Reducing Carbon footprints

1. Reducing Carbon footprints

2. Ways to Reduce carbon emissons • Walk or bike instead of driving • Recycle and use recycled products • Communicate over phone for meetings rather than flying and meeting up • Shop at local farms rather than supermarkets • Inflate the tires on your car, it increase MPG • Use compact florescent light bulbs they save 2/3rds the energy

3.  If car manufacturers were to increase their fleets' average gas mileage about 3 miles per gallon, this country could save a million barrels of oil every day, while US drivers would save $25 billion in fuel costs annually. Carbon dioxide: -a colorless and odorless gas -formed during respiration, combustion and organic decomposition

4. Causes of Carbon Emissions • automobiles produce over 20% of carbon emissions • Airplanes cause 12% of transportation sector emissions • Electricity generation produces 40% of carbon emissions • Buildings structure account for about 12% of carbon dioxide emissions.

5. By: Christina Neuberger