Your carbon foot print is a measure of impact that your daily activities have on the environment and on the climatic changes as well. This carbon foot print relates to the amount of green house gases produced in your day to day lives through the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, transportation and electricity. Your carbon footprint is the measurement of all green house gases that you individually produce and has units of equivalent carbon dioxide.
Your carbon footprint is made up of the sum of two parts namely a primary footprint and a secondary footprint. The primary footprint is the measure of your direct emissions of global worming co2 from the burning of fossil fuels including the domestic energy consumption and transportation. Human beings have a direct control of these. The secondary footprint is a measure of the indirect CO2 emissions from the whole lifecycle of products that you use – the ones associated with their eventual breakdown and manufacture. To put this all in more simple words, it can be said that the more you buy the more emissions will be caused on your behalf.
One can reduce ones carbon footprint by taking various precautionary actions. Turning off lights when not in use, opting up for green energy suppliers, checking out the central heating timer setting and by recycling grey water, the level of ones carbon footprint can be decreased to the minimum possible extent. Lastly, if you are serious about reducing your carbon footprint, then opt for organic and green products as much as possible