The term "carbon footprint" is thrown around with regularity in Green circles nowadays. This list shows just how big a carbon producer we can individually be. And you thought the power plants were bad? When reading this I envisioned a little smoke stack on our roof with that horrible looking smoke just pouring out of it. This is a list of items that almost every household uses on a regular basis. These statistics are based on a yearly emissions rate of pounds of CO2 per item in the U.S.: 

 There is a book by David Gershon: “Low Carbon Diet”: A 30 day program to lose 5,000 pounds. It is really mind boggling how much CO2 we all dump into the atmosphere. We all need to go on THIS diet.