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How to Decrease Your Carbon Footprint

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Changing climate conditions are a growing concern these days. Everyone is looking for large scale solutions, but few of us realize how much of an impact we can make as individuals. One way you can do your part is by reducing your carbon footprint. Here are some ideas to get you started:

1. Reduce, reuse, recycle.
This catchy phrase speaks volumes. The first and best place to start is by reducing what you use, reusing what you have, and recycling what you absolutely must get rid of. The “triple R” concept applies to everything from clothing to aluminum cans. Whenever you can, buy used. If you can go without, do without. And when it’s time to let go, don’t just throw it in the trash and forget about it.

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2. Use less water.
Contrary to what many think, using less water isn’t just about ensuring there’s enough to go around. There’s also energy usage to think about. Pumping and treating water takes energy, and the more water is used, the more energy it takes. The treatment process releases carbon emissions, so by reducing the amount of water you use, you reduce your individual contribution to emissions.

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3. Rethink transportation.
Most of us drive everywhere without giving it a second thought. Need to pick up a gallon of milk? Drive to the store. Event going on downtown? Hop in the car. Meeting up with friends? Car, of course. The truth is, the only reason we choose automobiles first is because they’re convenient. If we really thought about it, we’d realize that most of the time we either don’t need our cars or could use them more efficiently. If you can bike to work or the store, do that instead of driving once or twice a week to start. When you’re meeting friends, organize a carpool. If you live in a city with good public transportation, see if you can utilize it more often. There’s always an alternative to cars.

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4. Support your local farmers.
Our globally interconnected world can accomplish some amazing things, like shipping food from the other side of the world to the grocery store down the street. The problem is, that piece of fruit you’re buying had a while ride on the way and contributed heavily to carbon emissions. When you choose to buy local instead, you not only support farmers in your community, you also leave less of an emissions trail. Food that has come from a few miles versus a few thousand miles away really makes a difference.

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5. Embrace clean energy (or use less).
The future is in clean energy, and researchers around the world are working towards bringing that future to us sooner rather than later. You can do your part by switching to renewable sources such as solar power. Yes, the upfront costs can limit who is able to make this switch, but if you have the ability, you also have a duty to the planet you call home. If you’re not able to use clean sources of energy, use less of the energy you do have access to. Turn the lights off, unplug your devices, and realize how easy it actually is to get by with less power.
 
The warships in the ocean sure cause a lot of pollution. How about the politicians stop flying around in their jets and especially Al Gore. Really he is going to do a documentary about it and do the complete opposite? What a joke.

We really do need to support are local farmers no matter what.
 
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The warships in the ocean sure cause a lot of pollution. How about the politicians stop flying around in their jets and especially Al Gore. Really he is going to do a documentary about it and do the complete opposite? What a joke.

We really do need to support are local farmers no matter what.
The constant talk of air travel vs all the other elements that actually are causing the issues we have today. Total outage of travel is less than 1 billion tonnes, 76 billion tonnes of everything else, mainly fossil fuels still being used for energy.. It is so easy to fly and make it carbon zero yet who actually does that? Stop cutting down trees and start planting, the one trillion trees initiative is one of the best things to be agreed. We need more..
 
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Our contribution in reducing our carbon footprint? It's so simple. Just install our two-devices-in-one on any car (esp. diesel) and within minutes, emissions will be greatly reduced. Sorry, available only in our country where almost 500 units have been installed. Patents are filed in our country and in the USA (2019) and will soon be evaluated by US EPA. Pls see our videos on: nuvinuvi.blogspot.com
 
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Since our technology had been used in cars, buses, trucks, etc., we are planning to install it on roros, tugboats and soon, on large ships, God willing. These would be our crowning glory.
 
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KIP, I hope I did not misunderstood your question. Our technology is composed of two devices that help reduce 8% diesel opacity down to less than 1% (0.8). Since it work well on buses, we will install it on tugboats (for starters) and then to larger ships, of course with upsized versions. Please see our blogsite. Thanks
 
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We are carbon, we use carbon, we emit carbon, the planet has been through huge change in the past. The rates being mentioned are nothing in comparison to what early Humans had to deal with..
 
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I know very well that our country must have to reduce these carbon footprints, but we have a greater issue of smoke in our country which is due to greater traffic problems, our greater issue is the smoke pollution due to bikes, cars and other automotive.
 
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Reconsider lifestyle and try to go out of comfort at least a bit.


Power consumption per person example (going to extremes): a lonely educated adult locked down in their flat with a boiler, electric kettle, microwave oven, several laptops/desktops, hot shower, air conditioner in summer, hot floor in winter, even electric car charging near home; and working for a sophisticated ML algorithm feeding to server farms. Another extreme example will be contrary to the previous. This is not a surprise for many locations on the planet, right?

What was thought to be likely to happen 30-20 years ago is happening right now.

In many areas the weather went to extremes this summer, some ecosystems survival already under threat (Burning Siberia, boiling shores, etc.).

Think of people suffering already because the air conditioning system is not capable of working over a certain temperature, tropical nights, people escaping their cars in traffic jams of flooded streets.


P.S.: Being an optimist, I have checked for ML technology power consumption drastic decrease techniques are already announced. We need them for fast decision making together with an increase of awareness and action on Earth surveillance.