Simple Steps to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
May 6, 2008
You can do each of these steps straight away and they will begin to reduce your carbon footprint:
- Sign up to a green energy supplier who supply electricity from renewable sources such as wind and hydro-electric.
- Turn electrical items off at the wall when you’re not using them.
- Turn down the central heating (for those of you in the UK) and turn up the air-conditioning to 24 degrees centigrade (for Aussies).
- Turn down the water heating temperature a couple of degrees. There’s no point in burning yourself while you’re trying to get your shower temperature right.
- If you’re making a cup of coffee for one person, use enough water for only one person.
- Unplug your mobile after it’s finished charging.
- Run to the gym instead of drive. Not only will this stop you producing carbon dioxide from your car but you’ll ask yourself why the chuff you’re paying for a gym membership when you could be running instead.
- Recycle as much as you can. Or as much as your council will let you with their pathetic attempts at collecting your recyling rubbish.
Of course there are lots of other things you could do to help lower your carbon footprint but a lot of them would make your life unbearable or are just unfeasible to most people. I’ll list a few to give you an idea:
- Don’t drink bottled water. Unless your tap water tastes like shite and brown stuff comes out of it after a storm.
- Buy only organic produce. Great idea and possible in some countries but if you do this in Australia your house will be repossessed pretty sharpish and you can’t forget the ‘credit crunch’ these days.
- Grown your own fruit and veg. Hmmm, that’s ok if you’ve got a garden, you don’t rent, you have some idea of how to keep off insects and you don’t have to go to work to pay the aforementioned rent so that you can garden all day.
- Ride a bicycle to work. So that you get there in your suit all sweaty and get the nickname ’stinky’.
- Use biodiesel in your diesel car. Once again, not a bad idea except the governments around the globe tend to sting you for using it so much that you may as well not bother.
Anyway, that’s enough of that - you get the picture. A little is better than none.
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