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Investigate: Calculate Your Carbon Footprint Your carbon footprint is the amount you contribute to greenhouse gasses and global warming, as measured by units of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). You can calculate your carbon footprint at the Nature Conservancy website that will help you calculate your carbon footprint. Follow the directions on the site to enter in your information for home energy, personal travel, food and diet, and your recycling and waste habits have on your carbon footprint. The website will total up your numbers for each category to calculate the TOTAL amount of CO2 emissions you produce in a year, as well as comparing your carbon footprint to the average US citizen, and world citizen. You can offset your carbon emissions by planting trees and through other means. Use the American Forests website to calculate the number of tons of CO2 you produce, as well as the number of trees needed to offset your carbon footprint. You will summarize the information provided by the two web sites to include three to five sentences about how you could offset the amount of CO2 you are producing each year. The Nature Conservancy Carbon Footprint Calculator The American Forests Climate Change Calculator |
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