What is Carbon Footprint?
Let’s understand about carbon footprint by watching the following video –
Let’s learn more about it with some more simple videos. You can use this video to educate your kids about it.
How can you contribute to reducing it?
Definitely, you can’t do it overnight. But by applying a few simple changes in your day-to-day lifestyle, you can surely reduce your contribution to a big low level.
Did you know?
We might not realize it while using our mailboxes but the simplest of things like email also adds up to our carbon footprint. All the old emails which are lying in your mailbox are adding up to this (bad) cause because maintaining these emails in the servers and storing them also adds up to resource utilization and hence carbon emission in the atmosphere. So, always keep your mailbox clean by deleting unwanted emails. Want to know more? Check out this video –
More Ways to reduce our carbon footprint
- Have one less child – As per July 2017 study published in Environmental Research Letters
- Live car-free, Forgo air travel
- Adopt a plant-based diet
- Drive less, instead, do walking, biking, carpooling, etc
- Follow the 4 R’s – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle & Refuse
- Reforestation or avoid deforestation
- Ways to reduce industry’s carbon footprint
- Keep your mailbox clean
- And many more ways you can think to reduce emitting CO2 in the air. 🙂
Further Readings
Read these articles to understand more about it.
- Wikipedia Link
- Try calculating your contribution
- Check out more on ted talk videos
- Latest Google news
- Latest Google videos
Let us know how you would like to reduce your carbon footprint or if you already do so, share it with our readers about the simple and easy ways to do it.
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