Reducing Your Carbon Footprint
1st: Caculate your carbon foot here
2nd: Set C02 reduction goal and take action to reduce your foot print and save $$$$.
Transportation:
- Plan errands for 1 trip not many –reduce miles by 20%
- Annual car tune up & maintain air pressure in tires
- Buy a more fuel efficient car
Home Heating and Cooling:
- Set thermostat 65 to 68 during day, 55-58 at night and when gone
- Or per degree you lower heat all winter
- Insulating your walls and attic
- Seal places where air (heat) leaks out of your home
- Furnace tune up (change air filters)
- Sealing and insulating warm-air ducts
- Purchase an energy efficient furnace
- Raise AC temp 4 degrees a year
- Set water heater to 120 degrees
- Insulating hot water heater
- Installing a solar hot water heater
- Installing double pain windows
Household Electric Use:
- Turn your TVs, CD players, DVD and chargers all the way off
- Turn your computer off 8 hours a night
- Replace or clean AC filters
- Purchase an energy star AC
Food Sourcing:
- Switch to vegetarian meals even one day a week
Household Appliances:
- Reduce hot/warm loads of laundry per week
- Reduce drier loads (use cloths line)
- Line dry for a whole month
- Purchase an energy star front loading washer
- Replace regular 60W light bulb with a 9W LED bulb (you’d be surprised how many bulbs you have!)
- Replace fridge with energy star model
- Purchase green power from utility company
Water and Garbage:
- Recycle 100% of items which are recyclable
- Reduce garbage disposed of from 90 galls a week to 60
- Low-flow shower head
- Reduce shower time by 5 minutes
- Fully load dishwasher
- Hand wash items in basin rather than running water
Yard:
- Plant trees
- Use a push mower instead of gas or electric mower
C02 Savings Per Year
- 450 to 4000 lbs a year!--FREE
- 1500 lbs per year-
- 2,000 to 10,000 lbs a year
C02 Savings Per Year
- 1400 lbs a year--FREE
- 130 lbs a year per degree lowered
- 1200 lbs a year TAX CREDIT
- 800 lbs a year
- 300 lbs a year
- 800 lbs a year
- 2400 lbs a year TAX CREDIT
- 60-240 lbs a year/ 3 mo FREE
- 150 lbs a year-FREE
- 175 lbs a year
- 2500 lbs a year TAX CREDIT
- 800 lbs a year TAX CREDIT
C02 Savings Per Year
- 600 lbs a year--FREE
- 500 lbs a year--FREE
- 350 lbs a year
- 600 lbs
C02 Savings Per Year
- 700 lbs per year/day/week-FREE
C02 Savings Per Year
- 100 lbs a year per load/week-FREE
- 260 lbs a year per load/week-FREE
- 130 lbs per mo you line dry-FREE
- 500 lbs a year REBATE FROM UTILITY
- 100 lbs a year per bulb
- 500 lbs a year
- 200 lbs per 100 kWh
C02 Savings Per Year
- saves 1,300 lbs a year-SEAMLESS
- 3,120 lbs
- 250 to 350 lbs
- 300 lbs per year per person-SAVE$
- 100 lbs per load-FREE
- 125 lbs
C02 Savings Per Year
- 25 lbs per year
- 1300 lbs if mowing 6/12 of a year
Information provided by Lynn Fitz-Hugh, TCAT Community Engagement Director