Assess your Carbon Foot Print

Assess your Carbon Foot Print:

Introduction:

Everyone's talking about the need to reduce their carbon footprint. Do you know what that is? A carbon footprint is the total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused by one individual. In short, “carbon footprint” of an individual describes how much carbon dioxide is being emitted by an individual. Whatever impression, whatever impact you are leaving on the atmosphere. So once you have assessed your footprint, you can begin to figure out how to reduce it.

“Carbon foot” print is going to be the most important factor of your life. There is no doubt it will play vital role in the future.

Every body should assess their “carbon foot print” and according that they should go through.

Click here to know your carbon foot prints.

There is no lower limit for carbon foot print, even if you are emitting less than that average carbon foot print of an Indian, still you can reduce your carbon foot print. But if your result is more than that you have to reduce the co2 being emitted by you.

The average carbon footprint for an Indian is round 1.5 tonnes of CO2. This and other gases accumulate in the atmosphere like a blanket around the planet, trapping the heat sphere is like a footprint in the sand. In this case, it's an imprint on the atmosphere. So once you have assessed your footprint, you can begin to figure out how to reduce it.

There are some easy ways to reduce your carbon foot print:

1) Stop flying regularly or at least reduce your flying. You can't stop traveling but may be you can choose by train or other way of transport system

2) If you are driving a car, make sure it has a small engine. Or better than driving a car is to ride a moped. Better still is to ride a cycle, or even better, to walk or use a bus.

3) If you are driving a vehicle “don’t blow the horn “unless & until you need it.

These days most of the people use horn even if it is not necessary.

Blowing horn became the part of global warming indirectly

4) Air-conditioning to keep houses and rooms cool is on the rise in India. But that uses energy. Try to reduce the usage of A/C & cooler.

5) The next & most important thing would be to take responsibility for trees. Because trees absorb carbon. So you can make sure that tree conservation areas are well protected. It doesn't just reduce your CO2 emissions, but it also encourages insect life or wildlife and improves the quality of the environment.

6) Especially for ladies try to reduce your usage of “Cosmetics” unless and it is made up of eco friendly materials.

7) “Think globally Act locally “this is the powerful slogan to fallow each and every person to reduce global warming.

Every body should take the responsibility to reduce their carbon emissions.

8) Don’t break any items which are made up of Glass, recycling will consume the lot of energy.

9) Don’t waste water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10) The last and most important point is “negligence” this can lead to any of the above mentioned points.

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Ashok Peddi

Ashok "
My research interests lie at the intersection of technology, policy, and science. While my work is squarely focused on geographic information science (GIScience), I am interested in the processes and the effects of environmental decision-making. Much of my research is done in the context of multidisciplinary teams and designed to understand the social and environmental tradeoffs associated with alternative policies."

Advantages of Govt.Servants

Well I am myself a public servant, by default, now why I say that is not something I am going to share with you, but what I want to share is , why do people opt for govt. jobs when it pays you ,when you compare it with multi nationals also u get posted in far flung areas , broadly there are three factors
(1) Job security
(2) Less amount of work
(3) No accountability
(4) Power


People develop an attitude that they are secure and even if they don't do anything they will not be fired. In simple and good words its called job security, now what it means is that people start behaving in a manner which is totally unacceptable for example they will come late and leave early (Even if they have any work) even people who use to be sincere in their college days do it.
Now the second factor people joining any PSU have somewhere in the back of their minds a feeling that one has to work less in govt. &govt undertakings. Other wise I don't think that people actually join a govt. undertaking in order to serve their country.

The third one is there is no accountability if your work .If you work you a promotion in 3 yrs even if u don't you will get it in 3yrs. So why work you'll get your salary for sure only thing is u'll spoil your confidential report, that for such people that doesn't matter. They are happy photocopying despite being an engineer.

Last but not the least they think they are always on the ruling side so they have the power but this is only a false sense of achievement as there are no real powers.

Googling Gases!!!!!!!!

A Google search has a strong impact on the environment .One search generates approximately 7g of carbon dioxide(co2)i.e half of what a kettle of boiling water generates (About 15g).When a person searches a particular item in Google,his request goes to several servers which compete against each other.The request may sent to servers that are very far from one another There are servers of Google search in the US,Europe,Japan and China.Each server generates as answer and the one that is produced the fastest is sent to the person by Google .Though this system is efficient it amounts to high energy consumption .Also each of these servers or data centres consumes a lot of power.Google claims that it is in the forefront of green computing but it is nevertheless,leaving a large carbon footprint.
So try to type the URL in the navigation tool bar if you know the right URL to reduce the emission.
Source:Young World Hindu News Paper

Code language for diary writing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!