I also did the carbon footprint challenge and I noticed that most of my footprint came from my travel. I only took four flights this year and it caused a lot of carbon dioxide to be released into the air. Without all this travel I would still have a rating of 9,000. Most of this is due to the fact that my family enjoys burning wood instead of just using our heating system.
    Since I have done the challenge I have been trying to improve my footprint by turning off any lights that I don’t need on, and not burning any wood for a month. When I do try to make a difference I can  and it is actually pretty easy to think about the small things we could do to lower our carbon footprint. Though some things are harder to stop like where we travel and how to stop the planes from polluting so much.
    It was interesting to see the things that we did that could help stop the pollution. In California we really need to stop the pollution because we have one of the highest ratings in the country and only we can stop it.

Garrett, I completely agree. Flying less can reduce carbon emissions by a mere 3.5%. But airplanes produce a dangerous version of emissions. Airplanes operate on petroleum fuel, which means they make large amounts of carbon dioxide when they fly. Air travel is currently responsible for a relatively tiny part of the global carbon footprint — a mere 3.5% of total greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But jet emissions may produce an additional warming effect, while the explosive growth in air travel makes it one of the fastest-growing sources of carbon gases in the atmosphere. And unlike automobiles, where there are alternate, energy saving products, even if they have yet to be widely adopted, there is no low-carbon way to fly, and there likely won't be for decades.