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Everyone is talking about reducing carbon footprint….companies are now actively working towards it….what is it all about really?

Carbon footprint is how what we do…influences the environment and climate.
It is about how much of green houses gases are added to the atmosphere because of  our activities . The green house gases are released when we do many things like driving our vehicle, making a bon fire, burning any other materials etc.

The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse gases we individually produce and has units of tonnes (or kg) of carbon dioxide equivalent.

The carbon footprint is of 2 types:
Primary footprint and the secondary footprint

1. The primary footprint – This is a measure how we directly produce greenhouse gases. Lets say when we burn something….just an example

2. The secondary footprint – This is more an indirect way. For example… If I use a porcelain cup….this cup was manufactured and then transported to the shop and then I bought it. There might be a lot of CO2 emission from the raw material stage of the cup, to manufacturing it till I use it and it breaks. Even after it breaks….to dispose it, there might be some gases released. All this put together makes the secondary footprint

Carbon footprint can be measured for an individual, a company, group of people…anything.

Now there are regulations in place and hence companies are consiously trying to reduce the carbon footprint. This in turn helps in going green.
The more synthetic stuff we use, the more the carbon footprint would be. The more bio degradable stuff we use….the lesser the carbon footprint…and hence the better for the environment.

You can read a lot more from

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/carbonfootprint.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint 

This is good news for the world…..people are actually trying to do something. I just hope things are done faster before the damage is irrepairable

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