Carbon Footprint

A carbon footprint is a representation of the impact made on the environment, specifically global climate change.  Warming of our Earth is due to accumulating, heat trapping, greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (most commonly CO2, CH4, N2O, O3, SF6, and halocarbons).  Slight fluctuations in global temperature are a natural process, but since the industrial age human beings have pumped out unfathomable amounts of greenhouse gases.  This is measured in pounds of CO2

My House

2548 lbs per month
510 lbs per person
97% Home Energy 3% Transportation

Parents House
7115 lbs per month
2372 per person
29% Home Energy, 71% Transportation

The main thing that separates my household form my parents is the carbon emissions form transportation.  My dad is an engineer of GM and drives all around the metro-Detroit area.  Also my mom relies on her car to get to work and complete other motherly duties.  And to round it out, my brother just bought a new car and, like any 16 year old, is constantly out and about.