Carbon Footprint Reduction

By: Mary Kate Wilding

What is a Carbon footprint?

• A measure of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a person, organization or state in a given time

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How can I reduce my Carbon footprint?

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Shorten your shower

• The average shower lasts about 8 minutes.

• If you cut your shower by 2 minutes, you could cut 340 lbs of CO2 emissions each year.

Change your light bulbs

• Chang your light bulbs from incandescent to a Fluorescents.

• Changing bulbs could cut about 50 lbs of carbon emissions each year.

• CFL’s last much longer than incandescent.

Eat Less Red Meat

• If you get 30% of your calories from meat, dairy, and poultry, your diet contributes 3,000lbs of CO2 to the atmosphere each year.

• You don’t have to stop eating meat, but if you reduce your consumption of red meat, you’ll reduce you’re annual carbon footprint.

Recycle

• If the average household recycled all it’s paper, plastic, and glass, they would cut 1,000 lbs of CO2 emissions each year.

Work Cited

• http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx• en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carbon_footprint• http://dilbert.com/• http://

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJwt9nwCElA&NR=1&feature=fvwp

• http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2010/11/01/shropshire-achieves-household-recycling-record/

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