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REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT! Save up all of your errands and shopping trips so that you need to drive fewer times. Here’s what WE can do to help reduce our carbon footprint: By choosing to carpool 2x a week, one can cut greenhouse gas emissions by 1,600 pounds per year. Traveling in more fuel- efficient vehicles can helps reduce energy consumption and lower CO 2 emissions. Transportation requires burning fossil fuels for energy, releasing CO 2 and other heat- trapping gases into the atmosphere, causing climate change. Vera Gonzalez Be cool and carpool!

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Page 1: Reduce Carbon Footprint

REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT!

Save up all of your errands and shopping trips so that you need to drive fewer times.

Here’s what WE can do to help reduce our carbon footprint:

By choosing to carpool 2x a week, one can cut greenhouse gas emissions by 1,600 pounds per year.

Traveling in more fuel-efficient vehicles can helps reduce energy consumption and lower CO2 emissions.

Transportation requires burning fossil fuels for energy, releasing CO2 and other heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, causing climate change.

Vera Gonzalez

Be cool and carpool!

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Earth Day: Environmental Tips. EPA. Environmental Protection Agency, 13 Mar. 2013. Web. 27 Apr. 2013. <http://www.epa.gov/earthday/tips.htm>.

United States Department of State. U.S. Climate Action Report 2010. Washington: Global Publishing Services, June 2010. Web. 27 Apr. 2013. <http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/natc/usa_nc5.pdf>.

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