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Carbon Footprint

carbon footprint

A carbon footprint is an estimate of how much carbon dioxide is produced to support your lifestyle. Essentially, it measures your impact on the climate based on how much carbon dioxide you produce. Factors that contribute to your carbon footprint include your travel methods and general home energy usage. Carbon footprints can also be applied on a larger scale, to companies, businesses, even countries.

The national average for someone in the US is 7.5 tons of carbon dioxide emitted per year. Start by calculating your own carbon footprint using an online calculator and think of ways you can modify your lifestyle to reduce it. Even better, try to offset your carbon footprint if you can! Individuals and businesses can help offset their carbon dioxide production by buying carbon offsets or planting trees to balance the carbon dioxide emissions.

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cradle to cradle

Cradle-to-Cradle

The cradle-to-cradle approach to design was developed by William McDonough, a notable architect in sustainable buildings, and chemist Michael Braungart in 2002. It is a method used to minimize the environmental impact of products by employing sustainable production, operation, and disposal practices and aims to incorporate social responsibility into product development. Under the cradle-to-cradle philosophy,…

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carbon footprint

Carbon Footprint

A carbon footprint is an estimate of how much carbon dioxide is produced to support your lifestyle. Essentially, it measures your impact on the climate based on how much carbon dioxide you produce. Factors that contribute to your carbon footprint include your travel methods and general home energy usage. Carbon footprints can also be applied…

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Cap and trade

Cap and Trade

Cap and trade is one method for regulating and ultimately reducing the amount of pollution emitted into the atmosphere. It is viewed as a more democratic solution to regulating pollution than a carbon tax as it creates a commodity out of the right to emit carbon and allows the commodity to be traded on the…

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