Author Archives: Burak Ö., Aslınur C., Şükran O., Ahmet Ö., Amir L.

Bad eating habits are one of the most alarming problems related to ecological footprint. Meat, cheese, and eggs have the highest carbon footprint while Fruit, vegetables, beans, and nuts have much lower carbon footprints. Dairy products take massive part in our personal ecological footprint is because the dairy cattle need to feed on grass thatContinue reading “WHAT CAN I CHANGE IN A WEEK? (BY AMIR LALE)”

Households are accountable for nearly three-quarters of global carbon emissions, as these have been estimated to be accountable for around 72 % of carbon emissions on a global basis (Hertwich and Peters 2009; Wilson et al. 2013). The statics above tells us that our housing footprint is typically one of the largest sections of ecological footprint which has been creating a greater impactContinue reading “DORMITORIES AND ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT (BY AMIR LALE)”

Generally even if we do not notice, our actions are tend to be causes of carbon footprints. In our home, dorms or universities, we cause energy consumption indeed excessive use of energy especially electric energy. The first problem which i observed in AGU is automatic doors. It spends lots of electric energy due to students,Continue reading “WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS IN AGU,HOME AND DORM?(ASLINUR CARAL)”

Carbon Footprint is a measure of the environmental damage caused by human activities in terms of the amount of greenhouse gas especially carbon dioxide produced.  There are some reasons about  formation of ecological footprints. The first group include direct CO2 emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels, including domestic energy consumption and transport (eg carsContinue reading “WHAT CAN WE DO TO REDUCE CARBON FOOTPRINT?(ASLINUR CARAL)”

In every living places people consume a lot of things and this leads to increase their ecological footprint. So, I thought about this and I decided to reduce my carbon footprint. First of all, I live in a dormitory and in dormitory the ratio of consuming something is more than in houses because people don’tContinue reading “What can we change within a week? (Şükran Oksoy)”

Although Abdullah Gül University is 4th wordwide in the criteria of “Sustainable Cities and Communities”, I think, the campus itself has a crucial problems ecologically. Especially unnecesery use of electrical energy is a big problem but it can be said that there is a big progress compared the previous years when all the lights inContinue reading “Ecological Problems in AGU Campus / Burak Öztürk”