Capella University Carbon Footprint & Climate Change Discussion

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Your Household Carbon Footprint Report
Household Carbon Footprint Calculator
Home Energy
Transportation
Waste
Your Household Carbon Footprint Report
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Home Energy
Your Current Total
25,809
New Total After Your
Planned Actions
10,601
U.S. Average
Transportation
Waste
Your CO2
Emissions are
lower than the
U.S. average.
Keep up the
good work!
57,847
Your Planned Actions Are Equal to:
OR
OR
Saving
Planting
Recycling
775
gallons
of gas
176
trees
4,905
tons of
waste
Let friends know what you’re
doing to reduce CO2 emissions
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Small Actions Add Up
If 100 of your friends took these
actions, over 5 years their
households would avoid
7,604,141 pounds of
emissions, equivalent to the
emissions from burning
387,966 gallons of gasoline.
If you take all of the new
actions you’ve selected:
Dollar
Savings
CO2
Reduction
Turn down heating thermostat
on winter nights by 80℉
$249
2,517 lbs.
Turn up A/C thermostat in
summer by 78℉
$755
7,636 lbs.
Replace 12 incandescent light
bulbs with ENERGY STAR
lights
$48
476 lbs.
Reduce the number of miles
you drive on Vehicle 1
$204
795 lbs.
Replace Vehicle 1 with one that
gets 26 MPG
$653
3,527 lbs.
Reduce the number of miles
you drive on Vehicle 2
$51
258 lbs.
Your Estimated Totals:
$1,960
15,208 lbs.
By taking all of the actions
you are already doing:
Dollar
Savings
CO2
Reduction
Enable the power management
features on your computer
$13
129 lbs.
Wash your clothes in cold water
$18
180 lbs.
Use clothes line or drying rack
instead of dryer for 50% of your
laundry
$46
462 lbs.
Replace your refrigerator with
ENERGY STAR models
$38
387 lbs.
Your Estimated Totals:
$417
12,606 lbs.
Replace your window with
ENERGY STAR models
$150
8,880 lbs.
Perform regular maintenance on
your vehicles
$152
823 lbs.
Recycling: newspapers, glass,
plastic, aluminum and steel
cans, magazines
Your Estimated Totals:
1,746 lbs.
$417
12,606 lbs.
For More Information
Visit these websites to learn more about climate change and how you
can reduce your carbon footprint.
About Climate Change
EPA’s Climate Change
Site
A Student’s Guide to
Climate Change
Home Energy Use
EPA’s Climate Change
Site: What You Can Do at
Home
ENERGY STAR Home
Advisor
ENERGY STAR Home
Energy Yard Stick
My ENERGY STAR
Transportation
EPA’s Climate Change
Site: What You Can Do
on the Road
EPA’s Green Vehicle
Guide
Fueleconomy.gov
Waste
EPA’s Climate Change
and Waste page
EPA’s Sustainable
Materials Management
Program
Last updated on July 14, 2016
Carbon Footprint and Climate Change
Directions: Use this template to complete the Week 9 assignment.
Your name:
1. Examine the factors that influence the feasibility of proposed solutions to
reducing your carbon footprint. What are suggested actions you can take to reduce
your carbon footprint based on your results? Does the cost of going green limit your
ability to reduce your carbon footprint?
[Insert your answer here]
2. Compare and contrast existing solutions, conclusions, or approaches to reducing
your carbon footprint. Locate the “free” options and see how simple changes can
reduce your carbon footprint. Locate the “$” options and see how these approaches can
reduce your carbon footprint. In comparing the “free” and “$” options, which do you see
as most beneficial and why? Are any of the “$” options feasible?
[Insert your answer here]
3. Examine the factors that influence the feasibility of proposed scenarios for
reducing global climate change. We can start saving the energy from our home itself,
and later can implement these things on a much wider scale at the society level, then at
the city level, then district level, and finally at the country level and global level. Consider
how your individual changes can impact the global climate change efforts.
[Insert your answer here]
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4. Summarize the most effective solution to global climate change. Use the resources
provided in your course text, websites, and/or articles to help summarize the most
effective solutions.
[Insert your answer here]
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