The goal of Belding Green Initiative is to study the best ways to reduce the carbon footprint in the Belding area, and in order to achieve this goal the team has focused on 4 main ways to help better the environment of Belding.

These main ways are: Individual Transportation, Energy Efficiency, Public Transportation and Recycling. The individual transportation section they looked into vehicles that could be included in the town and that may reduce the carbon footprint, as well as the public transportation by suggesting ways to implement buses and taxis all over Belding available for all to use.


On the other hand there is Energy Efficiency and Recycling, which are two good ways to reduce the carbon footprint in Belding because the city doesn’t have either a good recycling method or a effective energy efficiency and have discovered ways to improve these two elements, Belding can be a little bit more eco friendly!

Ideas to reduce the carbon footprint

Percentage of carbon footprint emissors in the US

There are many different elements that produce a carbon footprint in the US that can be easily reduced if people put in the necessary effort. The main sources of carbon emissions are:


  • Transportation

  • Electric Power

  • Industry

  • Agriculture

  • Commercial

  • Residential


As you can see in this graphic, the largest percentage of emissions come from: transportation, electric power and industrial sources, and these are the main areas that this website is looking to tackle in the fight against carbon emissions and a negative carbon footprint.