Reducing your Carbon Footprint

1. Reducing your Carbon Footprint By: Kylah Rodd

2. What are Carbon Emissions? • Carbons emissions are extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which raises the overall temperature of the planet and this increases global warming. To reduce the risk of rising temperatures and extreme weather we need to reduce the amount of fossil fuels that we use. This is no easy task.

3. Reducing Carbon emissions at Home • There are many things that you can do to help reduce carbon emissions. What I could do to help eliminate my carbon footprint is do very simple things around my house like: • Recycle • Change the light bulbs in the house to more efficient energy saving light bulbs • Take shorter showers • Use cold water in the washer machine • Use less paper • Make less garbage

4. Here’s more ways to eliminate your carbon footprint at home:

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6. Reducing Carbon Emissions at school • Ways to reduce carbon emissions at school are very similar to the methods you would use at home. • Like… • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle • Use Less Heat and Air Conditioning • Buy Energy-Efficient Products- like light bulbs • And other ways that you could help do is…. • Car pool on the way to school with friends or get a more fuel efficient car • And it would help to plant more trees around the school campus

7. Reducing Carbon Emissions on the Road • For private cars…. • Purchase a fuel efferent car • Purchase a long term electric car • Regulate traffic • Reduce local pollution • Car pool with people that are going to the same place • For vans and trucks…. • Use small electric vans • Train drivers in driving energy efficiency

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