Now that we see what our collective and personal impact is on the planet, let's think big!
What big and bold ideas do you have for reducing personal, community, country and even global carbon footprints?
Use this space to develop and discuss your big ideas! Who knows- maybe one of these ideas can be the next key solution to the global climate challenge!
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Farming
To reduce personal, community, country and global carbon footprints, farming your own livestock and having your own gardens can be key. Being able to produce your own food will take down the transportation carbon footprint of driving the food here and driving to pick it up. Another thing we can do is to have community gardens, and let people have gardens and chickens in their yards, or even a chicken cooperative.
I totally agree, Nora! The funny thing is that the world that you envision -people growing their own food locally- is the way everyone on this planet used to eat! It's funny that getting back to our original ways of living can be seen as a radical concept! 
I think this is a great idea, and cities should be moving towards these forms of food production. However, usually community and home gardens will not yield enough food to feed a family, especially in urban cities. Subsequently, the amount of space required to feed a whole family would most likely not be possible with the size of a common household yard. This is because of how populated some parts of the world are, leaving little space for personal gardens and community gardens. I believe, on top of adding gardens to cities, the reduction and hopefully elimination of meat consumption would greatly benefit the decrease of a global carbon footprint.
I agree, but I wonder about space. Our cities are already very crowded and I don't know if their is enough room for lots of people to have their own farms. After doing some research I concluded that it takes about one acre to feed a person a year. This does not take into account animals, which require much more land. It focuses more on the average American diet and crops. If you wanted to add food to the diet than it would take approximately 0.45 hectares, a little over a mile. Now, I do think this would greatly reduce carbon emissions, but it would be difficult to pull off. Community gardens however, would be much better to implement now because they take up less space and provide for many people.