
After releasing research that examined household carbon footprints nationwide, two UC Berkeley researchers are encouraging city and suburban residents to measure and make efforts to lower individual carbon emissions.
Led by Daniel Kammen, a director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory on campus, the research, which was published in December, focuses on accurately evaluating the carbon footprint of homes by approximating emissions from categories such as transportation, energy and food. Research findings indicated households in the central cities of large metropolitan areas were found to have smaller carbon footprints on average than suburban households. Sigue leyendo