carbon footprint
noun
: the amount of greenhouse gases and specifically carbon dioxide emitted by something (such as a person's activities or a product's manufacture and transport) during a given period
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The bottom line is traveling slower reduces your carbon footprint, plus longer stays, and fewer destinations give you time to actually connect with a place.
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Taylor Haught, Kansas City Star, 10 Dec. 2025
The gas conversion will reduce the landfill’s carbon footprint.
—Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 7 Dec. 2025
As long as this behemoth polluter goes unchecked, the rest of the San Diego population can switch to electric cars, eat no meat and do a myriad of local actions to reduce our carbon footprint, and still have little impact as long as the big dog goes unchecked.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2025
The team of scientists from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), emphasized that their pioneering approach could potentially reduce the carbon footprint of construction materials up to 26 percent.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 Nov. 2025
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Taylor Haught, Kansas City Star, 10 Dec. 2025
The gas conversion will reduce the landfill’s carbon footprint.
—Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 7 Dec. 2025
As long as this behemoth polluter goes unchecked, the rest of the San Diego population can switch to electric cars, eat no meat and do a myriad of local actions to reduce our carbon footprint, and still have little impact as long as the big dog goes unchecked.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2025
The team of scientists from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), emphasized that their pioneering approach could potentially reduce the carbon footprint of construction materials up to 26 percent.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 Nov. 2025
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“Carbon footprint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carbon%20footprint. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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