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Eating, travelling, heating your home… What’s the carbon footprint of these activities and how can we make more climate-friendly choices?
The article offers the opportunity to calculate the carbon footprint and understand the impact of our daily work on this indicator for a sustainable future

Subject Area: 1. Natural sciences – Earth and related environmental sciences

Education Level: Secondary school

Education Use: Instruction/curriculum, Assessment, Informal education

Language: EN

Publisher/Institution: European youth portal

License type: Public Domain

Primary User: Teacher

Learning resource type (IEEE LOM): Narrative Text (theory)

Technical type (IEEE LOM): Text – Hypertext

Time to read: 30min

Learning outcomes:

• Have a general understanding of Carbon Footprint
• Have a general understanding of Energy Efficiency
• Have a general understanding of Sustainability
• Recognize the processes that involve the use of digital services and equipment
• Evaluate the ability of management to make green purchases
• Evaluate the energy efficiency of internal processes
• Create a list of behaviors to check
• Evaluate people’s behaviors
• Interview people to evaluate behaviors

DigComp competence area: 1. Information and data literacy – 1.3 Managing data, information and digital content

DigComp proficiency level: 4.Tasks, and well defined and non-routine problems

Link: https://europa.eu/youth/get-involved/sustainable%20development/how-reduce-my-carbon-footprint_en

Key words: carbon footprint, clothing, energy and waste, food, Sustainable Development, transport