Beating Gas Prices While Lowering Emmisions

With gas prices averaging $3.94 a gallon the costs of driving a 97 ford explorer can add up just as quickly as the emissions.  The amount of emissions i create with my vehicle is 3x stronger than the average electric hybrid car, increasing my carbon footprint at the same rate.  I have been able to use my vehicle under 10 miles a week making my C02 emissions 51 ilbs per month.  This costs an average of this is 5 dollars a week and was a minimal change of life style. 

The Carbon Footprint and What We Can Learn From It

The Carbon Footprint shows our personal contribution to global climate change through monitoring co2 emissions we produce daily.  The big two categories of emissions are transportation and home energy consumption.  Home energy comes from anything use in your home that needs fuel or power to operate, the bi product of this is chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs) and hexafluoride (SF6).  Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission is comes from all of our vehicles and machinery that need oil to run.  The effects of these emissions is changing our home the planet earth, now trapped inside of our biosphere we live amongst these emissions as part of our home on a larger scale.  Humans have the biggest impact on the environment and our population is increasing as well as the amount of emissions we create.
Greenhouse Gas emissions are transferred into carbon equivalent units for measurement, this allows for comparison of the potential threat posed by different gases.

My carbon footprint household average is 1806 lbs. [819 kg.] of carbon dioxide per month.
This is equivalent to 903 lbs. [410 kg.] per person.
My emissions are 84% from home energy and 16% from transportation.

I learned by monitoring my energy use for this project I could use better strategies and lower my emissions for future months and save money by investing in more energy efficient apartment devices.  Overall I felt the carbon footprint helped me monitor my energy use and the awareness has benefited me slightly with minimal effort.

Learn to build from Nature

This is a Link I thought was a good video to watch

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pawlyn_using_nature_s_genius_in_architecture.html

Michael Pawlyn shows how we can learn to live from nature by copying its design to build a self sufficient world.  

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http://www.billmckibben.com/

History teaches about the future when thinking about how we got to this point.  Investigative thinking has lead us to question our world around us and previous actions can have a reaction.  The birth of mankind has been recorded on this planet and over time there has always been change, it is time for us as inhabitants of this planet to adapt for a new world is coming.  There are no new frontiers left to conquer the race to gather the earths resources is slowing.  Now all that is left to do is change the way we life and think, the earth is like our body it has its own methods for maintaining a level of homeostasis.  What we do to the planet has an effect the evidence is lining up.  This change from producing goods to recycling that same material will help rebuild the world.  Jobs that where once for producing plastic will be for making that same plastic into a raw material.  Resources are key to every aspect of our worlds, resources are what allow human life.  We can no longer afford to spend the strongest efforts of mankind fighting over the last bit of resource left in the earth.  "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."  Albert Einstein.  Its time to look at a bigger picture this world was here before humans so we only found this planet then explored it, we did not create it but we can destroy it.