Saturday, May 5, 2007

Carbon footprint


A carbon footprint is a total amount of greenhouse gases which is produce by human daily activities. For example, when we drive a car the engine will burns fuel which creates CO2. In addition, the increasing of CO2 will also effect to the global warming. However when I measured my footprint I get an average of 6.08 that mean I need 2 earths. Also my average of four persons of my classmate was 7.05, 6.51, 6.52and 7.59. Now I am going to discuss the problem and solution for this problem.

I will start with the problem of this and I am one of these problem because I contribute to greenhouse when I travel any short vacation by car, also I don’t recycle any product that already I used such as cans, paper and plastic bottles. Nevertheless, I used too much electricity in my life and everybody knows that in our country we produce electricity by burning fuel gas, natural gas and propane as a result all of these will produce carbon dioxide

Now I will discuss the possible solution for this problem. The first one is recycle our materials which are able to recycle like aluminum paper, plastic cans and paper. In addition, I can reduce it by minimize using of energy such as switch off lights and application when I not used and guide my friends also about this also I can eat less food.

Finally, it’s never late to make a change. A change can be possible if everybody want to change which would change everybody carbon footprint and reduce it.

Note: if you want to know how to measure your carbon footprint and how to reduce carbon footprint, the two links below will help you.
first,copy the link below

Second,past the link on the browses address window.
-Afterthat,on the new page click Download File.

It may take a few seconds for the page to set itself.
Measuring carbon footprint:
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ind_calculator.html

Ways for reducing carbon footprint:
http://www.metroactive.com/metro/08.15.07/50-ways-to-go-green-0733.html

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