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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Swapping beef with farmed mussels can reduce your carbon footprint, which lowers your environmental impact.28
A 100-gram serving of mussels contains 23.8 grams of protein, which is just 1 gram less than what's found in the same serving of ground beef.
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Jillian Kubala, Health, 8 July 2025
The final product is pipeline-grade RNG, indistinguishable from natural gas but with a negative carbon footprint.
—David Blekhman, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
On paper, companies that buy credits achieve a smaller carbon footprint without needing to reduce their own emissions — for instance, by paying another vendor to plant trees or capture carbon dioxide from the air.
—Danny Bakst, Fortune, 3 July 2025
Quite apart from the effects on cricket’s carbon footprint, the farce did nothing for their preparations.
—Paul Newman, New York Times, 18 June 2025
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Jillian Kubala, Health, 8 July 2025
The final product is pipeline-grade RNG, indistinguishable from natural gas but with a negative carbon footprint.
—David Blekhman, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
On paper, companies that buy credits achieve a smaller carbon footprint without needing to reduce their own emissions — for instance, by paying another vendor to plant trees or capture carbon dioxide from the air.
—Danny Bakst, Fortune, 3 July 2025
Quite apart from the effects on cricket’s carbon footprint, the farce did nothing for their preparations.
—Paul Newman, New York Times, 18 June 2025
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“Carbon footprint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carbon%20footprint. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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