Reducing Your Carbon Footprint By: Dylan Evans. What is a carbon Footprint? A carbon footprint is how much total greenhouse gas an organization, or even.

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

By: Dylan Evans

What is a carbon Footprint?

• A carbon footprint is how much total greenhouse gas an organization, or even a single person emits.

• These gases can be made through, transportation, land clearance, and even consumption of food, fuels, and manufactured goods.

Facts

• A typical mid-sized sedan produces 9,500 pounds of carbon dioxide each year. While a current hybrid car produces less than half of that annually.

• Converting the average household to wind or solar power saves 22,000 pounds of carbon dioxide each year.

• And preserving an average acre of forest in the united states saves more than 200,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per year.

“How do I shrink my footprint?”

• Watching this handy video will help you calculate your carbon footprint!

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMH57368QZY&feature=related

• And this video made by the same people will help you reduce it!

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7zwrzEyzkA&feature=relmfu

Works Cited

"Carbon footprint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint>.

"Facts about greenhouse gas emissions — High Country News." High Country News. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2012. <http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16150>.