How to Use carbon footprint in a Sentence

carbon footprint

noun
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  • Combined, both practices are used to reduce the farm's carbon footprint and water usage.
    — Cristina Larue, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Homeowners add solar panels to save on utility bills or to lower their carbon footprint.
    — Demetria Gallegos, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Ethanol is typically made from corn or sugarcane and still has some carbon footprint, including from the tractors and fertilizer used to grow it.
    — Byian Mount, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The models also take a lot of computer power to train, and Gebru and others have been critical of the carbon footprint involved.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The overwhelming majority of our carbon footprint, 98%, comes from the operation of our jets.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Here is one easy trick to reduce hearing loss and gasoline fume inhalation, fertilize your lawn for free, reduce your carbon footprint, and give you back hours of time to enjoy fall afternoons.
    — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Another practical way for individuals to take control of their carbon footprint is reducing food waste.
    — Susan Puckett, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
  • To reduce its carbon footprint, BMW is trying something innovative if a bit icky: matte-finish paint made out of poop.
    — Sami Haj-Assaad, Car and Driver, 1 Oct. 2022
  • And masonry structures pose a challenge in terms of the physics of adapting passive building techniques — a set of construction concepts that lowers a home’s carbon footprint — to the stone.
    — Chris Moody, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Blonsky’s work saved thousands of gallons of water, diverted tons of waste from landfills, and reduced the carbon footprint for many company’s shipping operations.
    — Mayra Cuevas, CNN, 15 Sep. 2022
  • And a lot less is known about the carbon footprint of this sort of farming.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Then use the funds to reward those who maintain a low carbon footprint.
    — Will Tizard, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
  • That’s also when the state aims to zero out its carbon footprint.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
  • One of the grant’s conditions was for the city to devise and enact a way to reduce its carbon footprint.
    — cleveland, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The city is designed to be traversable by foot or rail, with a low carbon footprint.
    — Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2023
  • This also brings down the global carbon footprint on the tracker, so fewer discs need to be removed from the bag each turn.
    — Saira Mueller, CNN, 14 June 2024
  • Divide that amount of gas by the number of people in the world, and that’s the fair amount of emissions – the size of the carbon footprint – that each individual should cause.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2023
  • But some experts are looking at the carbon footprint of AI itself.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Hospitals, of course, are only one part of health care’s carbon footprint.
    — Time, 22 June 2023
  • The kitchen also sources local seafood to reduce its carbon footprint.
    — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The creative leap Arnold took was to frame the carbon in buildings in terms of those carbon footprint items we have been told about for years—your flight to Europe is a ton of carbon!
    — Lloyd Alter, Treehugger, 27 Jan. 2023
  • For instance, eating it twice a week instead of four times a week will shrink your carbon footprint by 25% and may also boost longevity.
    — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Denmark is set to become the first country to hold bovines accountable for their carbon footprint.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 26 June 2024
  • To reduce its carbon footprint, the deli will not offer plates or silverware.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 7 May 2024
  • Yes, there is a carbon footprint to cruises to Antarctica.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Bethany discussed ways to lower your carbon footprint when doing laundry and the need to understand the fabrics of your clothes.
    — Annie O’Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2022
  • That said, Cidon does agree that smart sensors in general create a large carbon footprint.
    — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Even for people eager to reduce their carbon footprint, the zero-waste goal can be daunting.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • According to the Nature Sustainability report, the synthetic fat’s carbon footprint is less than 0.8 grams of CO2 equivalent per calorie.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2024
  • Yet Nike has failed to shrink one aspect of its carbon footprint that the two men directly influence: travel on the private jets, which emit far more carbon per passenger than commercial airliners.
    — Rob Davis, ProPublica, 13 Aug. 2024

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