I haven’t blogged in a while because I’ve been swamped with work and also trying to cram for my next ARE on Friday.  Who needs Ambien when you have Construction Documents and Services?

Anyway, I found this interesting article from the LA Times about an installation in Copenhagen for the UN global warming summit by an LA architect.  It’s a cube built out of shipping containers and draped with video screens which give interesting facts and figures about global warming.  The cube represents an area of 1 metric ton of CO2 which is the average amount an average citizen of an industrial nation puts out per month.   Multiply that by 12 months times millions of people and well…I don’t have the exact math…but it roughly equals a boat load of CO2 per year.

I’ll have to admit, I’ve flown a lot more than I should have this year, which really is the biggest offender.  Of course, I like to travel and I only get so many vacation days per year that I don’t have the time to take a covered wagon down the Oregon Trail to get to Portland.  I believe that takes 6 months and requires hunting squirrels and caulking the wagon to ford the river.  Plus half my party would be dead from typhoid or scarlet fever and that’s no fun.

So what is the solution to reducing our carbon footprint?  Everything we seem to do or consume releases some amount of carbon.  I guess the trick is to be efficient in everything you do and hope all the little things will add up.  We just need to make our individual cube a little bit smaller and multiply that times 12 months times millions of people and maybe we won’t have polar bears falling out of the sky anymore – really disturbing video.  The global warming countdown clock is at zero.