Sentences with phrase «average carbon footprint»

My experience has been quite otherwise: over the years I've gradually, as circumstances permitted, adopted a lifestyle quite different from the mainstream, one that also (and initially by coincidence, as I'd not really heard of global warming then) gives me a considerably lower than average carbon footprint.

Now the excellent CoolClimate Network from the University of California, Berkeley gives the average carbon footprint for US households as 48.5 tonnes CO2e.

The average carbon footprint of households living in the center of large, population - dense urban cities is about 50 percent below average, while households in distant suburbs are up to twice the average: a factor of four difference between lowest and highest locations.

By 2020, the region - and production - weighted national average carbon footprint of the U.S. swine herd will be reduced 5 percent from a 2014 baseline of 2.87 lb.

Not exact matches

According to the company, 3L boxes result in a smaller carbon footprint than glass as it's 35 % lighter on average and 44 % smaller in size than the glass bottle equivalents.

Air - drying clothes can reduce the average household's carbon footprint by a whopping 2,400 pounds a year.

A while back, I wrote a blog on a Mother Jones - compiled fact sheet on the carbon footprint of the «average» American baby.

«It kind of gives you a picture,» said Kreider, who said he travels mainly by bicycle and estimates his carbon footprint is about a third of the average American's.

Assuming that the kosher consumer replaces the average American's four pounds of shrimp a year (and its 9.79 pounds, or 4.4 kilograms, of carbon dioxide emissions) with another fish, Canadian North Atlantic herring is a good choice: it takes around 5.28 gallons (20 liters) of fuel to purse seine (net using two trawlers) a metric ton of these small fish, according to Dalhousie, releasing about 117 pounds (53 kilograms) of carbon dioxide — meaning four pounds of herring have a carbon footprint of a mere 0.21 pound (0.09 kilogram).

This map shows the average household carbon footprint for different EU regions.

For starters, the environmental impact of bar soap is meager compared to that of its liquid counterpart, with one investigation finding that its carbon footprint is 25 percent lower on average.

The company sells no trucks and the EPA said in 2013 it already led all manufacturers in the U.S. with the lowest carbon footprint of 236 grams CO2 averaged per mile.

When looking at all 823 Minivans, Crossovers and SUVs assessed in ASG's 2018 Study, the Pacifica Hybrid maintained a 24 % smaller carbon footprint than the average large vehicle available to North American consumers in 2018.

The CX - 3's carbon footprint is 14 % smaller than the average vehicle in class, according to ASG's findings.

The Pacifica Hybrid also earned a class leading environmental performance rating in ASG's Study, with a carbon footprint that is 34 % smaller than the average vehicle in its segment.

The report takes a look at the effect of the book and magazine publishing industries on both trees and carbon emissions: the U.S. book and magazine sectors accounted for the harvesting of 125 million trees in 2008, and an average book has a carbon footprint of 7.46 kilograms of CO2 over its lifetime.

This is the closest possible departure point to where the whales and other wildlife are most often sighted, leading to reduced average vessel transit time and minimized carbon footprint.

Where HRG clients are also using the UK Rail facility within HRG Online, the results page will display a CO2 emissions average which compares the carbon footprint of both an air and a rail route.

We took a step there with a recent national carbon emissions per household map where we show interactively the average footprint for each US zip code.

At the end of the survey, the student's carbon footprint is presented and compared to the world average footprint.

(3) Carbon fee - and - dividend helps reduce income inequality, as, on average, low income people have a smaller carbon footprint than wealthy people.

After all, if they are successful in rolling back everybody's carbon footprint, the average lifespan should shorten accordingly.

Although the average Chinese person's carbon footprint is still much lower than the average American's, it is catching up, and is now on a par with the average European's.

That's the average American's total carbon footprint which includes the emissions from your home, car, air travel and everything you use.

CalStar bricks achieve an 84 % lower carbon footprint than an average clay brick.

With tiny homes» ability to use fractional amounts of energy compared to the average - sized home, it's easy to see opportunities to reduce our carbon footprint and improve our quality of life on the planet.

The 2030 Challenge for Products calls on the global architecture, planning, design, and building community, to specify, design, and manufacture products for new developments, buildings, and renovations to meet a maximum carbon - equivalent footprint of 30 % below the product category average through 2014 — increasing to 50 % by 2030.

The average American carbon footprint (from driving, home energy use, and flying) is approximately 18 tonnes of CO2 per year, but you can of course offset a portion of your footprint if you like.

The average American carbon footprint (from driving, home energy use, and flying) is approximately 18 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year, but you can of course offset less or more than that if you like.

Carbonzero, a Canadian leader of corporate carbon management strategies and solutions, and a provider of carbon offsets, found that Santa Margherita's Pinot Grigio has a carbon footprint of 1.67 kgCO2e / bottle, which is below the average footprint for a bottle of wine (approximately 2.2 KgCO2e / bottle).

But despite doing «pretty much [what] everyone's always told me to do,» when he plugged his lifestyle into a carbon footprint calculator, he found that his CO2 emissions were still double that of the average American.

Through extensive daylighting, a high - performance façade, chilled beams, and a trigeneration plant that produces electricity, heat, and cooling, the building reduces its carbon footprint by 72 % (as compared to an average office building in Australia).

Indeed, if one excludes carbon, global biocapacity exceeds the footprint of consumption by about 45 % in 2008 (the latest year for which data are available) and by an average of 69 % over the period from 1961 to 2008.

China's rapidly growing middle class now rivals that of the United States or Europe, and many millions of the most prosperous Chinese have carbon footprints well above the North American average.

What you fail to mention in your «uncertainty» and your hopelessly pessimistic comment about China and India is that the carbon footprint of the average American is 19 tons of CO2 per capita.

The irony that an average Indian's carbon footprint may actually be larger in death than in life is certainly not lost on Vinod Kumar Agarwal.

He also makes the valid point that just 15 percent of the population take 70 percent of the flights, and that they tend to be significantly richer than average, so that if governments are committed to reducing their carbon footprints, not cutting the amount of flying around that's done is fundamentally unjust to everyone else who has to cut back more.

Dear Pablo: Say an average fancy t - shirt holds carbon footprint of 6 kg but is never sold and sits in the warehouse of a textile / clothing production company.

A single bicycler riding 5 miles to and from work four days a week, can save on average 100 gallons of gasoline, 2,000 lbs of CO2 emissions, and reduce their carbon footprint on this earth by as much as 5 percent.

Moreover, they're doing if from a point of a much lower carbon footprint than the U.S. and a much greater sense of RESPONSIBILITY while the average American is still whining about his rights but never thinks about responsibility, when the average American talks about God and morality but doesn't have any sense of social responsibility, only selfishness (when will the world end?

This leads to arguably the best measure of current responsibility for climate change: the total carbon footprint of the average person in each nation.

Talk about lowering you carbon footprint: New Yorkers have the smallest carbon footprint in the nation — 7.1 metric tons versus about 20 metric tons average for the nation, with manhattanites have even lower than the city as a whole.

That way, the person who does a better than average job in limiting their carbon footprint, their fossil fuel use, would get more in this monthly dividend that would be deposited electronically in their bank account, or on their debit card if they don't have a bank account.

, Fast Company estimates: «150 tons of CO2 equivalent, similar to the output of 15 Hummers or 20 average Americans for an entire year, and a 16 % increase over the carbon footprint of a typical print publication.»

Climate scientists, with their much more modest life styles, can't match Gore and DiCaprio in the carbon footprint department, but nevertheless their carbon footprints are much greater than the average middle class individual owing to their colossal amount of air travel.

Motorcycles also got smaller carbon footprints as compared to an average family car.