What is Carbon Footprint?

I came accross this article about carbon footprint in Haring Ibon, issue 32 by Dominic Gonzales of Manila Waldorf School. I have been seeing about this over the web but never really understand it, let's educate ourselves...

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc. The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse gases we individually produce and has units of tonnes (or kg) of carbon dioxide equivalent.

A carbon footprint is made up of the sum of two parts, the primary footprint and the secondary footprint.

Primary Footprint

The primary footprint is a measure of our direct emissions of CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels including domestic energy consumption and transportation. We have direct control of these.

Breakdown (46%):

1. Home: a. Gas, oil and coal (15%), b. Electricity (12%)

2. Transport: a. Private (10%), b. Public (3%), c. Holiday flights (6%)

Secondary Footprint

The secondary footprint is a measure of the indirect CO2 emissions from the whole lifecycle of products we use - those associated with their manufacture and eventual breakdown. To put it very simply – the more we buy the more emissions will be caused on our behalf.

Breakdown (54%):

1. Food and drinks (5%)

2. Clothes and personal effects (4%)

3. Car manufacture and delivery (7%)

4. House - buildings and furnishings (9%)

5. Recreation and Liesure (14%)

6. Financial services (3%)

7. Share of public services (12%)

Well we do now clearly see how vastly we affect the climate change with our little doings. So reduce you carbon footprint and do your part!

Reduce it now! Click here: CARBON FOOTPRINT CALCULATOR

Source and further readings:

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/

Wikipedia carbon footprint article

Photo attatchment courtesy of Wikipedia.

Quotable Quotes...

I wanna share with ya'll what I did while in the toilet, doin' 'you know what', hehe. These are just quotes about what's goin' on my mind just recently. I sent them to my 'globe text list' and managed to save just three, about friendship, personal and love...

"Friends save you from suicide, may it be physical, fashion, financial, love, emotional, social, etc. So whoelse would you call as your personal hero? A friend whose there when hope is almost over."

"I am so distracted with the world around me which I thought was mine that I forgot to realize that I haven't built my own steady foundation to even stand in this so called 'real world'. Now I'm shakin' with fear, struggling, dissapointed. Clouded vision should be cleared, I must get over this mess and re-group my derailed path, soon..."

"I'm not sure if I should give you my heart for I would be a fool again if you'd break it, but if I would not make a risk I might regret for the rest of my life what might have been. I could not decide, and I can't hide the fact that I'm probably lovin' you right now."

Hope one of these were routed to you...

My Coin Collection

Ei guys!!! I want to share with y'all my coin collection. I have been collecting coins since highschool but now I kinda stopped. Why did I came up to collecting these? Simple, we got lots of coins at home and it is just right for me to safekeep them. I got US coins, Japanese, Australian, some are European, Middle Eastern, and South/ East/ Southeast Asia. These were mostly given to me by my relatives who travel a lot. Oh, I almost forgot, of course I do have Philippine coin collection that dates back to Americsn Period, isn't that interesting, eh? Check it out, sooner or later you might be collecting too. I also have old paper money from our country, Saudi, HK and Singapore but failed to take pictures of them. Maybe next time, but in the mean time click or copy/ paste the URL link below! Thanks!

Click here: http://www.flickr.com/gp/9454685@N03/907W73