Channel: paul wheaton

Category: Science & Technology

Tags: electric carapple seedscarbon footprintveganismclotheslinerocket mass heaterled lightspooless

Description: Excerpted from "Building a Better World in Your Backyard - instead of being angry at bad guys" permies.com/bwb The carbon footprint for the average american adult is 30 tons per year. 11 things that can take that to zero. Electric car, 2 tons. Laundry with cold water and drying with a line or rack, 4 tons. Lights to LED, 0.04 tons. Pooless 0.25 tons. Food choices 10.5 tons. Strict vegan diet cut 4.5 tons. Omnivore with animal products from pastured sources 6.5 tons. Home garden. Cold climate, switching from electric heat to natural gas heat, 20.5 tons. Switching from electric heat to a rocket mass heater, 29 tons. Using electric micro heaters to heat people instead of the whole house with electric heat, 23.5 tons. If you eat an apple a day and put the seeds in your pocket, then plant those seeds when you get a chance, 100 tons. My math starts with tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year per adult and the relationship with heat here permies.com/wiki/carbon-footprint-heat - note the switch at one point from tons per adult to tons per house. This was a tough choice - in the end going with "house" and clearly documenting it. Rocket mass heater stuff richsoil.com/rocket-stove-mass-heater.jsp For the stuff about micro heaters ... I wrote the article richsoil.com/electric-heat.jsp a very long time ago and then made the quick youtube vid which you see a clip of in this youtu.be/CqJoXyBuxRw bernal brothers animation permies.com/bernal Video Stock footage - videvo.net - Creative Commons Music credits: Acoustic Guitar 1 by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CastleShire - Chris Haugen - Creative Commons juured.ee ecohome.net Lehmund Feuer Thanks to my patreon peeps for pushing me into making videos again patreon.com/pwvids Dr. Hugh Gill Kultur Kyle Neath Mehron Kugler Kerry Rodgers Dolius Jocelyn Campbell jocelyncampbell.com Bill Crim Greg Martin Bill Erickson Vention Bartell Ashley Taylor G Cooper Chris Sugg Bryan Beck Kevin Perry Paula Creevy Eric Tolbert Denzil crews danita neu Polly Jayne Smyth James Tutor JMBlackwater226R All my stuff: permies.com/stuff