Happy St Patrick’s Day to Everyone !

In honor of this historically green day, I decided to continue sharing ways to lower your Carbon Footprint on this beautiful planet. In Wikipedia, a Carbon Footprint is defined as:

“the total set of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product” (UK Carbon Trust 2008). An individual, nation or organization’s carbon footprint is measured by undertaking a GHG emissions assessment. Once the size of a carbon footprint is known, a strategy can be devised to reduce it.

Why would you want to reduce the size of your Carbon Footprint?

Lowering your carbon footprint, is believed to help reduce the affects of Global Warming. Although, there is much controvery about whether Global Warming is really taking place or not, I feel that is pretty much irrelevant to the issue of our carbon footprint.

My thoughts on that is, IT DOESN’T MATTER, either way. Because, the positive actions taken to reduce your carbon footprint and/or positively affect Global Warming, are all good things. Pulling less fuel resources from the planet, reducing electrical consumption, recycling, reducing & reusing, benefits you personally and the planet.

How do you determine what your Carbon Footprint is? There are several online calculators to help you calculate it. There’s one at American Forests website and it is very easy to navigate through. Then, set a goal of how much you’d like to reduce your footprint over the coming year. A realistic goal is 10 percent to start with.

How about sharing this information with some of your friends and having a Green Footprint Challenge? Feel free to post your results and your intended goal, to encourage others who read this post. Let’s work together to stay

GREEN….EVERYDAY !

NOTE: Remember that Earth Hour is only 11 days away.