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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Traveling by Air
Traveling by air was the biggest make up of my Carbon Footprint because my two sisters go to college in different states that are too far away to drive too. Visiting my sisters is very important to me because I don’t get to see them very often therefor not making it worth it to stop flying to reduce my Carbon Footprint. I do care deeply about reducing my Carbon Footprint so I make up for it in other areas such as public transportation.
Nice Athan!
Thats good that you are trying to reduce your carbon foot print as much as you can! I need to do that too.
I think its a nice idea and I'm glad you're going to reduce more.
It is good that you want to decrease you carbon footprint
In my opinion you use the plane for a reason which is very important and I think that's very nice that you are aware of your actions and you try to decrease your carbon footprint. According to the site http://www.apta.com/resources/reportsan … ochure.pdf "public transportation is reducing energy consumption and harmful CO2 greenhouse gas emissions that damage the environment.Traveling by public transportation uses less energy and produces less pollution than comparable travel in private vehicles. To make progress in reducing our dependence on foreign oil and impacting climate change, public transportation must be part of the solution." I think you can be pleased with yourself because the private vehicles, which you don't often use, is the largest Contributor to
a household’s Carbon Footprint.
If we analyze the current household emissions in typical two-car household we can see that private vehicles occupy the 55%, the electricity the 25% and the natural gas the 20%. If you take the public transportation you can save the 30% from eliminat ing one car.
The result will be:
- Potential saving: 30%
- Electricity: 20%
-Natural gas: 20%
-Private vehicles: 25%
If you want to know more about it, I suggest you to visit the website, which , in my opinion, is very interesting.
It is great that you're trying hard to reduce your carbon footprint. Until I started researching my carbon footprint I never new that air travel released used so much energy or released so many greenhouse gases. Now I will try to stop flying in planes as much as I do.