Environment, Reduce Your Carbon Footprint - Here's How
?ur carbon footprint ?s si?ple. Re?ycle, reuse and reduce.
In case ?ou’re uns?re exactly wh?t ? carbon footprint i?,
here ?s the definition given by C?rbon Descent - â€Å"You?
carbon footprint is the ?um of all CO2 ?missions that are
directly and indirectly assoc?ated with your activitie? ov?r a
giv?n time fra?e (us?ally ? year)â€쳌
www.carbondescent.org.uk/glossary.php
In other words, it i? the dire?t impact w? have on our
environment as indiv?duals through the resourc?s w? consume.
Each of us h?s ? sh?re in th? combined sum tot?l effect on our
environm?nt through ?ur individu?l carbon footprint.
For example every acti?ity we undertake and every ?esource we
?se has ? certain amount ?f energy associated with ?ts
cre?tion and with the ?rocess of creation comes CO2
emission.Th? paper yo? us? ?n ? dail? basi? has associat?d with
it a certain ?evel of CO2 t? harvest, transport and process
into th? paper ?ou use. Th? food y?u eat tak?s energy to grow
and m?nufacture ?s do the clothes you wear, the fuel ?ou u?e,
the car you drive. Everything has associat?d with it some co?t
for its creation.
There are two differ?nt ty?es of carbon footprint:
1. Our Primary Footprint ?s what ?e h?ve d?rect control of, it
?s ? direct ?easure of th? CO2 emissions that arise as a result
of ou? activitie?, for example fossil fuels consumed through
transp?rtation f?om our vehic?es ?nd from ou? energy
consumption th?ough electricity, natural gas, coa?, etc.
2. The Seconda?y Footpr?nt is what ?e have no d?rect control
over, this me?sures the amount ?f indirect CO2 as ? result ?f
?hat we consume, for example the pr?ducts ?e use, th? energy
and emission associ?ted w?th its creation and u?e ov?r time.
The more we consume, the ?ore emission? associated w?th it?
creation.
How ?e c?n red?ce o?r carbon footprint?
Consume Less
Even if we do n?t have direct control ?ver ou? secondary
footprint, ?e can consume l?ss. If ?e buy less, w? can
influence the demand, decre?sing production lo?ering the CO2
emiss?on levels. So ?n effect, we can have ?n influence t?
some degree on ?ur se?ondary carbon fo?tprint through ou?
buying habits.
Recycle
It tak?s mo?e energy and mo?e resource? t? ?reate products
f?om sc?atch than it d?es to recycle. It’s ? fact. Recycling
paper use? 40 t? 60% le?s en?rgy than ?t does to create paper
from th? tree.
Recycling gl?ss us?s 40% less energy then it does it create
from its ?ase c?mponents. So ?s you can see recycling unites
us all in ? ?ommon goal to reduce energy usage, by doing this
we help c?mpanies to save in overall energ? usage which ma?es
the ?ig differ?nce.
W?th recycling, ensure that yo? continually ?ort your garbage
into different piles so that it can ?e bette? sorted and ?ade
us? of by s?meone down the line. For examp?e building ? new
can for ?our coke wi?l b? twelve time? mor? energy ?fficient if
it c?n be done fro? recycl?d materials rather than it?
original, r?w comp?nents.
In the st?te ?f California alone, resid?nts have faithfully
recycled ove? 10 billion cans and bottl?s ?hich has saved the
ene?gy equiv?lent of pow?ring over 500,000 homes. It rea?ly
ta?es n? eff?rt to do.
Not only m?n made things can b? recycled â€" ?emember th? value
of composting not ?nly in reducing how much ?e throw into
landfills but als? the potential fertiliser ?t ?an provide. In
both situat?ons you'll b? reducing your carbon footprint
indirectl? by preventing th? use of energy further down the
line.
Re-use
On? of the things w? take most for g?anted is our water supply
but mo?t of ?s don't actually ?ake the ?ost efficient us? of
it. Fo? ?xample how many of you? friends d? yo? know wh? store
rainwate? and use it f?r laund?y or for flushing the toi?et?
In ? m?re obvious change, th?nk abo?t h?w often ?ou wash your
cloth?s and wh?ther after wear?ng ? shi?t fo? ? coup?e of hours
?t rea?ly n?eds to go through the carbon intensive process of
be?ng washed, dried ?nd iron?d? Little change perhaps but ?
big ?esult can come.
Knowledge i? power, by calculating your carbon footp?int you
can tak? st?ps to reduce ?t. Reducing doesn’t have t? be a
hug? sacrifice ?ut ?ittle alterations and changes you mak?
along the w?y c?n make ? dr?stic difference.
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator1.html
Using that si?ple ?antra is in f?ct a great w?y to ev?luate
what y?u're doing in reg?rds to th? environment. So, get t? it
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