Reducing your Carbon footprint By: Jeffrey Hargraves.

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Reducing your Carbon footprint By: Jeffrey Hargraves

What is a Carbon footprint? A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions by a company, organization, or individual.

How to reduce your footprint There are several ways you can reduce your carbon footprint. 1.In the home 2.In Transportation

At Home You can install Energy efficient doors, windows, and kitchen appliances Install energy saving siding Installation of solar panels or residential wind turbines

Transportation You can get a Flex fuel vehicle or a Hybrid Install fuel efficient parts into your current car

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