Walk the walk
Get around with less machine power and more of your own steam power. If you Walk The Walk, or pedal the pedal, you’ll see the world around you and burn plenty of fat but no fossil fuel which means you’ll go from A to B without making any C.
Stay grounded
A sure-fire way to ruin a good holiday is to top and tail it with a plane ride that dumps huge amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases straight into the atmosphere. So stop jetting around and travel in a slower way – but in a better state of mind
All consuming
Everything we buy has an environmental impact, and chucking it out before using it up makes the impact bigger than it needs to be. So stop wasting and start All-Consuming. Use that pencil to the very end and turn those unwanted bread ends into a delicious bread and butter pudding.
Easy on the meat
Meat may be downright delicious but the way cows, pigs, sheep and chickens are reared uses lots of fossil fuels and creates lots of CO2 – more than the car industry. So go Easy On The Meat. Even chopping out several portions a week would make a decent difference.
Human heat
One way we can stop our planet from overheating is by underheating our homes. Heating uses more energy and creates more CO2 than anything else we do indoors so if you’re cold, leave the radiators off and wrap up in a jumper – or better still, with another person.
Plug out
Those chargers and speakers that you’ve left on needlessly, that light on in the other room, those machines on standby. While they look harmless enough, they’re sucking your household power supply like needy greedy babies and are costing untold tonnes of C02. Tune into the waste and Plug Out.
Stick with what you got
The latest phone in pink titanium. The latest laptop that’s 2mm thinner. Peer pressure and ad pressure means you’re incomplete unless you buy them. Trouble is, surplus consumption leads to surplus production and CO2 so far better if you can Stick With What You Got – and be happy.
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