Your Carbon Footprint

By: Daniel LaPoint

How you can reduce your carbon footprint(Car)

• Replace your air, oil and fuel filters according to schedule

• Keep your tires fully inflated, that alone could save 400-700 pounds of CO2 emissions every year

• Buy a fuel efficient car, a hybrid or electric

How you can reduce your carbon footprint(Travel)

• Carpool with a car worker to reduce 20% of your weekly carbon emissions

• Use your bike and ride to work, could also help you keep in shape

• Walk every once in a while and use no carbon emissions

How you can reduce your carbon footprint(Home)

• Use compact fluorescent light bulbs, they use 1/3 the energy of normal light bulbs and save you 40$ over their lifetime

• Keep your temperature a little cooler in the winter and a little warmer in the summer. Like 62 and 72

• Shortening your showers will greatly reduce your bills also

How you can reduce your carbon footprint(At the Office)

• Keep lights off unless they are needed• Use your windows intelligently to reduce your

heating bills• Bring your lunch to school so that you don’t

use gas or emissions when going out to buy a lunch, also saves you money

How you can reduce your carbon footprint(Your life)

• Reduce, Reuse and Recycle because the average amount of CO2 released in a manufacturing process is 4-8 pounds

• Donate old electronics to Charities for recycling • Eat less meat, vegetarians save 3,000 pounds of

CO2 emissions every year• More ways to reduce your carbon footprint…• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7zwrzEyzk

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Works Cited

• http://www.carbonfund.org/saveenergy?gclid=CKu5jNmttakCFadd5QodbRpm8w

• http://www.carbon-clear.com/us/services/carbon_reduction_plan?gclid=CJj97Yq1takCFaYRNAodIiPmUA

• http://www.carbonfootprint.com/minimisecfp.html