1. Carbon Footprint

2. What's a carbon footprint ?
A measure of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a person, organization, or location at a given time .

3. Reducing Carbon Footprints
*Turn off the lights *Don’t purchase bottled water *Eat less meat
*Take shorter showers
*Don’t fly first-class
*Drive less.
*Use reusable bags when shopping

5. Food Has A Carbon Footprint?
*Food systems produce carbon emissions
due to use of fossil fuels
*Food Carbon Footprint is part of the
total carbon footprint of an individual,
organization, and/or country
* Food choices are changing globally and
impacting total carbon footprints

6. What Makes Your Carbon Footprint Grow?
*Air travel accounts for about 3.5 percent of the human contribution to global warming.
*Washing your clothing and textiles makes up 14.5 percent of your Carbon Footprint.
*The food and drinks that you choose everyday make up 5 percent of your Carbon Footprint
*Driving your car to and from everyday makes up for 15 percent.

7. How Plants Help
*By planting a tree you can help reduce your own carbon footprint. It helps because the tree takes some of the CO2 out of the air and makes it into oxygen.
*Plants can also help by being used to make “bio-fuel”.

8. Bio-Fuel *They take that matter and create fuel out of it.
*Bio-Fuel is made by any earth matter like trees, plants, dirt, or mulch.
*They take that matter and create fuel out of it.
*That fuel could help us eliminate our uses of oil/gas.
*It helps us get rid of most of the gases that are produced.

9. Carbon Footprints Hurting The Earth
*The environment is getting damaged by all the green house gases.
*All of our actions are continuing to hurt the earth and all the creatures living on it.
*These animals are loosing there homes from our Carbon Footprint.

10. By: Marissa, Mary, Ali, and Jeffery