Lower the Carbon Emissions on Your Summer Vacation

For my masters program, I researched an issue in biodiversity and a technology posed to help.

My topic was carbon emissions and the video below explores vacation travel and how it impacts your carbon footprint for the year.

 It also discusses cleaning up the U.S. electricity grid and shows sources to find how all states can move to renewable energy by 2050.  How can you make your vacation more green this summer?  I'd love it if you shared some thoughts of your own. 

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Digital Cameras: Tool for the Environment

 

Time-lapse digital camera,  photo - D.L. Cade (2013)

Digital camera technology has given professional photographers the ability to both capture the beauty of nature and chronicle it's threats in a way that is more compelling than ever. The same technology has put cameras in the hands of everyone with a phone and made a scientific discovery possibly with minimal costs and seemingly infinite applications, compared to the film technology of just 20 years ago.