How To Cut Your Carbon Footprint is a terrific way to help the environment tremendously!

What Is A Carbon Footprint?

A carbon footprint is the measure of the amount of carbon dioxide that goes into the atmosphere as you continue your daily routine through the day. Almost everything you do affects your carbon footprint:

• Turning on a household appliance
• Driving your vehicle between work and home
• Buying groceries for your family
• Your family vacation to traveling by plane

Air travel accounts for about 3.5 percent of human contribution to global warming. There is good news though!

You can offset your carbon footprint, or even eliminate it, and save money with certain choices you make.

How Can You Cut Your Carbon Footprint?

Your car that you drive is one way you can cut your carbon footprint. When winter time comes do not use the heater as much as you normally would. Now this may mean dress warmer on those days you do not use the heater, but if you do you are making your environment that more healthy.

Other ways that you can cut your carbon footprint is also performing smaller changes:

• Reusing canvas shopping bags
• Taking shorter showers
• Walking or riding a bicycle for short trips around town

Electricity production is one of the BIGGEST sources for carbon emissions. The most inexpensive way to cut your carbon footprint down is efficiency.The average American is responsible for about 22 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each and every year. Would you have guessed that the world average of carbon emissions 6 tons per capita! Every American is contributing nearly 4 times the average!

Steps To Take At Home To Cut Your Carbon Footprint

Ways at home you can cut your carbon footprint are:

• Lowering your thermostat two degrees in the winter and raising your thermostat two degrees in the summer. The result for doing this will cut your carbon footprint by 2,000 pounds and you will save $98 per year.
• If you replaced only three light bulbs in your home with energy-efficient flourescent bulbs, you would save $60 dollars per year
• Weatherizing your home can save you hundreds of dollars and keep about 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere