1. Carbon Footprints

2. What is a Carbon footprint?
Amount of carbon/greenhouse gas emissions  produced in daily life by an individual, a household, a building or a company.
Carbon footprint traps heat within the atmosphere which could have a serious impact on the global climate by raising global temperatures

4. How Carbon Footprints Work
Carbon footprints measure how much carbon dioxide (CO2) we produce just by going about our daily lives.
When fossil fuels burn, they emit greenhouse gases like CO2 that contribute to global warming.
Ninety-eight percent of atmospheric CO2 comes from the combustion of fossil fuels

5. Carbon footprint of items
Leaving the lights on
A forest fire
A Burger
A bottle of water
2.5 acres of deforestation
Using a cell phone
A computer
International flight
A pint of beer
Cycling a mile
Manufacturing a car
A web search
Walking through the door
A banana
Spending 1$
Road trip
10 lbs of trash

6. Carbon Footprint – 3 Scopes
Scope 1: Direct Emissions
Scope 2: Indirect Emissions (Purchased energy)
Scope 3: Other Indirect Emissions
Remember: there are three levels (scopes) to a green house gas/carbon footprint calculation.

7. Scope 1: Direct Emissions
Relatively easy:
Combustion Sources
Site owned vehicles
On site electrical generation
CFC and HFC losses from refrigeration equipment
Sulfur hexafluoride losses from electrical equipment

8. Scope 2: Indirect Emissions – Purchased Energy
Relatively easy:
Emissions from consumption of purchased utilities:
Typically electricity
Could be steam or high temperature hot water
Could be negative (ex: electricity from landfill gas)
June 2, 2009

9. Scope 3: Other Indirect Emissions
Can be very difficult:
Transportation of purchased material or goods
Employee business travel
Employee commuting impacts
Outsourced work
Emissions from finished products
Transportation of waste
Vegetation & Trees
Scope 3 has various challenges
Boundary issues
Can be a magnitude higher than Scope 1 and 2
Costly value chain analysis

10. Global Warming
An increase in the Earths temperature has been observed during the past decades, believed to be due to increase of Carbon dioxide (CO2)

11. Carbon foot prints resulting in - Global Warming
Catastrophe
changes in rainfall patterns (more rain in some places, less rain in others)
Higher temperature on land
melting of ice worldwide which could result in a rise in sea levels.
Severe weather conditions,
Sea level increase,
Health effect,
Change in agricultural pattern,

12. Context for numbers
1 gram of CO2e would be produced if you burned a pea sized blob of gasoline
1 Kilogram (2 lbs) of CO2e would be produced if you burned 2 cups of gasoline
1 Ton of CO2e would be produced if you burned 60 gallons of gasoline

13. Let’s determine your Carbon FootPrint
 The smaller your footprint, the better!

14. Ways to reduce carbon footprints

15. Reducing Carbon footprints
Get active, Hear it share it
Know what damage you're doing and get to be an expert!
Why drive when you can walk?
Make your own climate!
Turn the heating down in winter. If you're cold, wear more clothes!
Turn the air conditioning down in summer or use a fan.

16. Reducing Carbon footprints
Shop locally by affecting to reduce goods
import
 Travelling light
Get your parents to change their driving habits... and their car.
Solar energy is free
Eating: Learn to grow and cook!
Decrease using processed food, help reducing your carbon foot print

17. Take the environment challenges! To make a difference
Reduce Waste
Reduce Energy Use
Increase Biodiversity
Reduce Car Travel
Reduce Water Use
Increase Gardening
How to protect biodiversity in your schoolyard and environs
Protecting and restoring native vegetation, invertebrates and animals in your school environment will help to maintain healthy soil, water and air.

18. Reducing Carbon footprints
Reduce, reuse, recycle:
Turn off and shut it!
Using renewable energy sources such as solar power, hydropower and wind energy can reduce our carbon footprint. 
If you don't buy so much stuff in the first place, then you don't need to reuse or recycle it. Reuse whatever you can (like plastic supermarket bags). If you can't reuse something, Recycle it!

19. Recycling
Recycling common goods such as aluminum cans, glass bottles, plastic bottles and paper reduces greenhouse gas emissions and consumes less energy by cutting down on the amount of manufacturing required to create an object from raw materials. Reusing and recycling products reduces carbon footprint.

20. Methods of Reduction Unplugging appliances when not using them
turning out lights when you leave the room
taking a bus, train or plane instead of a car
carpooling with other families and using bicycles when possible are some other methods of reducing carbon footprint
to plant trees wherever possible since trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen into the atmosphere

21. Reduce Carbon footprints with renewable energy sources
Using renewable energy sources such as solar power, hydropower and wind energy can reduce our carbon footprint. 

22. Alternate Energy Any form of energy that does not
come from fossil fuels.
Alternative energy sources produce energy without the damaging or harmful by-products common when burning fossil fuels
Alternative energy sources are renewable and are thought to be "free" energy sources.

23. Sources of Alternative energy
Tidal Energy
Wind Energy
Geo thermal Energy
Solar Energy

24. Sources of Alternative energy
Bio Fuel Energy
Nuclear Energy
Hydro electric Energy

25. Alternative Energy is the future of energy
Alternative energy is clean, sustainable and better for our national security