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!
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.