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Carbon Footprint Reduction

Carbon Footprint Reduction. By : John Mancini. What is a Carbon Footprint?. A carbon footprint is the total set of Green House Gases (GHG) emissions caused by an organization, event, product, or person.

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Carbon Footprint Reduction

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  1. Carbon Footprint Reduction By : John Mancini

  2. What is a Carbon Footprint? A carbon footprint is the total set of Green House Gases (GHG) emissions caused by an organization, event, product, or person. It is often expressed in terms of the amount of carbon dioxide, or its equivalent of other (GHG’s) emitted.

  3. Simple ways to reduce you carbon footprint: Keep showers quick, as well as looking into buying a low-flow shower head Check windows, doors, attics and basements for drafts, by sealing these leaks, you can reduce your carbon footprint by nearly half a ton each year Installing just 5 compact fluorescent lamps (CFL’s) can reduce your CO2 emissions by about 500 pounds per year

  4. Food Products • Buy organic and local food products. • When food is locally grown, they don’t have to travel, which in turn helps improve your carbon footprint. • (coffee often has a large carbon footprint, due to the distance most coffee beans have to travel in order to be sold) • Bottled water has a huge carbon footprint. Due to the fact that the water is bottled in plastic at one location and then shipped all over the world.

  5. Travel/Shopping • When shopping, try to window shop or browse first, there for you will only buy what you need, or really want and not impulse buying. • Take a direct Flight: • If you need to travel, try taking a direct flight if possible, as apposed to taking multiple passenger jets, which will impact your carbon footprint negatively.

  6. Home Life • Simple tasks such as: • Turning of your light, TV, DVD Player, Computer when you leave the room will begin to reduce your carbon footprint immediately. • If you have central Air/Heating, turning it down be even 1 degree, will even help reduce your heating bill by 8%.

  7. Works Cited "10 Easy Ways To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint from Life Goggles." Life Goggles - Green reviews, news and interviews. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Jan. 2011. <http://lifegoggles.com/489/10-easy-ways-to-reduce-your-carbon-footprint/>. "Carbon Footprint - Home of Carbon Management." Carbon Footprint - Home of Carbon Management. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Jan. 2011. <http://www.carbonfootprint.com/>. "How to reduce your carbon footprint - Green Wiki." Green Wiki. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Jan. 2011. <http://green.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_reduce_your_carbon_footprint>. Jefferson, Millie, producer, and Weekend America. "15 Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint | Consumed | Sustainability Coverage From American Public Media." Sustainability Coverage From American Public Media. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Jan. 2011. <http://sustainability.publicradio.org/consumed/tips.html>. area. "Carbon footprint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Jan. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint>.

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