Green Guide

This post is about the Green Guide from National Geographic. They have a monthly newsletter that I signed up for. The site has several sections, including Home & Garden, Parenting, Travel & Transportation, Food and their blog.

I did their water footprint calculator, which was interesting. Here are my scores:

Home - 48

Diet - 763

Energy - 74

Stuff - 22

Overall - 907

The scores for an average American are:

Home - 100

Diet - 1056

Energy - 700

Stuff - 125

Overall - 1981

Based on this I feel pretty good about myself but the results told me I could even lower my score another 20%. I was amazed at the water it takes to produce various types of food in people's diet.

Another feature was about what country is the greenest.