What is a human carbon footprint?
A carbon footprint is the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused directly and indirectly by individuals, events, products and organizations.
What are 5 ways to help reduce your carbon footprint?
Switch to a clean energy company. Working with companies that use hydro, solar power or, more notably, wind energy is an effective way of helping to reduce your carbon footprint.
Every day that you forgo meat and dairy, you are reducing your carbon footprint by 8 pounds, that’s an impressive 2,920 pounds a year.
Don’t buy fast fashion. Clothing made poorly and quickly is usually disposed of quickly, too. These items of clothing fill up landfills, decompose and produce methane. There’s also the transport of this clothing to consider; most fast fashion retailers have factories in countries like China, India, and Bangladesh, which requires significant burning of fossil fuels to ship to your country.
Avoid single-use plastic. This includes things like plastic cutlery, cosmetics packaging, plastic shopping bags, plastic drinking bottles, coffee cups and the packaging around fresh food produce. By bringing your own reusable bags shopping, buying loose fruit and vegetables and drinking from a reusable water bottle instead of buying a new bottle of water every time.
Drive less. If you can, consider cycling, walking or public transportations to places where you would usually drive.
Reference: inspirecleanenergy.com
