By:Silvana Giovannone

• 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 transportation, electricity, heating, ect.

• Most electronics have a standby mode that uses energy even when not in use.

• Unplug cell phone chargers, laptops, stereos, televisions, ect.

• Try using a power strip for all these items so you just have to flick a switch, and its all off.

• For office use; Bring in a glass or mug and stop using disposable cups.

• Power down everything before leaving.

• Try and carpool if possible, or take public transportation if its available.

• Consider saving files on a flash drive instead of printing everything.

• Only use the appropriate amount of lighting.

• Bring a lunch or walk to get lunch instead of driving to go get lunch.

• Shut off lights in unused rooms, or get your building to install occupancy sensors.

• Reduce- Avoid using excessive packaging. You will have to throw it away at your home garbage and then it will just take up more space at land fills.

• Reuse- Try and re-use products as many times as possible. Often people will only use a product once even though it could be used many more times

• Recycle- uses less energy and produces less solution rather than making things from scratch.

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