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Your Carbon Footprint

Fun Factoids:

  • The average American produces about 20 tons of carbon dioxide per year
  • If your car got 2 miles per gallon better mileage, that would produce one less ton of CO2 emissions.
  • The energy required to get a cool, bottle of water into your hands is equivalent to the oil that would fill one quarter of that bottle.

Learn about offsets:

A nice study at Tufts.