How can i reduce my carbon footprint?

Question

I am getting rid of my car in September in favour of the bus..need it until then tho.

What else can i do?

Answer 1

wow... a lot of hostility from the other guys. You don't have to live in a hut or not eat meat to reduce your carbon prints. This summer, if you keep your ac at 72 degrees rather than 70 or so, you can reduce pollution by a fair amount. Taking slightly cooler showers will help to. I wouldn't suggest recycling, that doesn't help anything (trust me). Basically, anything using energy in some way or another will produce co2. So naturally, using less will help. If you really want to get into green living, you might want to invest in solar panels and a windmill. Search the net man, i think it would be impossible to not find ways to help the environment.

Answer 2

walk run ride a bike sail a boat train bus rickshaw ride a horse donkey mule row a skiff well u did ask. popa

Answer 3

All of the above answers but what ever you do don't f**t, methane gas is one of the worst contributors to global warming

Answer 4

dont use as much energy

Answer 5

What a load of c**p this carbon footprint thing is. It's amazing how many gullible sponges have fallen for it. In my view it's merely a variation on the Armageddon theme. If you feel you must comply with our Masters orders then do so.

I shall carry on my life in the same old way, polluting all the more because I know people like you are making space for people like me. (Actually I drive a 119 Co2 car, for cheap tax, not because I believe I can make difference).

Answer 6

turning off the light

Answer 7

Honestly, I'm getting sick of the "do-gooders" - as I call them - blabbering on about carbon footprints and global warming.  It has got to the stage now, where, the world over, global warming is deemed as "scientific fact", and students are being brainwashed with this nonsense.

The fact is that the Earth goes through natural cyclical changes in temperature.  It has been a lot hotter in the past than what it is now.  The way I see it is this: if the ice-age was beginning now, then politicians, greenpeace et al. would be blaming it on mankind.  I don't know how they'd manage to pin it on us but they'd manage it somehow. AND! . . . here's the clincher - the politicians would find it as an excuse to increase taxes on transportation, etc.

People need to start thinking "outside the box", and to start questioning why politicians would want you to believe the lies that they perpetuate! Do not fall for it!

And I have to add something else: even if the global warming theory was actually true - which it isn't - who actually cares? I mean, we're not going to be around to experience getting burned alive by the sun or dying of thirst, are we?  And all we'd be doing, by reducing our carbon footprints, is delaying the inevitable.  When all's said and done, we are but an insignificant speck in the Universe, and are, as such, expendable and unimportant.

Answer 8

I hate the expression "carbon footprint" because it sounds so much nicer than "pollution".

Don't use a computer.

Don't buy anything which is packaged (especially plastic).

Use candles instead of lights where possible.

Don't eat meat.

Oh and remember that all you are doing is making sure that China will produce so much CO2 that even shutiing down the whole of Britain would hardly make a dent in the worldwide CO2 emissions.

Probably the best thing to do is make people start planting as many trees as possible.

Answer 9

renewable energy, recycle, dont waist food ect

Answer 10

That's great! :D uum you could use energy saving lightbulbs, don't leave tvs or computers on standby...switch off lights as you leave the room...double glazing so that you don't need to use electric fires in winter...thats about all I can think of...good luck :D

Answer 11

never leave lights on unless your in the room or having to go from A to B don't have your heating on so high wear a jumper when cooking cut your food up smaller  so takes less time to cook reuse shopping bag or buy cloth ones walk instead of drive unless of course you have no choose your be healthier buy mostly fresh food instead of package recycle paper glass plastic use rechargeable batteries not only will you be doing your bit for the environment but also saving money

Answer 12

stop shopping - every time you go to spend money, think 'do i really need this?' and you'll find that most of the time you don't - it is consumerism that is killing this planet

Answer 13

Amazing that people can still think that global warming is not happening. They must be spending too much time in front of computers and not reading enough about the problems global warming has ALREADY caused on the planet.

Some of the ways of preventing (or reducing) global warming would be...

Save energy at home (turn off lights, care with air conditioning, do not leave things on stand-by, use low energy bulbs)

Drive less, share transport, use public transport.

Take local holidays rather than flying long trips.

Buy less stuff... it all takes energy to produce.

Buy green electricity (wind, solar, wave, nuclear, hydro)

Do not use those outdoor gas heaters for the BBQ

Buy a smaller, greener car, preferable a hybrid.

Use your bike

Buy a windup radio and save on batteries.

Grow vegetables in your own garden.

Become a vegetarian (meat causes a lot of global warming, especially beef).

Answer 14

well you could stop breathing, and live in a tent made of twigs and leaves. eat roadkill. cold.

sounds like fun doesn't it.

then you would have to be naked all the time (no fires in the winter)

and then it may be worth swimming to china and wasting your breath trying to convince the so called developing world to cut their carbon emissions.

because without us all doing our bit you are wasting your time.

i wish you the best of luck.

Answer 15

reduce, re-use, recylce your waste, invest in a compost bin, maybe grow a few veg or herbs, have short showers not baths, look at where your food comes from has it been flown in, take local holidays, handwash your car, use ecological cleaners, use your microwave as much as possible when cooking its more economical than and oven,  look at the enegy efficeincy of your home, never leave items on stand by, by A grade appliances when you need to replace white goods, use a save a flush bag in your toilet sistern, umm there is probably alot more.

If that all sounds to much to do all at once, just pick a few off the list that you know you will be able to do and then add more once you have used to doing them.

Answer 16

Another sucker. Why don't all these eco warriors all do the decent thing and completely illiminate their carbon footprints by simply throwing themselves into the sea. You can't get a lower carbon fotprint than that.