Carbon footprint
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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CARBON FOOTPRINT
BY:VANESA CHAVEZ
Your carbon footprint measures the total impact you lifestyle makes on the environment, from your utilities consumption to the way you get around.Online calculators let you enter specific data, that provide you with a numerical representation of your personal contribution to global warming and other environmental problems.
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By reducing you carbon footprint, you can minimize the impact and the amount of greenhouse gases you produce.
Walk or ride a bike whenever possible for a zero emissions activity.Instead of driving alone to work, use a carpull.You can further minimize your impact by riding public transportation and taking direct flights when possible.
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HEATING AND COOLING-
The way you heat and cool your home contributes to your carbon footprint.To reduce your impact and cut utility costs, make small changes that add up over time.Check your houses for drafts and leaks around doors,windows,outlets,and pipes , and make sure that unseated areas are insulated.
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At home,turn the heater down at night and when your at work,and turn you water heater down when you are out of town.According to the Carbon Footprint website you can cut your heating bill by 8 percent just by turning your central heating down by 1 degree centigrade.
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You should also have your heating and cooling systems maintained regularly so they can use energy efficiently.
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UP CYCLING
Up cycling is the process of converting old or discarded materials into something useful and often beautiful. For example: Stretching out a wire clothes hanger then tying strips of a plastic bag around it to make a wreath= up cycling!
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Up cycling gives an item a better purpose. And while jimmying the lock on your car to is giving that hanger a new purpose, it's not necessarily better or more beautiful. And the mangled hanger is likely destined for the trash, which is the opposite intent of up cycling.
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SUSTAINABILITY
Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and we'll being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment.
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Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generation.
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Sustainability is important to make sure that we have and will continue to have, the water, materials, and resources to protect human health and our environment.
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