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First of all carbon footprint is a measurement of the amount of greenhouse gases produced by the activities in your daily life. One main source of greenhouse gas is burning fossil fuels. That includes the gas in your car and the coal burned at your power plant. Scientists have concluded that humans are producing more greenhouse gases than ever before. These gases trap heat in our atmosphere, causing our planet to warm up and changing our climate. (See References 1) Your carbon footprint, therefore, measures the amount of potential impact your daily life has on the environment. By reducing the amount of greenhouse gases produced by your lifestyle, you can reduce your footprint and help slow climate change on Earth. Many of the actions you take on a daily basis can measured by their carbon footprint. As your power usage increases, so does your environmental impact. Cars, homes and possessions all contribute to this impact by using energy, most of which is produced by burning fossil fuels. However, renewable and sustainable resources can help lighten your ecological footprint, even more so when combined with reducing overall energy usage when possible.
Canada’s dependence on non-renewable resources has contributed to global warming and climate change, which in turn has contributed to increases in disease, poverty, and violence. Short-sighted non-renewable resource development policies, such as the development of the tar sands in Northern Alberta, has led to water pollution, health problems, clear cutting, and social problems. The government should shift its focus from unsustainable energy sources and instead, invest in long-term clean renewable energy sources, that would not only help combat climate change, but also create green jobs and build new industries.
What can you do? The most important thing you can do to fight climate change is to contact your elected representatives to have them enact policies that will help solve the climate crisis. Get involved in your students’ union, campus groups or community groups who are also pushing for institutional and governmental change.
However, you can also change your personal habits to help save you money and reduce your ecological footprint. The following guide has been developed to help you make environmentally-friendly choices in your daily life but also to give you ideas of environmentally sustainable initiatives happening on campuses across the country.

Recycling Saves the Earth
Recycling different products will help the environment. For example, we know that paper comes from trees and many trees are being cut down just to produce paper. By recycling it, we can help lessen the number of trees that are cut down. Products made from raw materials that came from our natural resources should be recycled so that we can help preserve the environment.
Recycling Saves Energy
It takes less energy to process recycled materials than to process virgin materials. For example, it takes a lot less energy to recycle paper than to create new paper from trees. The energy from transporting virgin materials from the source is also saved. Saving energy also has its own benefits like decreasing pollution. This creates less stress on own health and our economy.
Recycling Helps Mitigate Global Warming and Reduce Pollution
By saving energy in industrial production through recycling, the greenhouse gas emissions from factories and industrial plants are lessened and the use of fuels that emit harmful gasses during production is also minimized. Recycling non-biodegradable waste (rather then burning it) will contribute a lot to help reduce air pollution and greenhouse gasses that depletes the ozone layer.
Recycling Reduces Waste Products in Landfills
Landfills are mostly composed of non-biodegradable waste, which takes long time to decompose. By recycling, we can lessen the waste materials that are placed into landfills and we are able to make the most out of these materials. If we don’t recycle, more and more garbage will go to landfills until they all get filled up.

We should take the following steps to conserve non-renewable resources.
1. Prohibiting wastage of resources:
Wastage of resources should be discouraged. For example, using public transport in place of individual vehicles helps to conserve valuable petrol. Use of ‘car-pool’ system where several people with a common destination go together in one vehicle, saves petrol. Switching off fans, lights and coolers when not in use, using cooking gas economically, use of pressure cookers, using tube lights in place of electric bulb are some ways of conserving non-renewable resources, which could help in a big way.
2. Use of substitutes:
Alternative sources of energy like solar energy, wind energy, tidal energy, energy from biomass (biogas), etc., can be used on a large scale to substitute the fossil fuels. Use of solar cookers and biogas for cooking must be encouraged. 
New materials are being developed to substitute non-renewable resources. For example, plastics are now used to make products that once could be made only out of steel. The use of atomic energy can lessen our dependence on coal and oil.
3. Recycling resources:
All types of metal wastes, glass and paper and plastic can be recycled and used again. The local kabadiwala collects all the junk and carp, which is recycled and used again to make paper, plastic containers and metal articles. Although plastic is not a natural resource n itself (it is man-made) but uses up lot of fuel in its manufacturing process. Hence, recycling plastic helps to conserve fuels. Recycling paper helps to conserve forests.
4. Repair and use:
In India, we do not discard any object or appliance that doesn’t work. We get it repaired and reuse it. The repair and use economy helps to conserve resources as it discourages production and wastage.

The wind the tides, geothermal heat (from the disintegration of the radioactive atoms in the Earth’s core) and the sun are just some of the Earth’s amazing natural resources that we can use to power our lives - but the Earth doesn’t just provide us with fuel for electricity and heat - there’s a myriad of other resources on offer all around us.

What are Natural Resources? * Air, water and soil * Biological resources - plants and animals * Raw materials (like minerals) * Space and land * Wind, geothermal, tidal and solar energy

Natural resources are often classified into renewable, flow, and non-renewable resources.

What are Renewable Sources?
Renewable resources are usually living and therefore can renew themselves assuming they are not killed off or over harvested. Good examples of renewable sources are trees (forests and woodlands) crops, and livestock like fish. Water and soil are also renewable sources, but they are classed as non-living.

What are Flow Resources?
The tides, solar power and the wind can be classed as flow renewable resources. They are all renewable but they do not need regeneration or re-growth.

What are Non-Renewable Resources?
Non-renewable resources are those, which cannot be replaced once they are used up or harvested. This includes fossil fuels, coal and petroleum.
Steel is widely used around the world for the construction of bridges from the very large to the very small. It is a versatile and effective material that provides efficient and sustainable solutions. Steel scores well on all the sustainability measures, and offers a broad range of benefits addressing the economic, environmental, and social priorities of the ‘triple bottom line’ of sustainability.

2013
Student 1
10/9/2013
2013
Student 1
10/9/2013
Customize It In Green.
Customize It In Green.

Rami Suwan
Zeid Fayez
Hamza Almukhtar
Kamel Ikbariah
8A
Rami Suwan
Zeid Fayez
Hamza Almukhtar
Kamel Ikbariah
8A
Done By:
Ahmad Rawajbeh
Bilal Odeh
Ahmad Karzoun
Sanad Smadi

Done By:
Ahmad Rawajbeh
Bilal Odeh
Ahmad Karzoun
Sanad Smadi

Key Concept:
Communication

Related Concept:
Adaptation, Resources, Sustainability

Global Context:
An inquiry into our creativity and forms of expression.

Table Of Contents: Page 1 | Cover Page | Page 2 | Titles | Page 3 | Table of content | Page 4 | The need | Page 5 | Research Plan | Page 6 | Research Findings | Page 7 | Research Findings | Page 8 | Research Findings | Page 9 | Research Findings | Page 10 | Research Findings | Page 11 | Research Findings | Page 12 | Conclusion | Page 13 | Bibliography |

Introduction
From posters and notebooks to cardboard boxes and magazines, paper is part of our daily lives. Paper takes up over 40% of our waste stream, we could save 41,000 trees from being cut down and greatly reduce our carbon footprint. Paper recycling is the process of manufacturing old paper products and turning them into new, reusable paper products. Recycling old paper products uses 60 % less energy than manufacturing it from new materials. When you recycle cardboard and other paper products you can create millions of new products. There are so many other products that you can make with recycled paper. Therefore the best thing about paper is that it is used less chemicals and bleaches, which is safer for the environment.

Conclusion:
What we have done in the past 3 weeks (Criterion A) Was mostly research which comes right under inquiring In criterion A (inquiring and analyzing) then what we did was researching about the problem and its effects such as recycling, sustainable living (explain and justify the need) then we created a research plan to help us move along with our needs and musts in time.
Then to help us create a product that is going to help our society, community, the world we looked at existing products and their problems so we can create a better product with less problems

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The basic raw material (iron) is the most abundant of all the earth’s elements, and steel can be recycled indefinitely without any loss of property or performance. Sustainability is built into steel products all along the supply chain, from responsible sourcing of raw materials through a manufacturing process dedicated to continuous improvement to the production of modern and efficient bridges.