Your carbon footprint is a measurement of the impact that our daily activities have on our environment and climate change. It allows us to better understand the amount of greenhouse gases we are generating by the way we are currently choosing to live. It takes into account all the greenhouse gases we are individual generating through the burning of fossil fuels for our electricity, heating, transportation, and so on.
The average footprint for people in United States is 20.40 tonnes
The average for the industrial nations is about 11 tonnes
The average worldwide carbon footprint is about 4 tonnes
However, the worldwide target to combat climate change is 2 tonnes.
Determine what yours is and learn ways to reduce it by going to
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/
Thursday, June 11, 2009
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