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Coming Soon – "Carbon Footprint: One Size Does Not Fit All" Documentary!
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Is that the alarm? Another Monday and it’s time to get ready for
work! Once you’re dressed, you get the kids moving and the breakfast
under way. You grab the morning paper just in time to hear the toast
pop up and the coffeemaker ding. Sitting at the kitchen counter, you
know that in 15 minutes you will have to engage in the daily ritual
of getting the kids to the school bus and hopping in the car for the
commute and then …but that can wait. For the next few minutes, it’s
just you, the coffee, and the morning paper…and the hundreds of pounds
of carbon emitted to the atmosphere from the energy that supported
just about every move you’ve made so far on this typical morning.
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Energy is such a part of our lives we don’t even think about it. What would
life be like if we didn’t have access to energy? What will our world be like
when everyone on the planet has access to energy at the level we access and use it?
"Carbon Footprint: One Size Does Not Fit All" shows how energy is used by
everyday families at three levels of energy use—industrialized, modernizing,
and developing. Following families in the United States, India, and Cameroon
to demonstrate how this energy use is reflected in carbon emissions, the
documentary then considers the question "What actions can we take now to
find reasonable solutions to carbon management while having adequate
access to energy now and in the future?"
Carbon Footprint is a coproduction of Prairie Public Broadcasting and the Plains
CO2 Reduction Partnership led by the Energy & Environmental Research
Center at the University of North Dakota, with funding from the U.S. Department of
Energy, the National Energy Technology Laboratory, the members of the PCOR
Partnership, and the members of Prairie Public.
Click here to follow our documentary film crew around the
world, as they visit families around the globe to obtain the film footage
needed to produce this documentary. Broadcast in the Prairie Public area
is scheduled for the spring of 2010.
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