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  Image Credit: @Elleandthebirds Hello! And welcome to my new blog Counting Carbon: A Journey. It's a place where I plan to explore my carbon footprint, and share my ongoing journey to live a more sustainable life so that it can hopefully be useful to others! Just to say a little big about myself, my background is in astronomy, so I'm really passionate about collecting data, digging into it to try to make some sense. As a result, some of my posts will be somewhat technical, although I'll try to stick to my training as an educator to keep it understandable to a broad audience. Many of the ideas swimming around my head that led I plan to collect into this blog were inspired from reading Being the Change by Peter Kalmus and constructing a life that's at harmony with your values. Now, some of you might say, "What's the point? Climate change is too big for any individual to make a difference in; we need big, policy-wide changes.", which I totally agree with! ...