Reduce Your Global Footprint
Do you know how big your footprint is?
How many planets do you think it would take if everybody lived like you?
How much does our own pattern of living affect people in other countries due to the amount of resources we are consuming? How does the T-shirt you buy as a souvenir in Mexico drive labor practices in China? How does that banana in your smoothie impact the Amazon rainforest in Brazil? How does the pollution from cars harm the lives of fishing communities or migratory birds in Thailand?
An ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT is widely used as an indicator of environmental sustainability. It is commonly used to explore the sustainability of individual lifestyles in terms of their overall consumption patterns and uses of energy.
A GLOBAL FOOTPRINT stresses the need to examine our combined footprints and/or to examine the effects of our own footprints on people and environments in other countries and cultures.
A CARBON FOOTPRINT refers specifically to the amount of carbon an individual (or other entity) releases into the atmosphere due to their lifestyle habits.
We can each make a positive difference for the planet and its people by reducing our individual ecological and carbon footprints.
Here are some ideas to get you started:
1) Share your actions and ideas on your Green Passport page and/or in the Forums.
2) Examine your own ecological footprint.
Visit this site to find out how. http://www.footprintnetwork.org/
3) Calculate, reduce and offset your carbon emissions.
There are several organizations that will help you to understand how much carbon your lifestyle emits and will give you suggestions for how to reduce your impacts. In addition, they give us opportunities to 'offset' the emissions we just can't seem to get rid of.
As a final resort to reducing our carbon emissions and thus our global footprints, we encourage you to offset the carbon emissions produced by your flight to your study abroad destination. Carbon offsetting is a system whereby carbon emitters contribute funds (based on the amount of their emissions) to an organization which in turn invests those funds in projects that work towards reducing carbon in the atmosphere - usually projects which are developing renewable energy systems and/or planting trees. The Green Passport has partnered with Sustainable Travel International so that we can collectively offset our study abroad flights.
Please click here to offset now.
How many planets do you think it would take if everybody lived like you?
How much does our own pattern of living affect people in other countries due to the amount of resources we are consuming? How does the T-shirt you buy as a souvenir in Mexico drive labor practices in China? How does that banana in your smoothie impact the Amazon rainforest in Brazil? How does the pollution from cars harm the lives of fishing communities or migratory birds in Thailand?
An ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT is widely used as an indicator of environmental sustainability. It is commonly used to explore the sustainability of individual lifestyles in terms of their overall consumption patterns and uses of energy.
A GLOBAL FOOTPRINT stresses the need to examine our combined footprints and/or to examine the effects of our own footprints on people and environments in other countries and cultures.
A CARBON FOOTPRINT refers specifically to the amount of carbon an individual (or other entity) releases into the atmosphere due to their lifestyle habits.
We can each make a positive difference for the planet and its people by reducing our individual ecological and carbon footprints.
Here are some ideas to get you started:
1) Share your actions and ideas on your Green Passport page and/or in the Forums.
2) Examine your own ecological footprint.
Visit this site to find out how. http://www.footprintnetwork.org/
3) Calculate, reduce and offset your carbon emissions.
There are several organizations that will help you to understand how much carbon your lifestyle emits and will give you suggestions for how to reduce your impacts. In addition, they give us opportunities to 'offset' the emissions we just can't seem to get rid of.
As a final resort to reducing our carbon emissions and thus our global footprints, we encourage you to offset the carbon emissions produced by your flight to your study abroad destination. Carbon offsetting is a system whereby carbon emitters contribute funds (based on the amount of their emissions) to an organization which in turn invests those funds in projects that work towards reducing carbon in the atmosphere - usually projects which are developing renewable energy systems and/or planting trees. The Green Passport has partnered with Sustainable Travel International so that we can collectively offset our study abroad flights.
Please click here to offset now.
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