The Effort/Methods to Reduce My Carbon Footprint and Emissions Ratings”
“The Effort/Methods to Reduce My Carbon Footprint and Emissions Ratings”
By Elaine
Unit 8 Project
I have never considered myself as person who was interested in saving the planet or an environment lover; however, even as a child I was always fearful of contributing to the growing pollution that I saw as a child growing up in a small town in Rochester, NY. I can still see the trash that lined the sidewalks and the garbage thrown on the highways. What always haunted me was the commercial where the Native American is standing on the side of the road with a tear running down his face because we’ve destroyed his once beautiful country with the spread of liter and smog. It was from that point on that I carried “guilt” and I could not drop even the smallest gum wrapper on the ground. It wasn’t until I became a teenager that I learned there were other things that I could do to conserve the energy of the planet – like turning out lights when leaving the room or planting trees to make to make the planet greener! Simple right? So I turned the lights out and made a contribution to a charity that was planting trees… Today, I am growing and coming into my “environmentalism”, (it feels like I’m joining a new religion). I am amazed to learn that environmentalism has a culture that includes lots of practices as well as its own language…
My hypothesis is that by that adapting and following a strict environmental friendly lifestyle, I can/will encourage other family members and friends to want to discover and introduce to each other more techniques to reduce our emissions footprint and improve our environmental footprints. To test my hypothesis I would make the case that not only are we helping to save the planet but we would all save a lot of money by being more energy efficient.
Thanks to an assignment/project in class I am now on a mission to reduce my carbon footprint and the carbon footprint of members of my families as well.
I began to
By Elaine
Unit 8 Project
I have never considered myself as person who was interested in saving the planet or an environment lover; however, even as a child I was always fearful of contributing to the growing pollution that I saw as a child growing up in a small town in Rochester, NY. I can still see the trash that lined the sidewalks and the garbage thrown on the highways. What always haunted me was the commercial where the Native American is standing on the side of the road with a tear running down his face because we’ve destroyed his once beautiful country with the spread of liter and smog. It was from that point on that I carried “guilt” and I could not drop even the smallest gum wrapper on the ground. It wasn’t until I became a teenager that I learned there were other things that I could do to conserve the energy of the planet – like turning out lights when leaving the room or planting trees to make to make the planet greener! Simple right? So I turned the lights out and made a contribution to a charity that was planting trees… Today, I am growing and coming into my “environmentalism”, (it feels like I’m joining a new religion). I am amazed to learn that environmentalism has a culture that includes lots of practices as well as its own language…
My hypothesis is that by that adapting and following a strict environmental friendly lifestyle, I can/will encourage other family members and friends to want to discover and introduce to each other more techniques to reduce our emissions footprint and improve our environmental footprints. To test my hypothesis I would make the case that not only are we helping to save the planet but we would all save a lot of money by being more energy efficient.
Thanks to an assignment/project in class I am now on a mission to reduce my carbon footprint and the carbon footprint of members of my families as well.
I began to