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I found this article from National Geographic. However the article is some old. It was written in June 2007 :) Have a nice reading :)
Figure Out Your Footprint
As you cool your home this summer, you might well be helping to warm up the world. Air-conditioning and other power-hungry appliances are major contributors to the average household’s carbon footprint, a measure of personal impact on climate through the production of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
Average Annual Household Pounds of Carbon Dioxide Saved
1,000
If you recycle glass, plastic, and paper.
800
If you take the bus to work instead of driving.
720
If you line-dry half your laundry loads instead of using the dryer.
700
If you maintain a tight seal on your refrigerator door and keep the appliance’s coils clean.
55
If you replace a 75-watt incandescent lightbulb with a 20-watt compact fluorescent bulb.
Here are some ways to shrink your footprint’s size:
Online questionnaires are a way to calculate your current energy use. This calculator includes options for residents of the U.S. and Canada, as well as for other countries.
U.S. Climate Technology Cooperation
This carbon equivalency calculator translates units of greenhouse gases saved into easily understandable equivalents: gallons of gas saved, acres of forest preserved, and more.
This National Geographic consumer publication and website has many suggestions for following a low-carbon diet. The actual amount of carbon dioxide a household releases depends on the fuel sources used by its energy provider. The average American produces more than 22 tons (20 metric tons) of carbon dioxide each year. For more information on carbon savings, including carbon calculators for each room in the house, see The Green Guide’s Green Home section.

Shoes, that make an owner look higher, have been widely known since the times of the Ancient Greece. At that times such shoes were used in theater performances and resembled wooden or cork sandals with an elevated sole. In medieval Europe city streets were covered in sewage, and people had to put on stilt shoes – wooden soles with leather belts. They were put over average everyday shoes and called sabots. In the East shoes like that, named cabab were put on in the bathhouses for the visitors not to burn their feet on the hot floor. In Venice, starting from the XV century, women of different social statuses used to wear high platform shoes (up to 20 cm), that were called cokkolli – meaning “little hooves”.
High-heeled shoes had for a long time been worn only by men – women came to this fashion only in the XVII century. In women’s fashion some practical functions of a heel were replaced by pure esthetical. These shoes made a woman’s posture look grand, though at that times wearing high heels was connected with hard physical work, for the height of heels sometimes amounted to 20 cm.
Heels of the shoes were usually painted in different colours in accordance to fashion and season: blue, green, black. Red was a very important colour, for in the European countries it served as a symbol of aristocracy. In XVII the heels of the boots were painted black, and the red colour remained only by shoes (Mr. Red Heels was the nickname for French fops in the times of Louis XIV). Before the French revolution of the XVIII century only the court nobleman were allowed to wear shoes with high heels, painted red.
The history of heels continues developing. Thus, in the beginning of XVIII century the French invented the so-called “dove-leg” heel. Being concaved upward, it created an optical illusion of a foot being smaller, than it is. Famous stiletto heels were created in the XX century, and, unfortunately, the name of their creator is unknown.
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