Challenge 2:
Download the North -Your Climate Journey
app (available for both android and apple) and get familiar with it so you can
track your carbon starting on May 1st. This app is being improved all the time,
so as our year progresses, you’ll have more options. Track your carbon footprint
for a week (Good), a month (Better), a year (Best).
It’s simple
to use, but here are some tips to help you begin.
Tips:
- Enter your household electricity by month. Use the total kWh from the most current month’s bill. Since it’s likely your April bill will not have arrived by May 1st, use your March bill. You can go back and update the entry when the next actual bill arrives.
- If natural gas cannot be entered as an item, you can enter it as heat as a gas boiler. Just like your electricity bill, enter the most recent month’s bill and update it when the new bill arrives.
- Enter things you do regularly as recurring events to save time. For example, your daily commute by car can be entered to recur 5 days a week. Meals can also be put in as recurring events.
- Enter meals by meal type rather than ingredient.
- Purchases may not show up when you search for an item, but you can enter them under spending in the closest category. Make sure to change the currency (bottom right) before entering the amount you spent.
The app shows you in real time how each choice
increases your carbon footprint, by illustrating carbon as “bubbles” that
accumulate. With every entry, you’ll get a clearer picture on what your
footprint looks like. Bigger carbon emitters are depicted as bigger bubbles.
Small ones as smaller bubbles. So, you can really “see” what impact your
choices are having. The more you use it, the more intuitive it becomes.
The results can be quite eye-opening, so be
curious, and see where the North - your climate journey app takes you! Happy
tracking!
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