CARBON FOOTPRINT
The carbon footprint is the measurement for the impact that the human activities have on the earth. It’s mostly the measurement of the carbon dioxide.
We could measure our carbon footprint from two sites, and we took the average from the both sites. The first site - http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/ - I got 4.49. The questions were classified in four categories food, travel, home and stuff. In the second site - http://www.myfootprint.org/ – I got 6.71 .The questions were first about your home and your family, then about what do you do to save energy, and about your food. The average I got was 5.6, so if everyone in the world uses as much as me so they need five planets and a half.
My classmates: some of them got lower than me and some got more than me, the ones less than I got 3.53 and the one are more than me got 6.1 and 9.17. The UAE is considered one of the highest rates of energy consumption per person in the world, if not the highest.
So we have to do something to save the energy and to reduce our carbon footprint especially in the UAE. We can adjust the AC and turn it back up a few degrees and turn it off when you leave home. You will save money and you will make your footprint less. You can use energy saving light bulbs, it’s more efficient and it lasts 10 times longer. So you will reduce your footprint and save your money also so every time you are going out you turn everything off and try to make your carbon footprint smaller and smaller.
The carbon footprint is the measurement for the impact that the human activities have on the earth. It’s mostly the measurement of the carbon dioxide.
We could measure our carbon footprint from two sites, and we took the average from the both sites. The first site - http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/ - I got 4.49. The questions were classified in four categories food, travel, home and stuff. In the second site - http://www.myfootprint.org/ – I got 6.71 .The questions were first about your home and your family, then about what do you do to save energy, and about your food. The average I got was 5.6, so if everyone in the world uses as much as me so they need five planets and a half.
My classmates: some of them got lower than me and some got more than me, the ones less than I got 3.53 and the one are more than me got 6.1 and 9.17. The UAE is considered one of the highest rates of energy consumption per person in the world, if not the highest.
So we have to do something to save the energy and to reduce our carbon footprint especially in the UAE. We can adjust the AC and turn it back up a few degrees and turn it off when you leave home. You will save money and you will make your footprint less. You can use energy saving light bulbs, it’s more efficient and it lasts 10 times longer. So you will reduce your footprint and save your money also so every time you are going out you turn everything off and try to make your carbon footprint smaller and smaller.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
· Foot Print Calculator. 8 Apr. 2009.
· Heroes of The UAE. 8 Apr. 2009.
· Ecological Footprint Quiz. 8 Apr. 2009.
· Foot Print Calculator. 8 Apr. 2009
· Heroes of The UAE. 8 Apr. 2009
· Ecological Footprint Quiz. 8 Apr. 2009
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