Hi my name is Amy and I live in the United States. I recently calculated my carbon footprint in my environmental science class and found out that my carbon footprint was 4,455 kg more than the average for my region, Florida. While my average per year for transportation, food and purchases was much lower than the average for Florida, my home was almost 3 times more than Florida’s average. During my research on how to reduce my home carbon footprint I came across an interesting website on a main contributor to the carbon footprint around the world. Kids Keep the Earth Cool.Org (http://www.kidskeeptheearthcool.org/funfacts.html) had some very interesting facts about eating meat and the meat industry. For instance, meat and the meat industry is the single largest contributor to global warming. I was unaware that eating meat affected areas such as the water supply and destruction of tropical forests.  For every pound of meat an individual doesn’t eat, 3,000 to 5,000 gallons of water are saved and pollution of streams and rivers are avoided better than any other single recycli ng effort.  My goal after reading all of this is to eat 6 fewer meat meals a month.  The amount of energy I will save will be equivalent to the amount of energy saved when switching from driving a sedan car to a hybrid vehicle!