Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A measure of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a person, organization or state in a given time
Examples
“The trees in the Cachoeira reserve could never offset even a fraction of GM's total carbon footprint - a single Hummer (which the company started producing the same year it signed on to the GuaraqueƧaba project) would require about 50 trees to offset.”
“Corn-based ethanol has led the way here, and now we need to expand the universe of biofuels to include cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass or forest waste that can reduce our carbon footprint even further.”
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama to the Detroit Economic Club
“Janitors want to make green cleaning a reality in the Twin Cities by using only green chemicals that are safer for janitors and tenants, recycling more trash, and supporting a transition to day-shift cleaning that would save energy and reduce the carbon footprint of hundreds of buildings.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘carbon footprint’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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ENVI - general
abatement potential, adiabatic process, afforestation, albedo, alkene, anthropic activity, anthropogenic dis..., anthropogenic for..., anthropogenic, of..., olefin, atmospheric conve..., atmospheric tides and 229 more...
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EU Buzz - collocations
Multiword expressions frequently used in EU context. Many of them have a specific EU-meaning, some of them are topical in 2012 also outside the EU but have a relevance in EU politics. People workin...
absorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 1567 more...
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EU Buzz - noun+noun collocations
absorption capacity, absorption rate, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty, ACP countries and 302 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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My Little Phonies
Names for the next generation of My Little Ponies. Inspired by Star's list.
juggernaught, flamboyant, cuddly maggot, astrobleme, agroof, windburn, poshlost, crucifer, feedbag, dunderwhelp, nebelwerfer, bliss ninny and 453 more...
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EN - cool expressions
Trendy, funny or highly descriptive collocations
overstep the mark, open a big can of..., bad hair day, the icing on the ..., low-hanging fruit, ripple effect, big cheese, tackle an issue h..., root-and-branch r..., throw good money ..., open Pandora's box, place on the back... and 147 more...
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Earth-Friendly Organic Produce
An Ecosystem of earth/life-related words.
blueskycloudform, sojourn, reuse, reduce, compostable, habitat, ecology, bionomics, Eco-Art, sustainability, forest garden, biosystems and 47 more...
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recycle
recycling words for ma citz crs wrk
recycle, world, future, carbon footprint, think, deforestation, global warming, dream, freedom, stop!, you, me and 6 more...
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this modern world
Markers of the zeitgeist, don't expect all of these to go the distance. The great majority are taken from Paul McFedries's excellent book "Wordspy"
retail therapy, compulsive shoppi..., clicks-and-mortar, dot.commer, middlescence, boomeritis, dorian graying, sandwich generation, boomeranger, full-nest syndrome, wellderly, brand equity and 226 more...
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Environmental Words
Words dealing with environmental science, climate change, and the like.
co2e, cde, hypermiling, microdiesel, carbon footprint, feed-in tariff, sox, nox, oxyfuel, polygeneration, mw, egr and 93 more...
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Loaded Words Part Deux: Two Words Tha...
See also the list Loaded Words (wordnik.com/lists/loaded-words). Two ordinary words (i.e. not proper nouns--Berlin wall or Utah beach wouldn't fit here) that not only combine to make a third concep...
cotton gin, wagon trail, gold rush, democratic republic, wounded knee, wage slavery, rat race, manifest destiny, eminent domain, pork barrel, gateway drug, talking points and 43 more...
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