I always thought my car was my biggest carbon footprint.  I’ve been surprised to learn that my house and even my diet can be a bigger source of greenhouse gases.   Animals give off hot air balloon-full quantities of methane, a highly heat trapping gas.  The more vegetarian, and in fact vegan, you are, the less is your dietary carbon footprint (see Tofu recipe book elsewhere in these blogs to take a great big leap into the world of low carbon diets).  AND, our houses - heating, cooling, lighting, laundering, drying, hot water, appliances - you name it and almost everything we rely on - yes, even the garbage disposal - has a significant carbon footprint.  But if you sign up for  a CL&P home energy audit, you can find out where you are wasting energy and money and make your home cozier at the same time.  Its such a no brainer, I’m even having it done at my house in June.  Go to the CL&P website and send in the form - within a day they called me back to arrange the audit at my West Hartford home.   They spend several hours intoducing you to those mischievious gaps and cracks that make your house an energy sieve.  And they weatherize while they are thre.    The best part - its totally a free service if you are a gas or electric customer.   So sign up for your pocketball and the planet.

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