Easy Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Your carbon footprint is the amount of greenhouse gases—including carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, fluorinated gases and others—that you produce as you live your life.
The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project determined that in order to hold the global temperature rise to 2˚C or less, everyone on earth will need to average an annual carbon footprint of 1.87 tons by 2050.
Currently, the average U.S. per capita carbon footprint is 18.3 tons.
By comparison, China’s per capita carbon emissions are 8.2 tons. We all have a ways to go to get to 1.87 tons.
Calculate your carbon footprint at carbonfootprint.com to find out how you’re doing. The EPA’s carbon footprint calculator can show how much carbon and money you will save by taking some of these steps.
https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2018/12/27/35-ways-reduce-carbon-footprint/
Eat low on the food chain.
Choose organic and local foods that are in season
Buy foodstuffs in bulk
Wash your clothing in cold water.
Bring your own reusable bag when you shop.
Try to avoid items with excess packaging.
Change incandescent light bulbs (which waste 90 percent of their energy as heat) to light emitting diodes (LEDs).
Etc, etc.
Carbon offsets
A carbon offset is an amount of money you can pay for a project that reduces greenhouse gases somewhere else. If you offset one ton of carbon, the offset will help capture or destroy one ton of greenhouse gases that would otherwise have been released into the atmosphere. Offsets also promote sustainable development and increase the use of renewable energy.
https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2018/12/27/35-ways-reduce-carbon-footprint/
