Carbon Footprint Analysis Background Every year in the U.S. over 3.2 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions are released into the air‚ most of which are from human activities. The increased levels of carbon dioxide has been shown to cause global climate change (global warming). So how can you personally have an impact on global warming and the sustainability of the environment? First‚ you need to recognize how you contribute to the problem. Then you need to figure out how you can reduce
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My Carbon Footprint – Homework 9 According to the results of the carbon footprint calculator‚ I contribute to the greenhouse gas emissions. My behavior breakdown pie chart illustrates that my home energy contributes 44.8%‚ my driving and flying contributes 39.4%‚ my recycling and waste contribute 2.2%‚ and my food and diet contribute 13.6% to the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change and other environmental problems. My estimated greenhouse gas emissions are 43 tons of carbon dioxide
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Carbon Footprint: Carbon footprint means the total emitted greenhouse gas specially carbon by any organisation‚ event product or person. Woolworths is one of the largest company of Australia and despite this company trying to reduce their carbon production but still it producing heaps carbon.. (http://www.carbonfootprint.com/carbonfootprint.html) Measurement process: Using trees to offset carbon (tree planting) Why company should measure carbon footprint: * Demonstrate companies environmental
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The introduction of the carbon tax in Australia. Recently‚ the carbon tax issue has been gaining increasing attention in Australia due to its function of reducing greenhouse gas as well as its extensive economic impacts on a range of industries‚ such as tourism and hospitality. The conceptual meaning of the carbon tax is “a levy applied to various operations that generate carbon dioxide” (Covey‚ 2009‚ p.329). Such a tax is introduced to achieve a desired national emission target (Covey‚ 2009)
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Carbon-14 Dating: An Invaluable Yardstick in the Chronology of Humans Archaeologists utilize several methods to analyze data from the past. One scientific tool helps to analyze the radioactive decay of chemical elements found in plant and animal remains‚ pottery‚ and even rocks. Radiocarbon dating‚ also known as carbon-14 dating‚ has developed into one of the most important radioisotope dating methods archaeologists employ. This scientific tool‚ first developed by Willard F. Libby in the late
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Cycles in Biology Cycles in biology play a fundamental role in the world that we live in. Cycles occur all around and inside of us in many different forms‚ from the Krebs to the Calvin cycle. There are large scale cycles happening and they are essential in regulating the nutrients and substances that are around us which without‚ life on earth could no function. One of the largest cycles that occurs all around us is in everyday life is the carbon cycle. The current atmospheric
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By Maxwell Kudzaishe Bhosha Topic: Carbon emission abatement can be achieved by various means‚ for example‚ regulation (controlling the emitting of carbon on the same basis as governments control other pollutants)‚ by subsidising consumption of renewable technologies using wind or the sun‚ by subsidising non-carbon polluting technologies and by supporting research into innovative green technologies. Another way of achieving reduction in carbon emissions is a pricing scheme such as a cap-and-trade
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Adventures of Zircon and Carbon Zircon and Carbon were brothers from the Triangulum Galaxy. They are two twin aliens that stood 6’7 and were a stunning color of mint green. They traveled 2.7 light years to get to Earth for a special mission. The mission was currently unknown. They were rushed on to a spacecraft and only sent with coordinates and supplies to lead them along the way. The coordinates they had read “Latitude: -64.15164‚ Longitude: -10.58414‚ Distortion: 5.26.” The spacecraft finally
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Carbon‚ an element discovered before history itself‚ is one of the most abundant elements in the universe. It can be found in the sun‚ the stars‚ comets‚ and the atmospheres of most planets. There are close to ten million known carbon compounds‚ many thousands of which are vital to the basis of life itself. Carbon occurs in many forms in nature. One of its purest forms is diamond. Diamond is the hardest substance known on earth. Although diamonds found in nature are colorless and
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The Calvin Cycle Plants use energy from the sun in tiny energy factories called chloroplasts. Using chlorophyll in the process of photosynthesis‚ they convert the sun’s energy into storable form in ordered sugar molecules such as glucose. In this way‚ carbon dioxide from the air and water from the soil in a more disordered state are combined to form the more ordered sugar molecules. Carbon dioxide is captured in a cycle of reactions known as the Calvin cycle or the Calvin-Benson cycle after its
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