What's the best way to reduce my carbon footprint?

There are several helpful ways to help reduce your carbon footprint! Here are the ones I like the best, and they seem to be the easiest to do as well! Collect and conserve rain water in a barrel to water your lawn and plants.

Carpool as much as possible, take mass transit or walk to your destination whenever possible. Turn off any unnecessary lights, and replace all regular bulbs with compact florescent (CFL) bulbs. Boil water in the microwave whenever possible.

Those are small things that you can do to help the environment, but it all ads up. If you think about it, if everyone does one small thing to help conserve or lower our carbon footprints, the world would already start to be a much better and healthier place!

I think simply reducing your carbon footprint by limiting consumption and waste should come secondary to taking a pro-active approach in improvement of land use, developoing higher and more effecient technology, improving recycling methods and creating new fuel sources. You could always take the true environmentalist approach. Since humans are supposedly ruining the planet and are responsible for the carbon footprint altogether, wouldn't the reduction of human population and procreation greatly reduce the carbon footprint?

Therefore, the best way to reduce your carbon footprint is to not have children, since you child(ren) will possibly consume equal to or more than you. It makes environmentalism seem somewhat anti-human doesn't it?

The number 1 way to reduce your carbon footprint: Consume less. Buy a used bike use it for transportation, carpool, bring reusable bags to grocery stores, select items with minimal packaging/buy in bulk. Use sites like freecycle.

Buy used items when possible. Take a close look at my tips, the good news is they also help your wallet.

The Number! Way to recude your carbon footprint is to walk quit drive your car for this is the biggest pollution maker you use daily..

Quit mowing your grass. Plants use carbon the way humans use oxygen. Plants create oxygen when they use carbon.So long as there are enough plants around, your carbon footprint is negligible.

Oh, and don't support the airline industry or fly around in a private jet.

If it's yellow let it mellow. If it's brown flush it down. :-) Also, Google "family cloth.

Cherise really nailed it on the head with her answer about carbon and plants. If you enjoy a fresh cut grass then your out of luck, and even if you don't the city (assuming you live in one) will probably make you mow it anyways. SO the easiest way to control your contribution to the "carbon footprint" is to know what you buy on a day to day basis.

The most important factor you should know about everyday items is where they are coming from. If you buy out of season cellophane wrapped vegetables from the grocery store they are coming from out of state, this means alot of energy is wasted getting these to you. If you increase the amount of local or near local products you buy and encourage others to do so you can really impact the amount of carbon and other nasty consequences of burning energy in your area.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.