Monday, May 26, 2008

Carbon Footprint


A Carbon Footprint is a measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide. About my self there are three ways I contribute greenhouse gases. For example each weekend I drive 70km to my family house, I don’t use recycle material and I eat a lot of meat and milk. I used two website to measure the exact carbon footprint. In the first site I got 2.55 and the second site I got 10.5 so, the average is 6.525. In my class I asked four student and I came out that all of them got 6 and above. There are a lot of solutions to reduce the carbon footprint. For example use energy efficient light bulbs because it is energy efficient and long life also each bulb we use it saves at least 100 kg of CO2. Buy a car that is friendly to the environment and we should remember that our driving style also effect the carbon footprint.

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