New Year's Sustainable Resolution
Would you like to reduce your environmental impact? Setting a sustainable new year’s resolution can be a great way to make positive changes in your life.
We can often go big on our resolutions and then struggle to stick to them, that’s why we want to suggest easy and simple resolutions you can start to ease sustainability into your daily life.
1. Personal
Responsibility: Take an assessment of your carbon footprint to assess the areas
where you use the most energy, and where you can cut down. Most people in
the United States produce over four times the world average.
2. Transportation and
travel: Air travel is the biggest personal contributor to greenhouse gases
according to several studies. Make serious decisions about your air travel, use major
airports only, reducing short connecting flights. Drive less, walk and
bike more, use our public transportation, and carpool. Reducing the
mileage of the average car from 15,000 to 10,000 miles a year will save more
than a ton of CO2. You will lose those extra ten pounds and be happier too!
3. Food: Reduce the
amount of store-bought meat in your diet, especially beef. A vegan
lifestyle can reduce greenhouse gases by 20% (The Guardian, 2017). Eat
fresh produce instead of packaged food, and choose seasonal and local,
preferably organic. Buying food from the southern hemisphere in winter
uses unnecessary resources, and our bodies evolved eating seasonally. Winter
squash, dried beans, potatoes and apples are versatile and store well, mix with
greens for taste and nutrition.
4. Organic Certification restricts the use
of pesticides, fertilizers and additives, conserve biodiversity, and are
healthier for you and the earth. Also, buy the amount you can eat and
learn to cook with dated produce, in order to decrease waste. Food in
landfills creates methane gas. Compost instead of trash, reducing
greenhouse gases and it builds the soil. Have your own garden, herbs,
greens, and other cold hardy plants do great in Grand County.
5.
Ban bath time! Have a no-bath week, and take showers instead. Baths require almost twice as much water. Not only will you reduce water consumption, but the energy costs associated with heating the water.
6. Home Energy: Insulate
and seal cracks to make your home more efficient. Lower your thermostat
by two or more degrees. Learn about passive solar techniques to maximize
the winter sun. Use energy efficient light bulbs and appliances. Turn
off the power strip to appliances not being used.
7. Consumption: Buy
less. Reduce and Reuse. Use your money to support companies that
care about the environment, they usually care about people too. Buy
from local companies and products, and use natural materials instead of
man-made. Divest from companies that support fossil fuels.
8. Give it away Before you throw something away, think about if someone else might need it. Either donate to a charitable organization or post it on a web site designed to connect pe ople
9. Take what you've learned, and pass the knowledge on to others. If every person you know could take one small step toward being greener, the collective effort could be phenomenal.
10. Vote: Support
candidates who support climate change mitigation and science. While individual efforts to reduce carbon emissions is important, governmental
regulations will make an even bigger impact by supporting 21st century
technology.
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