A place for carbon obsessed citizens

Well the fact that at least 40 people visit this blog a week has convinced me to keep posting however irregular that might be, hopefully more regular shortly.

Consider this, there are reported to be 6000 blogs in Auckland alone, wow, who is reading all this stuff?

However, I figure if you are going to put aside time to read a blog maybe you need something a bit extra. Well in the interests of keeping topical I have found a neat little game that taps into the trendy climate change debate in a cool way. Its called Faketown. I figure that keeping people in front of their computers playing games has to be the most environmentally sound activity going. No nasty fuel is being consumed and more importantly body energy levels kept to a minimum, hence less food required, and less energy as a result.

Here is a interesting question:
If you walked to the shops to purchase your food with a re-usable bag, your body would expend energy and require kilojoules in the form of food to top up. Here is the thing, would the food required consume more energy in the production process, than that expended by being lazy and driving a small car the same distance?
I'm sure there is an interesting calculation in there somewhere.