Carbon Footprint

1. Anna Said,

   It’s how much energy we use.
   Carbon footprints:
   A carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide that one person creates and uses with all the things he or she does.

   It is how much damage on the environment that something has. The carbon footprint for a bottle of water would add up the negative environmental impact of manufacturing plastic bottles and truck emissions for delivering the water. Your house would have a carbon footprint.

   Reducing carbon footprints: You could lower the carbon footprint of your house by doing things like using CFL lighting and energy efficient appliances, and adding insulation. There are websites that help you determine carbon footprints

   Carbon is a significant contributer to global warming through the greenhouse effect.

   A person’s carbon footprint is defined by looking at how much of what they do in their lives contributes even a small amount to global warming. Such things include recycling, driving where it is possible to walk and not switching off house lights. We can reduce our carbon footprint by being more ecologically friendly.

   A:
   An ecological or carbon footprint measures how much of the planet’s resources you use, and converts this to the amount of land needed to provide the resources and assimilate your waste. It is measured in global hectares (a hectare is about the size of a soccer field). It includes:

   •The amount of building materials you use in your home and workplace
   •The amount of water you use in your home, workplace and garden
   •The fossil fuels (oil, coal, wood and natural gas) needed
   •to provide the power to run your home and workplace
   •to bring your food from all over the world
   •to power your vehicles and transport
   •to carry away and dispose of your waste.

   A recent study (October 2008) ranks the top ten countries with the highest ecological footprint per head as:
   1.United Arab Emirates
   2.United States
   3.Kuwait
   4.Denmark
   5.Australia
   6.New Zealand
   7.Canada
   8.Norway
   9.Estonia
   10.Ireland

   Hope that helps :).

2. Al Said,

   According to Wikipedia:

   "A carbon footprint is "the total set of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by an organization, event or product". For simplicity of reporting, it is often expressed in terms of the amount of carbon dioxide, or its equivalent of other GHGs, emitted."

3. Fay B Said,

   A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc.

   The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse gases we individually produce and has units of tonnes (or kg) of carbon dioxide equivalent.

   A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc.

   The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse gases we individually produce and has units of tonnes (or kg) of carbon dioxide equivalent.

   The pie chart above shows the main elements which
   make up the total of an typical person’s carbon footprint in the developed world.

   A carbon footprint is made up of the sum of two parts, the primary footprint (shown by the green slices of the pie chart) and the secondary footprint (shown as the yellow slices).

   1. The primary footprint is a measure of our direct emissions of CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels including domestic energy consumption and transportation (e.g. car and plane). We have direct control of these.

   2. The secondary footprint is a measure of the indirect CO2 emissions from the whole lifecycle of products we use - those associated with their manufacture and eventual breakdown. To put it very simply – the more we buy the more emissions will be caused on our behalf.

4. Einstein Said,

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint

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