Every Little Bit Helps

People around the world are coming up with creative ways to reduce their carbon footprint.

Household efficiency may be the cheapest and easiest way to dramatically cut America's carbon dioxide emissions, reports Scientific American. The US could reduce emissions by an incredible 25%, just by making homes better insulated, installing thicker windows, and ensuring that future homes are more efficient.

Meanwhile, Japanese professional baseball players have vowed to shorten playing time by 12 minutes from the average 3 hours and 18 minutes per game. Nippon Professional Baseball released a statement saying, "When a professional baseball game is staged, a huge amount of carbon dioxides, a cause of global warming, is discharged because it requires use of energy to move players and spectators, supply electricity for lighting and other purposes and dispose of food and drink waste."

To be fair, 12 minutes is probably enough time to flush a toilet, eat a hotdog, and switch a light on and off a few times!