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How to decrease your carbon footprint - Drive less, bike more! By finding alternatives to driving your car, you are lowering the consumption of gasoline. Burning gasoline to run your car releases carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas that speeds global warming! Yikes! -Carpool if you have to drive. Whhen you carpool, you're also decreasing overall use of gasoline. For example, say you carpool with one friend--instead of driving two cars, and using twice the gasoline, you are producing only half the carbon dioxide that you would without carpooling. Imagine if you carpooled with more than two friends! What an easy way to save the planet AND money! - Use local transportation, like buses or subways. This is just like carpooling, but with much more people that you can with your own vehicle. It's cheaper, too. The bus might take longer, but planning around the bus schedule helps you become more time-efficient and organized to get your things done on time! -Reduce, reuse, and recycle! Manuufacturing items for sale or even creating the material to manufacture the items for sale involve using machinery which are most likely powered by electricity. Generating electricity creates carbon dioxide. By reducing, reusing and recycling, you're minimizing the amount being released into the atmosphere. What more, when you buy products, it involves transportation, which is fueled by gasoline, which releases carbon dioxide. Who knew so much was involved in producing just one product? -Replace incandescent light bulbs witth compact fluorescent light bulbs. They use less energy and are more efficient at generating light. Also, this will ease up your electricity bill and save you money. It's not only a smart way to save the planet, but also a smart way to save money. The perks to going green! - Turn off your lights when you ddon't need them. Obviously, they require electricity to be turned on, and you know the deal with electricity. (Read the reduce, reuse and recycle tip.) - Use the stairs instead of the eelevator. That way, you can reduce electricity use AND burn off that snack you didn't mean to eat the other day. :D - Purchase items made out of 100% reccycled material. These items required less energy to make. - Shop locally at a farmer's market.< Most likely, the vendors at a farmers market have grown food closer to where they are selling and required less transportation to reach you. Less transportation equals less emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Also, they are less likely to have used pesticides, which is damaging to the ecosystem, and potentially to your health. -Changing your thermostat even onne degree higher during the summer and one degree lower during the winter can help you save energy and money. -Calculate your ecological footprint here and determine what you can do to reduce it. |
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