Carbon Print

How big is your Carbon Footprint?

-The average footprint for people in Canada is 16 tonnes

-The average for industrial nations is 11 tonnes

-The average world wide carbon footprint is 4 tonnes

-The world wide target to combat climate change is 2 tonnes

- How big is a cubic ton of carbon-dioxide? A cubic ton would be 27x27x27 feet or 8.3x8.3x 8.3 meters

How can you reduce your carbon footprint?

- Reduce your dependency on driving your car. Walk, use public transit, car pool.

One gallon of gas contains 6 pounds of carbon. When One gallon of gas is burned it

produces 5 pounds of carbon dioxide. A 20 gallon fuel tank will produce 100 pounds of Co2.

50 tanks of gas per year produces 5200 pounds of Co2 which equals 2.36 cubic tons of Co2

per each car each year.

- Conserve electricity, water and gas. Power stations produce 21% of the green house gases. It

takes electricity to run water treatment plants to feed our water needs, which in turns

contributes to green house gases.

- Conserve, reduce, reuse and recycle as much as possible

We need to secure a sustainable environment for future generations!

Want to know your carbon footprint?

Go ahead calculate your carbon foot.

(click on our foot)

Unlike our planet "THE WILL TO ACT IS A RENEWABLE RESOURSE" AL GORE

OUR ENVIRONMENT:

Global Warming and Our Environment

What is it? Why is it a big deal? What's the impact? How do we contribute? How can we stop it? What's a carbon footprint? What are green

house gases?

So many questions to be answered.

- Global warming is the result of gases being trapped in the atmosphere which holds in heat and increases global temperatures (green house

gases)

- Green house gases consist mainly of 72% Carbon Dioxide, 15% Methane & 13% Nitrous Oxide

- The highest contributors to Green House gas emissions are as follows:

Power Stations = 21%

Industry = 16.8%

Transportation = 14%

Residential = 10%

- 60% of all Green House gases are emitted by these 4 Sectors

- Polar ice caps are melting at an alarming rate, causing rises in water levels, erosion, changes in weather patterns, creating more

unpredictable storms

- We contribute by producing carbon-dioxide emissions. Our contribution to green house gases is measure by our "Carbon Footprint"

- A carbon footprint is a measurement of how we individually and corporately contribute to green house gases. It is measured in cubic tons of

carbon-dioxide that we produce per year.

- The only way we can slow down or stop global warming is to REUCE OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT!

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This page was last updated: May 18, 2011

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