Start your own
garden
and grow your very own
fruits and vegetables
Turn off lights,
TVs, computers,
when you do not need them
Instead of watching TV or
playing on the computer,
go play outside!
Ride your bike,
take the bus or carpool to school
Drinking Ripple is another easy
way to lower your carbon footprint.
1 gallon of milk
produces more than twice its
weight in greenhouse gases 1
Growing peas produces
69% fewer greenhouse gases
than growing almonds 2,3,4
1. Dairy Industry carbon footprint study, 2010: http://www.ars.usda.gov/sp2UserFiles/Place/36553000/presentations/2011/Chase Friday.pdf 2. “Life Cycle-Based Assessment of Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Almond Production, Part I: Analytical Framework and Baseline Results”. Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 19, Issue 6, pp. 1008-1018, 2015. 3. “Greenhouse Gas Assessment of Soybean Production: Implications of Land Use Change and Different Cultivation Systems”. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 54, pp. 49-60, 2013. 4. “Carbon Footprint of Agricultural Product – A Measure of the Impact of Agricultural Production on Climate