Reducing our carbon footprint

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The need of the hour is to go green and reduce our carbon footprint.

Carbon footprint is a measure of the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases being emitted by the activities of an individual.

Sometimes the footprints we leave behind are easy enough to clean. But at other times they aren’t.

The carbon compounds we emit everyday, our carbon footprints often leave an indelible mark on our planet.

Gadgets that run on electricity leave the biggest carbon footprints. A regular air conditioner emits about 3 kilograms of carbon dioxide in an hour. A microwave oven generates more than a kilograms of CO2 and a water geyser emits nearly 3 and a half kilos every hour. All that adds up to a very large amount of carbon dioxide.

Today, we are using four times more energy than our ancestors did a hundred years ago. And along with burning energy we are melting away our glaciers and setting our forests on fire.

So it’s high time that we save energy andthink of the money we will be saving on our electricity, water and petrol bills.