Your Human Footprint and what you can do to reduce carbon
Filed under: Environment, News | By: Daniel
Posted on: April 14, 2008 | 1 Comment
Many people know a little about their Human Footprint and how their lives leave a carbon footprint on the world, but millions do nothing about it.
What you can do to reduce your carbon footprint?
There are many ways you can help the environment and many more than I have listed below, but the 10 things below will be a great place to start and help the world we live in.
10 ways to reduce your carbon footprint:
- Make your home energy efficient
- Drive less
- Buy the highest gas mileage car for your needs
- Buy energy efficient appliances
- Recycle
- Replace your light bulbs with CFLs
- Buy local food
- Eat less red meat
- Lower your water heater temperature from 140 degrees F to 120 degrees F
- Buy carbon offsets for the rest and make yourself carbon neutral
Please leave a comment below on what you are doing and also any tips you have for others.
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Hi there,
This list is a great start and there’s so much more to do. One of the best ways to reduce your impact on the earth is to grow your own vegetables and fruit, keep a few chickens and conserve rain water and grey water for your garden. We have made a huge dent in our expenditure by growing our own stuff and keeping a few chickens for their eggs. It’s great fun for the kids, reduces costs, reduces refuse removal quantities because you are re-using your kitchen wastes in the compost heap (which the chickens love!) and the taste and flavour of your food is much better than produce trucked in.
The chickens keep the garden pests at bay, like snails, worms, bugs, snakes, spiders, scorpions and other nasties and give us the most amazing eggs. Even our dogs get to eat better because they love the raw food diet we feed them which includes veggies and eggs from our garden.
You can also buy a few solar panels and batteries and rig up some cheap lighting which pays for itself really quickly.
Blessings to you all!