How can small manufacturing companies reduce their carbon footprint?

Statistics on which are the most effective ways to reduce carbon footprint?

  • Can anyone point me to any website/research that quantifies carbon footprint-reducing measures in the home - eg '10 most effective ways to reduce your carbon footprint'. I ...show more

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    High Efficiency appliances, high efficiency windows, more insulation, weatherstripping, eliminating the ghost draw (all the useless clocks and off lamps on TVs and stereos, coffee makers, etc.). There are lots of things to save energy, but don't buy into this carbon footprint horsesqueeze. That is just an arbitrary number designed to make you feel guilty about existing in the West. To honestly bring your carbon footprint down to zero, move into a cave, and adapt the hunter/gatherer lifestyle. http://www.energystar.gov/

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Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. ~Gregg Easterbrook Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. ~Author Unknown Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. ~William W. Watt There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. ~Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy The average human has one breast and one testicle. ~Des McHale The best thing you can do to reduce your carbon footprint is nothing, absolutely nothing ~Jim Z

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There is NO SUCH THING as a carbon footprint. It was all invented for one thing and one thing only. To make money from the idiots that believe in such a thing. It is also interesting to know that "carbon credits" are actually a tradable commodity, just like any other assett out there. They have no real significant effect on anything except someones bank account.

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There is no such a thing as Carbon Footprint, there is only a tax called Carbon Tax, which politicians believe will beat global warming and carbon footprint. If you are talking about pollutants, than it is human induced, and the most effective means to reduce pollutants is to halve the population. And charity should always starts from home. The number of human heads that really matter.

Bill

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