Cool Ways You Can Help Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
By Colin, Jake, Cassidy, Michael, and Liam
Most people who care about the earth, often don’t know any ways to help and reduce their carbon footprint. Below i am going to list a few cool ways you can help combat climate change;
- Alternatives to driving. When possible, walk or ride your bike in order to avoid carbon emissions completely. Carpooling is also an excellent way to avoid unnecessary carbon emissions.
- Lighting. Turn off lights you’re not using and when you leave the room. Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent or LED ones.
- Thermostat. Don’t set it too high or low.
- Eat locally-produced and organic food. Transporting food requires petroleum-based fuels, and many fertilizers are also fossil fuel-based.
- Cut the beef and dairy. It takes a lot of resources to raise cows, and it’s especially bad if you buy beef from somewhere like Brazil, where it was grazed on land that used to be tropical forest but was cleared for agricultural use. Deforestation is one of the main contributors to climate change.
- Unplug your gadgets. Leaving your tech plugged in when it's not in use is a major waste of energy, even leaving your phone charger plug into the wall is still using energy.
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