Reduce your carbon footprint

By: Olivia Landolfo

Car pooling• When people carpool just once a week it saves

20%

• Combine trips, don’t make one if its not necessary

• Less then a mile? Walk or ride a bike

• You can also get exercise • People also work from home

Reducing carbon at your home

• Programmable thermostat – Costs about $50 or less and will save you that much or more in a year

• Weather-stripping and Caulking – Costs barley nothing while reducing your energy use

• Heating and cooling- Only leave it on while your there, no need to have things running when your not home

• Water conserving- turn off the water while your brushing your teeth, washing your face, shaving etc.

Saving carbon while at work

• Enable your computer and monitor when your done

• You don’t always need to print, cut down on printing everything, email it or fax it over

• Make sure all the lights are off in the office before leaving

• For lunch time, bring your own or walk somewhere close to eat

Reduce, reuse, recycle

• People need to stop buying so many things

• When something is broken try and fix it before throwing it away

• After every plastic bottle or can we drink we should recycle it

Work cited

• insulation, installing 180mm thick loft. "Carbon Footprint - Carbon Footprint Reduction." Carbon Footprint - Home of Carbon Management. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Jan. 2012. <http://www.carbonfootprint.com/minimisecfp.html>.

• insulation, installing 180mm thick loft. "Carbon Footprint - Carbon Footprint Reduction." Carbon Footprint - Home of Carbon Management. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Jan. 2012. <http://www.carbonfootprint.com/minimisecfp.html>.