Primary 6/7 have been learning about carbon footprints. A carbon footprint is how much carbon dioxide you make because of your actions. Like when you drive instead of walk or when you keep the lights on in your house instead of switching them off. If you want to lower your carbon footprint then if you have a car try to fill it up with as may people as possible. Or you can always turn off the lights in your house.
We found out the schools carbon footprint using the BP online calculator. We found out that we produce 61 tonnes of carbon a year. Most of it was from our energy use, 55 tonnes in fact. That left only 2 tonnes for rubbish and just four tonnes for travelling. Altogether I thought it was exciting to find out how large our carbon footprint was because we didnt know before so it was a mystery because of that. We now know that we have to reduce our carbon footprint and should look at reducing energy use. We want to find out more about renewable energy as a way of doing this.
