What is a carbon footprint? Well, it's the total number of greenhouse gasses that we are creating by our actions. There are loads of causes for carbon emissions, including: transportation - in 2016, 28.5% of greenhouse gas emissions were from transportation - , generating electricity, agriculture (this is farming, growing crops and livestock for food and other products) and industrial things, where they're burning fossil fuels.
To find your carbon footprint, you could take this questionnaire: https://footprint.wwf.org.uk/#/, which is from WWF. If you are a child, you may need to ask your parents to answer some of the questions (like how you heat up your house, and what type of boiler you have).
How to reduce your carbon footprint:
(These are things I have mentioned and talked about in my past blogs)
- Drive less. You could tell yourself that if the walk is less than half an hour, then you should walk. You could also cycle, or go on public transport. And if you want to go even further, you can buy an electric car, since they emit less greenhouse gasses.
- Eat less meat. I said this a few weeks ago, in my Being Vegetarian, Vegan or Pescatarian blog. A vegan diet would be the best, since if you replace red meat (or beef, which gives off more than six pounds of carbon dioxide per serving) with dairy, your carbon footprint might just stay the same.
- Waste less. Make sure you don't make to much of a meal if it means you won't eat it all. Just adapt your recipe to fit the amount you need. Of course, you could eat the leftovers the next day or - if you're able to - freeze it until later.
- Recycle. Just recycle or reuse anything you can! Look to see what your neighbourhood recycles and what they don't, since different councils may recycle different things
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