Transcript carbon fooootprint

By:Silvana Giovannone
• A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on
the environment, and in particular climate change.
• It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our dayto-day lives through burning fossil fuels for transportation,
electricity, heating, ect.
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Most electronics have a standby mode
that uses energy even when not in use.
Unplug cell phone chargers, laptops,
stereos, televisions, ect.
Try using a power strip for all these items
so you just have to flick a switch, and its
all off.
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For office use; Bring in a glass or mug and stop using
disposable cups.
Power down everything before leaving.
Try and carpool if possible, or take public transportation if its
available.
Consider saving files on a flash drive instead of printing
everything.
Only use the appropriate amount of lighting.
Bring a lunch or walk to get lunch instead of driving to go get
lunch.
Shut off lights in unused rooms, or get your building to install
occupancy sensors.
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Reduce- Avoid using excessive packaging. You will have to throw it away at
your home garbage and then it will just take up more space at land fills.
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Reuse- Try and re-use products as many times as possible. Often people
will only use a product once even though it could be used many more times
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Recycle- uses less energy and produces less solution rather than making
things from scratch.
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