Alberta Index - CITY: Edmonton’s website to calculate your eco-footprints

CITY: Edmonton’s website to calculate your eco-footprints

(AlbertaIndex, July 22, Tuesday) --- Calculate your impact on the environment at
http://edmonton.zerofootprint.net/, the eco-footprint website recently launched by Edmonton city.
The site focuses on people’s main activities involving travel, food and home. It also provides practical tips on how our purchasing choices affect the planet, and news on environmental issues around the world.

Whether you drive, take the bus or fly, your travel generates carbon dioxide. Getting the food to your table generates carbon dioxide and uses land and water. Find out your activities home generate an ecological footprint.

Managed by EcoVision Edmonton, the site urges people to travel smart, be yard smart, save energy and water, and reduce waste.

EcoVision Edmonton said the site is an online footprint calculator that measures your carbon impact and also shows you how to reduce it.

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