Are there aspects of your daily life that you know contribute to your carbon footprint but you are unwilling to compromise to change them? In other words, what about your life is “off the table” when it comes to carbon emissions? It's OK to admit it- we all have these cherished behaviors!
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Transportation: Can it be Decreased?
When I calculated my carbon footprint online, I noticed that the transportation section was a lot larger than I had wanted it to be. I started thinking about things I could do to reduce the amount of transportation in my life that harms the environment. For me personally, It would be quite hard to reduce my amount if the time in the car. This is because I live pretty far from my school. Many if the other girls who go to my school live a lot farther than I do. It can take hours for them to get to school. Also, I do extracurricular activities that require extra travel on top of the distance I have to travel to school each day. I carpool each day after school, so this decreases my carbon footprint a little bit. It would be very hard for me to reduce my carbon footprint when it comes to the amount of car travel I do on a daily basis. Does anybody else struggle with transportation affecting their carbon footprint? What do you all do to decrease your transportation?
Hi I am Paulina!
Also when I calculate my carbon footprint, I was surprise too, one of the things that I start to do is to try to use more carpool, or ask to familiars, or cousins if they are going to go away to give me a lift.
I try to convince to other fiends that is better to go at the school at the nearest of their homes, I hope it can help a little to these.
Hi Emma.
Sometimes we have to accept the fact that we can't really do anything about a problem. If you need to cover long distances, to this day, the only way to archive your goal is (like you do) driving a car.
Carpool may be a solution, but (as the noun says) it still requires a car. Of course you could buy an efficient car or, even better, an electric car: but we all know that money doesn't grow on threes!
Because I, for one, believe that there's no solution to your problem, I'm not going to help in your specific case. But, in general, I can tell you what I did and still do to (indirectly) reduce my carbon footprint.
For instance, a year ago I bought an electric bike for my daily home-to-school travel: just two years ago the same distance was traveled by car! When it rains I take public transports: of course, you can imagine that the home-school distance is pretty small (actually it's about 10km).
This is why I think public transports should develop more and be more efficient because, if not, nobody will use them!