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Do you know your Carbon Footprint?

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The problems and interactivities in this feature will allow you to explore the impact of your lifestyle choices and help you to gain a better understanding of the contributors to global emissions.

Numbers to do with carbon emissions occur again and again in the public space, and we hope that these activities will help you to understand and compare them.  

 

Food impacts
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Food impacts

Age
11 to 18
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In this interactivity you are asked to pair off different food types with the emissions created in their production.
Comparing Carbon Savings
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Comparing carbon savings

Age
11 to 18
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This interactivity is designed to help you gain a better understanding of how changes to your lifestyle can reduce your carbon footprint.
Eating for a Better Planet
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Eating for a better planet

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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How do you balance the environmental impacts and nutritional benefits of different foods?
Comparing Carbon Footprints
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Comparing carbon footprints

Age
11 to 18
Challenge level
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This interactivity is designed to help you gain a better understanding of how your lifestyle choices can affect your carbon footprint.
Waste and Recycling
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Waste and recycling

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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Can you use the given information to work out how much plastic a family recycles?
Frosty is Melting!
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Frosty is melting!

Age
14 to 16
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Frosty the Snowman is melting. Can you work out how much less snow he contains when he is at half his starting height?
Minimal connector
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Minimal connector

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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Can you find the most efficient way to connect four towns?