'font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Tal Potishman
There has been a lot of attention paid recently to a person’s “carbon footprint” when people talk about using and saving energy. This popular buzz word has been all over popular media outlets.
What does “carbon footprint” mean? A carbon footprint refers to the level of impact that a person has on the environment. That impact takes into account all of a person’s activities and then measures that impact by the amount of greenhouse gases that those activities produce. The amount of greenhouse gas is then measured out in units of carbon dioxide. The level of emissions resulting from the amount of energy used by an action and the Life Cycle Assessment are the two most popular methods used to determine a person’s exact “carbon footprint.”
