PJ's Carbon Footprint

polaris

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

That's one reason i'm moving to a city after i graduate.

Out in the suburbs you can't even really have a job without a car cuz there are so many crowded roads and long distances. No side walks either :(

its a diseased society out in the burbs ...

Pearl Jam and toast

aNiMaL wrote:

Here is local Seattle news footage about this announcement by Pearl Jam:

http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer.php?vidId=75091&catId=231

haha and the reporter's name is Tim Robbins... son.

close enough

cool, thanks for putting that up!

decides2dream

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

That's one reason i'm moving to a city after i graduate.

Out in the suburbs you can't even really have a job without a car cuz there are so many crowded roads and long distances. No side walks either :(

we have sidewalks.
granted, absolutely, need a car to get to work...although i did for a short while have a job i walked to.....and for 6 years i had a job a mile away. so technically i could've walked or rode a bike...but yes, i like my sleep...and i also had way too much shite to carry to walk or put on a bike. i can and do walk to many things though....so it all depends where in suburbia you live. i could easily work in NYC as i can walk to my closest train station too. i love where i live. it's expensive, but i feel like i have the best of both worlds.

BackwardsBlues1

ironically, the biggest carbon footprint of my life will be during the 2 years I spend in environment school...

once I get back to the city it should go down.

Spunkie

My carbon footprint is extremely low for transportation. However, I have yet to teach myself how to maintain nutrition without eating meat.

I volunteer with a local "environmental" organization, and PJ's post has made me want to investigate further on this organizations' carbon impact.

Thanks for the links of outstanding anti-climate change groups. I swear the last book I read on socially responsible investments was explaining how cutting down forests was not that bad. *Jes**!*

Pearl Jam and toast

tish wrote:

I have yet to teach myself how to maintain nutrition without eating meat.

*Jes**!*

- Lots of pastas, legumes, DEFINETLY a multi vitamin (which all of you should be taking ), lots of green things, protein shakes are good (and they've improved light years, they actually taste great now!), and Soymilk. Silk is the best brand i think.

That's a good base

tybird

Does this factoring of the band's carbon footprint include CO2 produced by smoking????? It really should, as bad carbon byproducts are bad carbon byproducts.

Pearl Jam and toast

tybird wrote:

Does this factoring of the band's carbon footprint include CO2 produced by smoking????? It really should, as bad carbon byproducts are bad carbon byproducts.

haha good question.

Ed smokes good cigs though.. no preservatives, all natural, no chemicals, etc. Barely a cigarrette as we know it.

If it's the kind i'm thinking of..

I know the ones from Southeast Asia are like that, Ed's sound like the same deal.



Pearl Jam's C02 output:
Transportation: 40%
manufacturing: 35%
Eddie: 10%
...

catefrances

tish wrote:

My carbon footprint is extremely low for transportation. However, I have yet to teach myself how to maintain nutrition without eating meat.

i don't know about maintaining your nutrition but just the thought of a butcher shop got me to stop eating red meat. i can't even touch meat now. yuck!

beachdweller

http://www.climatecrisis.net/

check it out...go to take action, and then the "become carbon neutral" link

kenny olav

Hey, that means all of us donated that money! Glad we could help!

http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/34001216

Pearl Jam donates green for environment

07/11/2006 7:37 PM, AP


Pearl Jam has promised to donate $100,000 to several groups that focus on climate change, renewable energy and other environmental causes as part of an effort to offset carbon emissions the band churns out on tour.

"Our Carbon Portfolio Strategy is the newest component of our ongoing efforts to advance clean renewable energy and carbon mitigation," the Seattle-based band said in a statement posted on its Web site Tuesday.

Guitarist Stone Gossard said the group has been tracking its carbon emissions from vehicles used on tour and energy used in concert venues and hotels to estimate the band's contribution to global warming.

"We can get a really relatively accurate picture of what that looks like over a year, and it's a considerable amount of carbon," Gossard told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in a backstage interview at a concert in Los Angeles. "We emitted about 5,000 tons of carbon on our last tour."

Cascade Land Conservancy and EarthCorps, which work to protect and replenish Puget Sound-area forests, are among nine organizations Pearl Jam picked to receive donations.

One of the donations, to IslandWood, an environmental education center, will provide scholarships for children who can't afford tuition, spokeswoman Marla Saperstein said.

The largest share of the group's donations will go to Conservation International, which does work does work in more than 40 countries.

Pearl Jam has aided other green causes in the past, including donating money to preserve a Madagascar rain forest to atone for environmental damage wrought by its last tour.

catefrances

i hate to burst everyone's environmental bubble, but you are all aware that so long as the fossil fuels are still coming out of the ground,where they belong, all the money in the world won't amount to anything. it'll make you feel less guilty, but that's about it.

Scubascott

tish wrote:

My carbon footprint is extremely low for transportation. However, I have yet to teach myself how to maintain nutrition without eating meat.

I volunteer with a local "environmental" organization, and PJ's post has made me want to investigate further on this organizations' carbon impact.

Thanks for the links of outstanding anti-climate change groups. I swear the last book I read on socially responsible investments was explaining how cutting down forests was not that bad. *Jes**!*

How does not eating meat reduce carbon emissions? Are you talking about the methane produced by the animals?

flywallyfly

Scubascott wrote:

How does not eating meat reduce carbon emissions? Are you talking about the methane produced by the animals?

He is probably refering to the clearing of forests for cattle grazing that occurs in South America mainly (which ships beef to the U.S. as well).

Scubascott

flywallyfly wrote:

He is probably refering to the clearing of forests for cattle grazing that occurs in South America mainly (which ships beef to the U.S. as well).

Ok. . . but you can't grow soybeans in a forest either. I don't understand the logic.

flywallyfly

Scubascott wrote:

Ok. . . but you can't grow soybeans in a forest either. I don't understand the logic.

On a caloric value, it takes more land for cattle grazing to equal the energy derived from your example of soybeans which uses much less land. In other words, an acre of soybeans yields MUCH more food energy than an acre used for beef production. I hope that makes sense to you, I'm a little buzzed right now !