In my opinion, transportation is really something you cannot control. If you live far away and you cannot carpool, or there is no local transportation near you, there is nothing you can actually do about it. I know a lot of people love to travel around the world, and we cannot blame those people for wanting to do that. Transportation is a harder topic to talk about because its different for each person. Some people carpool everyday or take public transportation everyday, while some people just aren't comfortable with that. Although transportation is a huge contributing factor to the Carbon Dioxide present in our atmosphere, it is something that is very hard to avoid doing.

I agree with your statement. Transportation is a factor in almost all of our lives. When we need to get somewhere, especially in a hurry, we turn to our cars, buses, or trains, and we can't help that. Especially for the people that commute to work or school every day. I, myself am a commuter and I go across the Bay every morning to get to school. Without transportaion, I wouldn't be able to go many places.

I agree with this post. There are many things that can prevent people from using things like the bus or bart. In many rural towns, there is little public transportation. This can cause people to drive everywhere individually, causing more carbon dioxide. In some cases, people are afraid or uncomfortable with the thought of carpooling or bussing. Either way, instituting some kind of accessible public transportation would be extremely helpful towards our carbon footprint. Through my own experiences, there are always people utilizing the local bus or train and I feel that if we spread our system for transportation elsewhere, it could help reduce everyone’s emissions.

I agree with all of these statements! Coming from a personal experience transportation is a very big deal for my family. I have lived in Vallejo for all of my life and going to school in Oakland and having practice in Redwood City has definitely changed myself and my parents lifestyle. Transportation is a very big deal because not many buses nor trains run through Vallejo. My Carbon Footprint was exceptionally high because of my transportation and ever since then I have tried my hardest to reduce it. Riding a bike to school is not very ideal and I don't have many options but hopefully I can reduce my Footprint another way. Any suggestions?

I understand how its quite challenging as well, and I've gone through what your going through. The best suggestion I can give you, is to try and carpool. I carpool once in a while with my friends and it's actually quite efficient!

I also agree with this post. Transportation seems to be the highest emission of CO2 in the atmosphere. I have been traveing very often, but I learned that on average a plane emits 1,000 kg/km of CO2. I want to reduce my CO2 levels in different areas to try and compensate for the traveling. Any suggestions that could greatly reduce my CO2 emission?

This post has brought a new perspective into my view on carbon footprints. I personally do not take a lot of transport and it did not have a huge imprint on my carbon footprint, when I saw other people having higher than average transportations footprints I was very surprised. This post shows me, however, that transportation is a necessary part of life. Overall I think this was a very informative post that definitely helped me see a new perspective in everyones carbon footprints.

I like this view on transportation. I believe it is a very tricky subject, especially because of how you said that everyone is different. Personally, my family goes on big trips all the time, thus making me a big contributor to the CO2 in the world. I thought that this post was really good because of how you said that some ways of transportation are necessary, and some are out of comfort, but that it is hard to improve upon.

I would agree with all of these statements. Transportation is the hardest thing to limit because it is done so often and it is heavily relied upon in the modern world. However, vacations are optional and are not a part of everyday life for most people. If you had to travel, go by plane because they are more fuel efficient than cars.
  [140715_JUI_AirplanePollutionChart](//muut.com/u/footprint/s1/:footprint:AlXh:140715_jui_airplanepollutionchart.png.crop.originaloriginal.png.jpg)