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This is how we live. The total amount of greenhouse gases that are emitted by an individual, event, or factory. Carbon Footprint   Pinpointing emissions.

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2 This is how we live.

3 The total amount of greenhouse gases that are emitted by an individual, event, or factory. Carbon Footprint   Pinpointing emissions  Numerous Variables  Misleading numbers  marketing  “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”

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5 Direct Emissions Heating  natural gases Lighting  electricity Gasoline  cars/trucks CO2  35 tons/household CONSUMERS CHOICE.

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7 How Green is your Orange? PepsiCo owns Tropicana How green is Tropicana? Nitrogen fertilizer produces the most CO2 emission After being picked, trucked, squeezed, and shipped… 1/3 of the emissions is from growing the oranges Advertising carbon footprint

8 Carbon Trust Warns PepsiCo.

9 Their Solution…

10 …using the power of the sun. 5-acre solar field concentrator absorbing 54,000 square feet of sunlight  192 solar collectors generate steam to help cook the oil used to make SunChips Significantly reducing GHG and use of natural gas SunChips  solar-powered newspaper ads  solar-powered billboard  use renewable materials in packaging

11 Prioritize Reduce Carbon Footprint Make goals for future EDUCATE YOURSELF Be Water wary Power-save appliances Reduce, Reuse, Recycle What they’re doing… Discarded orange peels  cattle feed (preventing 700,000 tons of waste) Tech. improvements: manufacturing, resource conservation Reduced packaging by 6 mill. kG=reducing GHG by 18,000 tons New plastic bottles  20% less plastic, labels 10% smaller Landfill gas  renewable resource

12 Works Cited "Carbon Footprint - What Is A Carbon Footprint?." Carbon Footprint - Home of Carbon Management. 1 June 2009. "Carbon Footprint." Carbon Footprint. 27 May 2009. "Carbon footprint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 1 June 2009. " PepsiCo Corporate Site | PepsiCo.com." PepsiCo Corporate Site | PepsiCo.com. 1 June 2009. Created at www.bibme.org


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