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What is Count Down Your Carbon?
Climate change is a major problem confronting our planet. By causing large amounts of carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere we have become major contributors to global warming. Unless we take action now we risk a future with habitat destruction, major species extinction, crop failures, and higher mortality rates due to disease, heat waves, rising sea levels and severe storms and droughts.
Count Down Your Carbon provides simple actions everyone can take to reduce their carbon emissions and stop global warming. It is a way for people to join together and register the impact of their many individual actions in a public and meaningful way. You are not powerless and you are not alone. Together we can make a difference.
After you take an action to reduce your carbon dioxide emissions you can register it on countdownyourcarbon.org and calculate how much of an impact you have made. If everyone registers their actions we can demonstrate to the rest of the world our commitment to stop climate change and show that even simple, everyday actions can make an enormous difference.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead
What Actions Can I Take?
The average American produces over 20 tons of carbon dioxide a year. Here are just a few actions you can take to reduce your carbon footprint:
Switch to CFLs, they are 4 times more energy efficient than regular light bulbs.
Planting a tree can reduce CO2 emissions by 1 ton over the tree’s lifetime.
Over their 13-year lifespan, Energy Star rated refrigerators emit 1,661 pounds of CO2 less than conventional models.
Adjusting your thermostat up one degree in the summer will lower your CO2 emissions by 500 pounds a year.
Use warm or cold water for laundry instead of hot and save 500 pounds of CO2 a year.
Purchase renewable energy.
Take public transportation and reduce your CO2 emissions by 90%.
Eat organic food and reduce your CO2 emissions by up to two tons a year.
Save up to 184 pounds of a CO2 year by recycling all of your newspaper.
Lower your impact by offsetting your CO2 emissions.
Visit countdownyourcarbon.org for more actions.