StepGreen.org (beta): Enrich your life A sample visualization showing a user's history

Take the stairs at work.

Last comment by user_661 on 25 Jan 2011:
I'm stupendously lazy, but I've got to change my habits if I hope to make a difference on this planet!!
See the rest of this discussion

Description

Instead of using the elevator, take the stairs at work. For journeys up or down one or two floors, get some exercise and save the energy of calling the elevator to your floor and riding the elevator to the next.

Tags

  • behavior
  • individual
  • other
  • repeatable
  • transportation
  • work
  • year round
See All Existing Tags

Assumptions We Made

350 W/floor estimate, either up or down (esp as many trips from a higher floor may require the elevator to come up to that floor). Assume that each workday the stairs are used to go one floor 4 times (up/down for work, up/down for lunch).

Impacts

Initial Impacts

Each time you carry out this action, the immediate impacts are:

  • Saves 0.03 dollars
  • Saves 0.35 kilowatt hours
  • Saves 0.48 lbs of CO2

Ongoing Impacts

Some actions also have additional impact over time. For this action, these are:

  • Unknown

Potential Annual Impact

We assume that this action will be carried out daily (about 160 times a year). In this case, in a year you could save:
  • 5.44 dollars
  • 56.00 kilowatt hours
  • 76.16 lbs of CO2
Sign up to commit