“It is our collective and individual responsibility … to preserve and tend to the world in which we all live.” —Dalai Lama
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What is a Carbon Footprint?
We all generate waste and greenhouse gasses through our everyday actions. Sadly, a lot of our world now relies on processes that cause severe harm to the environment. Making small, incremental changes, though, can create a massive ripple effect. An ecological footprint is your calculated greenhouse gas production through your individual, everyday actions. Depending upon your transportation habits, energy, and water use, you may generate as much as 9 global hectares yearly. To put this in perspective, if every person on Earth lived generating that same amount, we would need 5 Earths to sustain us. To learn more, visit some of our links!
The Latest IPCC Report
Click here for the full, downloadable report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Each chapter highlights various changes occurring, reasons for these changes, and future problems that will and are beginning to arise if we continue overusing resources and generating a negative impact.
Click here for a summarization and understanding of the key points from the IPCC report written by Matt McGrath of the BBC.