User:Lindseywiesen/Carbon footprint
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Options to reduce the carbon footprint of humans include Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Refuse. This can be done by using reusable items such as thermoses for daily coffee or plastic containers for water and other cold beverages rather than disposable ones. If that option isn't available, it is best to properly recycle the disposable items after use.[1][unreliable source?]
Another option for reducing the carbon footprint of humans is to use less air conditioning and heating in the home. By adding insulation to the walls and attic of one's home, and installing weather stripping, or caulking around doors and windows one can lower their heating costs more than 25 percent.[citation needed] Similarly, one can very inexpensively upgrade the "insulation" (clothing) worn by residents of the home.[2] For example, it's estimated that wearing a base layer of long underwear with top and bottom, made from a lightweight, super-insulating fabric like microfleece, can conserve as much body heat as a full set of clothing, allowing a person to remain warm with the thermostat lowered by over 5 °C.[2][3] These measures all help because they reduce the amount of energy needed to heat and cool the house. One can also turn down the heat while sleeping at night or away during the day, and keep temperatures moderate at all times. Setting the thermostat just 2 degrees lower in winter and higher in summer could save about 1 ton of carbon dioxide each year.[1][unreliable source?]
The carbon handprint movement emphasizes individual forms of carbon offsetting, like using more public transportation or planting trees in deforested regions, to reduce one's carbon footprint and increase their "handprint."[4][5]
Ways to reduce industry's carbon footprint[edit]
The most powerful industrial climate actions are:[6] refrigerant management (90 billion tonnes of CO2e 2017–2050,[7] since refrigerants have thousands of times the warming potential of CO2); land-based wind turbines for electricity (85 billion); reduced food waste (71 billion); and restoring tropical forests by ending use of the land for other purposes (61 billion). They calculate benefits cumulatively to 2050, rather than annually, because industrial actions have long lead times.[8]
A product, service, or company's carbon footprint can be affected by several factors including, but not limited to:
- Energy sources
- Offsite electricity generation
- Materials
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- ^ a b Larry West. "Personal Steps You Can Take to Fight Global Warming". About.com News & Issues. Archived from the original on 11 December 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
- ^ a b "Dressed Not to Chill". Enlighten Up! with The Aquarian. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ "LOW-TECH MAGAZINE". lowtechmagazine.com. Archived from the original on 30 September 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
- ^ Daniel Goleman (2012-03-12). "Handprints, Not Footprints". Time. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
- ^ Jones, Christopher M.; Kammen, Daniel M. (March 2011). "Quantifying Carbon Footprint Reduction Opportunities for U.S. Households and Communities". Environ. Sci. Technol. 45 (9): 4088–4095. Bibcode:2011EnST...45.4088J. doi:10.1021/es102221h. PMID 21449584.
- ^ "Solutions". Drawdown. 2017-02-07. Archived from the original on 17 December 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
- ^ 90 billion estimate from Project Drawdown, 98 billion estimate fromShah, Nihar; Wei, Max; Letschert, Virginie; Phadke, Amol (2015-10-01). Benefits of Leapfrogging to Superefficiency and Low Global Warming Potential Refrigerants in Room Air Conditioning (Report). Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). OSTI 1397235.
- ^ Hua, Guowei; Cheng, T. C. E.; Wang, Shouyang (2011-08-01). "Managing carbon footprints in inventory management". International Journal of Production Economics. 132 (2): 178–185. doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2011.03.024. hdl:10397/9148. ISSN 0925-5273. Archived from the original on 20 November 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2020.