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According to carbonfootprint.com it is estimated that the average person needs to save about 7,000 kg of CO2 per year. So planting just 7 trees each year is one strategy for achieving this.
Planting trees is one of the easiest ways to offset your carbon footprint and become carbon neutral. Trees absorb carbon dioxide to produce oxygen and wood, both of which are very useful for humans and other animals.
Planting trees has other benefits too, like creating a habitat for birds and other wildlife. And of course, it beautifies the place we live.
Tree planting is recognised the world over as a practical short-term solution to offsetting carbon dioxide and its probably the easiest and most tangible way to offset your carbon emissions. Each tree planted offsets your environmental impact by breathing in about 1 tonne of CO2 emissions over its lifetime of 100 years.
Cityhop carshare has calculated that its members in the past 12 months have driven approximately 120,000kms.
Says Victoria Carter, co-founder of Cityhop car share, NZs only cars by the hour service, “We decided as part of out commitment to sustainability to measure our carbon footprint based on the carbon emissions of the cars our members use and the average kilometres driven.
“According to the carbonfootprint calculator, each one of our Sirion cars uses 1.09 tonnes per year based on the average kilometres driven by members. We used an average, because we added to the fleet so some cars used more than others. We also found some locations were better used than others.”
“We calculated that the 17 cars had driven roughly 136,000 kilometres in the past 12 months
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