearly, compared with 221 pounds if she still lived in Ethiopia;

*Only 45 percent of SUV owners in the United States have two or more kids;

*It would take up to 223 trees to offset the CO2 produced by a child watching three hours of TV every day for 18 years.

Discuss: Comment below or write me here.

Return to Eco Geek

TODAY'S TOP JOBS

View All Top Jobs

>> view all top homes

>> view all homes

<script language=JavaScript src="http://ads.heraldnet.com/servlet/ajrotator/105699/0/vj?z=heraldnet&dim=100749&abr=$scriptiniframe"></script><noscript><a href="http://ads.heraldnet.com/servlet/ajrotator/105699/0/cc?z=heraldnet"><img src="http://ads.heraldnet.com/servlet/ajrotator/105699/0/vc?z=heraldnet&dim=100749&abr=$imginiframe" width="728" height="90" border="0"></a></noscript>
\|Contact Us \|Advertiser Services \|Home Delivery \|Newsstand Locations \|Classifieds \|Feedback \|About the Company \|Work@the Herald \|Site Map	© 2008 The Daily Herald Co., Everett, WA.