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Understanding Energy, Carbon Footprints, and E-Waste for Sustainable Living

Learn about energy consumption, carbon footprints, and e-waste in this lesson. Discover the importance of sustainable energy and how ICT can help monitor and conserve environmental resources. Explore ways to reduce your carbon footprint and offset its impact, as well as the significance of sustainability in conserving our planet's limited resources and combating climate change.

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Understanding Energy, Carbon Footprints, and E-Waste for Sustainable Living

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  1. Environmental and Sustainability Issues

  2. This lesson will cover: • Energy, carbon footprints and e-waste. • The need for sustainable energy. • How ICT can be used to monitor and conserve environmental resources.

  3. Energy consumption

  4. Carbon footprints A carbon footprint is a measure of the greenhouse gases that are emitted when energy from non-green sources is used. If you take the bus to school, check Facebook, watch TV or switch on a light, these will all leave a carbon footprint. For some companies, manufacturing and delivery processes can create a large footprint. Even office-based businesses consume a lot of energy. Google, for instance, has a huge carbon footprint because it requires very large amounts of power to run all of its servers and store its data.

  5. Carbon footprints and offsetting

  6. How big is your carbon footprint?

  7. E-waste

  8. Scrapping e-waste

  9. Sustainability Our planet only has limited resources, and people are becoming increasingly concerned about global warming and climate change. Sustainability is about making sure we live and work in a way which does not use up all of our planet’s resources or accelerate climate change. By recycling, refurbishing and reusing old electrical products, we can each make a positive difference to the environment. While the use of ICT can leave a carbon footprint, ICT can also be used to make environmentally-friendly devices.

  10. Reducing environmental impacts

  11. Using ICT to conserve resources

  12. Using ICT to monitor the environment

  13. What do you think?

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