How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

As previously mentioned, this page will inform you on how to reduce your carbon footprint. Making less of our carbon footprint will help illiminate the harm that is causing climate change.

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Top 5 Ways to Reduce Carbon Footprint

  1. Eat more plant foods and less animal foods
  2. Try other modes of transports
  3. Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
  4. Choose energy-effiecient appliances
  5. Turn down the tempertaure at home
  1. Raising livestock is a lot harder and more riskier than we think and causes so much harm to the environment. It produces so much methane gas, which is a gas that traps more heat than carbon dioxide. Not only that, but it results in deforestation. Cutting trees and freeing up space to raise livestock requires a lot of free land. So when we chop trees, it releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Instead, eating vegatable based foods will help reduce much harm by 73%.

  2. Using cars for transportation is responsible for at least 15% of the harm caused today. Instead, traveling shorter distances with bikes is more effecient to saving energy and reducing pollutions. If that's not possible, try to carpooling or traveling in a bus/train to get around.

  3. As the name says, it is important to consider what we actually need and what we waste. The more things we buy, the more we tend to waste. So let's consider our food waste and other materials and use them in more efficient ways by recyling and reusing them for other purposes.

  4. Energy-efficient appliances are designed to use less energy rather than standard ones so try to replace all old appliances with newer, and efficient models so that it consumes less energy. Also make sure to replace incandescent light bulbs with LED bulbs so that we can reduce the amount of light energy used.

  5. Since heaters and ACs use a lot of electricity to run effectively, it is important to reduce our use of them as our need for them will triple by 2050. If your house is cold, try wearing a sweater at home. If not, then reduce the temperature of the heater. Lowering the heat by 1 degres celcius will still make a huge difference. When it is warm, try using fans instead of air conditioners.

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