{"id":1221,"date":"2021-11-01T12:51:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T19:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2021-11-01T12:51:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T19:51:58","slug":"our-carbon-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/2021\/11\/our-carbon-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Carbon Footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we learn more about climate change, it\u2019s important to reflect on our own personal impact on the environment. Change will only happen if everyone in this global community holds ourselves accountable to our behaviour and takes responsibility for our actions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please use this ecological footprint calculator <\/span>https:\/\/www.footprintcalculator.org\/home\/en<\/span><\/a> to find out about your personal impact on the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some important terms:<\/span><\/p>\n

Carbon footprint: a measure of how much carbon dioxide you create with your daily activities<\/span><\/p>\n

Earth overshoot day: the day by which we have used up all the natural resources that Earth can renew in 1 year. In other words, after this date, the natural resources we use are no longer renewable by the Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please answer the following questions in full and detailed sentences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. What is your personal Earth overshoot day? (1 sentence)<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. If everyone lived like you, how many Earths would we need? How does your number of Earths compare to the other average number of Earths from different countries? (2 sentences)<\/li>\n
  3. What is your carbon footprint (carbon emission) (tonnes\/year)? (1 sentence)<\/li>\n
  4. The average Canadian creates 14.2 tonnes of CO2 as found in 2019. How does your carbon emission compare? (1 sentence)<\/li>\n
  5. What do your personal results make you feel? Are you surprised? Shocked? Inspired? Worried? Why? (4 sentences)<\/li>\n
  6. https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/science\/how-canadians-can-cut-carbon-footprints-1.6202194 <\/span><\/a>Canadians are actually one of the top carbon emitters. One of the targets is to have the average personal carbon emission be 2.5 tonnes per person by 2030. Do you think this is an attainable goal (a goal you can reach)? Why or why not? (4 sentences)<\/li>\n
  7. https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/kidscbc2\/the-feed\/talking-to-your-grown-ups-about-carbon-footprints <\/span><\/a>Please describe 6 ways you can change your daily actions to reduce your carbon emission. (6 sentences)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As we learn more about climate change, it\u2019s important to reflect on our own personal impact on the environment. Change will only happen if everyone in this global community holds ourselves accountable to our behaviour and takes responsibility for our actions. Please use this ecological footprint calculator https:\/\/www.footprintcalculator.org\/home\/en to find out about your personal impact … Continue reading Our Carbon Footprint<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}