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We grow organic food at the camp and when possible, buy organic or "fair trade." There's a better chance the food is grown in an eco-friendly way, and if it's locally grown, it didn't have to travel that far. This also goes for those double lattes — coffee often has a large carbon footprint because of the distance those beans had to travel to get here, and how they were produced. -
When out shopping, we try to go to stores or co-ops that keep packaging to a minimum. For example, we choose to buy the loose tomatoes rather than boxed or plastic-wrapped tomatoes. Also, take reusable bags to the grocery store. When it comes to resources, plastic is better than paper — but a reusable cloth tote-style bag is better still. -
We're not talking major upgrades here. We had switched from incandescent to compact florescent light (CFL) bulbs earlier. We have changed completely now to LED bulbs with energy efficiency of 80-90% compared to our conventional CFL bulbs. -
Drinking Water – the camp promotes the use of water filtered by the Life Straw community filters installed for drinking water. The salient features are - Hollow fibre filtration technology converts contaminated water into safe drinking water, removes a minimum of 99.9999% of bacteria, 99.999% of viruses and 99.99% of protozoan parasites, reduces turbidity (muddiness) by filtering particulate matter larger than 0.02 microns, meets the standard for the “highly protective” category of household water treatment options by the World Health Organization and complies with US EPA guidelines for microbiological water purifiers, can purify between 70,000 -100,000* litres of water, enough to serve community settings for several years, chemical-free, made of durable plastic, doesn’t require electrical power or batteries -
The term 'carbon footprint' has become tremendously popular over the last few years and is now in wide spread use across the media. 'Carbon footprint' has become a widely used term and concept in the public debate on responsibility and abatement action against the threat of global climate change. A 'carbon footprint' measures the total greenhouse gas emissions caused directly and indirectly by a person, organisation, event or product. With climate change high up on the political and corporate agenda, carbon footprint calculations are in strong demand. Numerous approaches have been proposed to provide estimates, ranging from basic online calculators to sophisticated life-cycle analysis or input-output-based methods and tools. Carbon footprint is actually a 'carbon weight' of kilograms or tonnes per person or activity."
