Our extended Family & Friends

How lucky we are. So many fun activities & gatherings with family and lots of wonderful friends throughout the year.
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So many smiles... Thank you for making us happy!

  Eric's clan takes a bus trip to Moab


  We worry about our contributions to Anthropogenic Climate Change, so we estimate our carbon footprint each year.
We're making steady progress from a high in 2005: 2016 was a new record low for the family -- Wuhoo!
This was largely due to reductions in air travel (replaced by lots of local trips pictured above),
  and we also continue to eat less meat and switched to 100% clean electricity in February.

Graph of GHG emissions

Emissions factors used
1 kWh of PG&E electricity = 0.5 lbs CO2e                                   1 therm of natural gas = 13.5 lbs CO2e
1 gallon of gasoline = 20 lbs CO2e                                       1 passenger mile of air travel = 0.5 lbs CO2e
1 serving of Beef = 12 lbs (and 1 CCF of water); Cheese: 5.4 lbs; Pork = 4.8 lbs; Poultry = 2.8 lbs CO2e
1 CCF (748 gallons) of water in SF Bay Area = 2 lbs CO2e

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