Your Carbon Footprint

Your carbon footprint is the impact you are having on the earth, meaning resources you are using everyday, and the amount of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) you emit. Here are easy ways to reduce your carbon footprint:

• Carpool, use public transportation, walk, or ride your bike rather than drive by yourself
• Purchase reusable items like shopping bags, water bottles, and rechargeable batteries
• Bring waste free meals with you to school or work
• Reduce, reuse, recycle!
• Close the loop and buy recycled products
• Eat less meat- the meat industry accounts for 18% of GHG emissions
• Buy local and organic
• Use energy efficient appliances and LED or CFL light bulbs
• Use clotheslines rather than the dryer
• Taking shorter showers
• Turning the water off when not in use, same goes for lights, and other appliances

There are many more ways, but some are so simple you don’t even realize that you’re making a difference. Many of these techniques save money too!

All Systems Are Go!

The Haas Hall Student Waste Auditing Team (SWAT) now has a website up and running, as well as a blog! We have all been working hard to get everything to come together and to get the first audits done. Now most of the organization has been done, and we hope *knock on wood* that there will be few, if any, more obstacles anytime soon. We look forward to not only educating the school about recycling and its effects on the environment, economy, and everyday life, but the rest of the nation as well! We are launching a campaign in an attempt to get other schools and communities around the country to join in on this with us and do their best to be environmentally-minded. More information on this shall arrive soon! Thank you all for reading this and for your help in this, everything you do is greatly appreciated!