Tracking Carbon Footprint - Lici Mixson

 A carbon footprint is the total greenhouse emissions caused by an individual, organization, event, service or product. One way that scientists have found to keep track of carbon footprint of both people and events, by measuring the amount of CO2 that is released into the atmosphere and take into account all other gasses that are contributed to the rise of gas emissions. Nearly every thing that we do carries a carbon footprint from the food we consume, the clothes we buy, to traveling to and from work/school, there is usually a measurable amount of CO2 emissions. There have been new technologies developed to measure how much the average person emits per day/year, and there are even websites that can predict, by your lifestyle, how many earths we would need to sustain 7 billion people living exactly the way you do. Which is nice to see how the average person contributes to CO2 emissions, and can even help you find areas of your life to alter so that you can reduce your personal CO2 emissions. 

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https://www.greenmatters.com/p/how-is-carbon-footprint-measured