How can you decrease your

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How can you decrease your
Eco-Footprint
The ecological footprint is a measure of human
demand on the Earth's ecosystems
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Pre-activity Questions(answer these before you
start)

• What is global climate change?
• 2. List which ways you think you are currently
  helping the environment

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Reflection 1

• By taking responsibility by planting trees in
  your yard and your community, how will you curb
  the threat to global climate change?
• List at least two ways.

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Reflection 2

• Describe how installing a shower head that
  decreases water flow might help curb the threat
  to global climate change?
• List at least three ways.

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Reflection 3

• This compact fluorescent light runs on a fraction
  of the electricity that it takes to run the
  typical incandescent light bulb. With your use of
  these compact fluorescent lights in your home,
  how might you be taking a step towards curbing
  the threat to global climate change?
• List at least two ways.

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Reflection 4

• How does your efforts of recycling
• in your daily life
• help curb the threat
• to global climate change?
• List at least two ways.

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Reflection 5

• How does the continual use of reusable
  lunch/shopping bags help curb the threat to
  global climate change?
• List at least two ways.

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Reflection 6

• Paper or plastic or...?
• Keeping in mind what you have learned about
  global climate change,
• what is ultimately the best response
• to give the store clerk?

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Reflection 7

• How might your keeping the car tuned regularly be
  a responsible step towards curbing the threat to
  global climate change?
• List at least two ways.

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Reflection 8

• How might your reduction in consumption of beef
  be a responsible step in helping to curb the
  threat to global climate change?
• List at least four ways.

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Reflection 9

• Love fruit? So do I... The fruit in the right
  bowl were grown in our state. However, the ones
  in the left bowl were grown in a foreign country
  and can be purchased in our stores seasonally.
  Which fruit should you buy to help curb the
  threat to global climate change?
• List at least two reasons.

Grown in California
Grown in Chili
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Reflection 10

• How might remembering to always turn the lights
  off when leaving a room be a step towards curbing
  global climate change?
• List at least two ways.

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Write a 25 word summary of your plans to impact
your own environment