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Expand the description and view the text of the steps for this how-to video. Check out Howcast for other do-it-yourself videos from Chris_Davis and more videos in the General Green Living category. You can contribute too! Create your own DIY guide at www.howcast.com or produce your own Howcast spots with the Howcast Filmmakers Program at www.howcast.com Your carbon footprint is how many greenhouse gases you release in your daily activities. Be remembered by your good deeds, not your carbon emissions. To complete this How-To you will need: Deep concern for the future Sense of personal responsibility Step 1: Turn thermostat up/down Turn your thermostat up in the summer or down in the winter by just two degrees, and you’ll prevent hundreds of pounds of carbon dioxide from being released each year. Tip: Close doors to rooms that you are not using to maximize heating and air conditioning. Insulate windows and doors to save even more heating costs. Step 2: Unplug electronics Turn off and unplug your computer, TV, and other electronics when you’re not using them. Even electronics in sleep mode draw power. Tip: Leaving your TV cable box on 24 hours a day uses about 65% as much energy as a standard refrigerator. Step 3: Change bulbs Change all the incandescent bulbs in your home to compact fluorescent bulbs, which use about 75% less energy. Step 4: Do full loads of laundry/dishwashing Do your laundry or run a dishwasher only when you have a full load. It saves water and it’s an …
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November 15th, 2010 at 8:44 am
Goddessssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 15th, 2010 at 8:50 am
@wisesakura sod off hippie, the 60ies are since long over
November 15th, 2010 at 9:12 am
I have been radically changing my diet and carbon footprint this year, everybody. No it ain’t easy, but it’s not that hard either!!! Life gets simpler, healthier, lighter, easier. Keep making those baby steps to be a more conscious human!! We are all in this together. Every little thing matters.
November 15th, 2010 at 9:54 am
my carbon footprint? why worry what I fucking do when China is pumping Death in the sky and water everyday? Stop trading with China and ill consider what I do
November 15th, 2010 at 10:36 am
I love how the US carbon footprint is compared to wealthy countries where oil just comes out of the ground. Compared to Europe it would look a lot worse.
November 15th, 2010 at 10:40 am
Does the ight-switch on youtube actually save energy? Someone please respond.
November 15th, 2010 at 11:22 am
I’d like to know what Al Gore’ s carbon footprint is. Or for the annual IPCC United nations convention junkets like the last one in Cancun. Man made global warming is a fraud.
November 15th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Nice scare tactics. Im sure the kids are doing all they can to reduce their “Carbon footprints”. Maybe someone should tell Michael Moore to quit eating 50 lbs of beef/day (cattle create CH4) and tell Al Gore to bulldoze his Carbon Bigfootprint planes and mansions.
November 15th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
do people still believe it´s about the climate and not just about money and control?
November 15th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
LOL BLACK PEOPLE
November 15th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Check out the damage done to the environment done by privatization of water.By doing so they create devastating ecosystems.Right now the world is in a freeze England is frozen in sub zero temps.This is the result of the BP Spill in the Gulf Of Mexico.Private water and multinational oil are destroying the planet.They are the energy vampires.This is their cover story to make you feel guilty for breathing.Co2 is 1/38,000% of the atmosphere.Coke and Pepsi would kill you if Co2 was poison.Hahahha
November 15th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Fuck!!!!!!!!!!! Global Wamring is fuckin fake!!!! Can everyone just stop making sensless videos about it already???
November 15th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
loving all the mindless sceptics this has brought up. I bet the majority of you are americans and still bash the bible in church every sunday.
November 15th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
@FearISaWMD if only you knew the true extent of what it being put into the atmosphere on a daily basis
November 15th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
RED ALERT!!! There is no such thing as a carbon footprint!!! It’s just some propaganda some earth lover came up with to make money off eco-jackals!!!
November 15th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
@WOWJBEOWULF I do not trust the government or any institution or even humans for that matter… it is the social behavior of humans that grant governments their power, even if you protest, if a brainwashed soldier shoots at you you run, the solution education (->INTERNET) that is not governed by state, company or religion… U RE RIGHT… What world never had the ability? You mean Our Technological Society!?! It is not only the sun, but the sun+earth-moon are number 1 with few smaller varibles.
November 15th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
@2Draco39 Do you really believe the Government cares? We have never seen in world history a government that did not empower itself and lie about it for this stuff. We see more taxes, we see taxes on taxes, we see abused language to pretend there were no taxes. We also see bad science, the world never had the ability to affect our weather, that is the Sun; where I live the temperature varies by 30 degrees in a day, that is the Sun warming us and nothing else.
November 15th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
@WOWJBEOWULF only because it was a scheme of co and gore, doesn’t mean that we should stop improving our technologies ecologically (more efficient and less harmful to natur). Straining the bond with Gaia is like playing russian roulette with automatic guns; it is necessary for humanity to find the golden path between creation, freedom and sustainability… With Capitalism in effect taxes are the practical idea to push that progress forward, i am only against putting these into ones own pockets
November 15th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Carbon Footprints, the Hollywood Witch for awarded the Rube Goldberg student named Al Gore with a documentary Oscar, the film is a Red Herring designed to distract the public from tax-hound Gore. Al Gore, as Vice President, was authority of NASA, and those guys have to obey pie-in-the-sky Global Warming, that likely means warming his home, with his horror & gore stories. We see boondoggle and yet another Armageddon fear story, instead of truth about taxes. Seen that world death film in 1970s.
November 15th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Carbon Footprint is a fraud from Rube Goldberg student named Al Gore; the tax hound Al Gore knows the gasses were always there, and necessary to combust, we get water + CO2 from emissions, necessary to burn gasoline; gasoline that itself is a fossil fuel gathered from the air. Nothing has changed, except Al Gore wanting a new tax and United Nations authority over the World Domination conquest. To change temperature we have to affect the Sun output on Earth. Nothing changed, except more taxes.
November 15th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
@FearISaWMD
@FearISaWMD
Climate does change since the begin of time BUT we do speed it up now – that is no problem in itself, it only becomes a problem for us, because our fragile interdependent system of economy and society will not be able to adapt fast enough without tremendous struggles and fights and losses.
November 15th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
@FearISaWMD
Climate does change since the begin of time BUT we do speed it up now – that is no problem in itself, it only becomes a problem for us, because our fragile interdependent system of economy and society will not be able to adapt fast enough without tremendous struggles and fights and losses.
November 15th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
if i dip my foot in a charcoal/water solution, and press it on dry floor, that too is a carbon footprint…. lol
November 15th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Have you seen Food Print article in the January 2010 Issue of Food Safety Magazine?
November 15th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
The average temperature goes up a few degrees and the hippies say “OMG ITS THE END OF THE WORLD!! IF WE DON”T CHANGE WE WILL DIE!!”
Then it goes down a few degrees and the hippies say “Thats just statistical variance…. it doesn’t count”
The global average temperature is affected by volcanos, wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, floods, solar flares and a MILLION other things. Its nothing short of amazing that it manages to stay with in a few degrees of itself each year.
Paint me unimpressed.
November 15th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
lol i already do all of this I WIN FTW ME
November 15th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
They’re disposable cups for a reason, you i can dispose of them LOL fuck this
November 15th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Another bunch of green eco- fascists.
The patronising presentation is irritating at best.
If you want :
*To walk or cycle everywhere
*To Say goodbye to holidays abroad
*To Freeze in winter
*To eat cold food only
* To live in an unlit house
* To be a SLAVE to the New World Order
Carry on buying the climate change lies…..
November 15th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
@CactusBobsWorld well the hate is mosty generated from the Green stigma around this series…. ive watched them all and this is shit my family did on a daily basis sice i was born…. and guess what they did it kuz its economical not kuz its greem….
November 15th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
I have been radically changing my diet and carbon footprint this year, everybody. No it ain’t easy, but it’s not that hard either!!! Life gets simpler, healthier, lighter, easier. Keep making those baby steps to be a more conscious human!! We are all in this together. Every little thing matters.
November 16th, 2010 at 12:41 am
lol! drink tap water? the tap water here in pennsylvania is flammable due to fracking!
November 16th, 2010 at 1:12 am
Loool, I love how he puts the produce in the bag without paying
November 16th, 2010 at 1:15 am
@FakeApology Think critically about this, if someone does or doesn’t believe in something because of the title of it, they’re ill informed and hopeless to begin with. All we can hope for is for the younger generations to ditch the beliefs that are slowing us down.
November 16th, 2010 at 1:58 am
@kennethelp My point still stands. Standing in snow and saying the earth is going to burn makes you look a bit dumb, no matter the long run.
November 16th, 2010 at 2:16 am
@FakeApology In the long run, it’s global warming.
November 16th, 2010 at 2:43 am
@kennethelp Quit calling it global warming, this planet is not suffering from global warming, it is global climate change. It just snowed in 49 states a month or so ago, you can’t say the earth is just over warming. It confuses people and makes them think we’re the imbeciles.
November 16th, 2010 at 2:55 am
Radical reduction of the global Human population ensures carbon emissions also get reduced.
Excising the UN-proposed “life-tax” as part of its larger Global Governance Initiative, is a necessary monetary evil that’s critical to the regreening of Earth and the cessation of Climate Change now destroying our planet.
We applaud all those involved in the establishing and underwriting of the new Cap & Trade schema and salute key-individuals from the Private & Federal investment sectors for their help!
November 16th, 2010 at 3:16 am
If you don’t believe in global warming at this point, you’re a complete imbecile.
November 16th, 2010 at 4:14 am
@leebog31 a carbon tax would charge corporations, not the public?
November 16th, 2010 at 4:50 am
That dude just stole those vegetables!
November 16th, 2010 at 5:13 am
wouldn’t we accomplish the same thing if once and for all nations implemented population control?controlling world population would accomplish the same earth friendly results as ten million wind turbines,a trillion solar panels and an army of ed begley jrs!
that such a simple solution hasn’t been put into effect leads me to believe that something’s afoot, something most foul,begin all inquries with the gop.
November 16th, 2010 at 5:38 am
@TokiUltra rotflolmao
November 16th, 2010 at 5:53 am
the world weather is goin in a bizzare patternt and you guys still think global warming is not real ?
November 16th, 2010 at 6:42 am
Al gore can stick his carbon taxes up his anus for all I care cuz we ain’t paying that shit. Tired of this fake global warming bullshit. Tax the corporations not us.
November 16th, 2010 at 7:08 am
Im all for it.. not for the carbon bulllshit tho
just because most of this saves money
i dont wanna drink the governments water tho…
November 16th, 2010 at 8:02 am
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November 16th, 2010 at 8:17 am
I don’t necessarily believe that global warming exists, but I do think it’s a good idea to do things like recycling, reusing, passing on items, etc. Why would it not be a good idea if the items/materials can be used again?
November 16th, 2010 at 9:08 am
I have a deep concern for the future, am responsible, AND need an excuse not to clean! Where do I put in my bank account number? Oh wait, should I unplug my computer now? I’m confused.
November 16th, 2010 at 9:13 am
This video is so cool, i actually made a video about what could happen if the world were to get so polluted! Check it out, but don’t expect too much, nice video btw!
November 16th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Gore’s Carbon Print is the size of Godzilla’s with diarhea. If he & his banker business partners believed their own AGW propaganda, they wouldn’t live the lifestyles they do, another way to chalk it up as BS propaganda.