It might be hard to reduce your carbon footprint as a family but there are some easy steps you could take to live more sustainably. Biking is a good way to start. Biking is a sustainable, enjoyable, and rewarding mode of transportation that your family could start incorporating into their daily routine. For example, a family may decide to bike to school or work during certain seasons. Easy ways to reduce your carbon footprint in your family home are only running the dishwasher when it is completely full and making sure to turn the lights off when you leave a room. Investing in a water efficient toilet to help save water, or switching all your light bulbs to LEDs are some more difficult tasks, but that may help a lot. You could even start a garden in your front yard to have some fresh produce for dinner or switch to buying organic, locally grown produce.

I totally agree I think all of those are fantastic ways to decrease your families carbon footprint. Another thing that would help a lot is investing in an electric car. A lot of people think that it’s too big of a commitment or it’s too much money or even that it’s too inconvenient, when in realty that is incorrect. The government has many reword systems set in place so that if you transition to electric you get rebates which bring the price down. Adding to that, to get old cars that burn crazy amounts of fossil fuels off the road, the government also sends you money for trashing your old car and buying a new one, hopefully electric. Also, there are charging stations all over the city and in suburbs all across the world. Having an electric car doesn’t exclude you from being able to go on road trips. All that to say, moving forward it is a very good idea to look into getting an electric car as your new car especially if your car is getting old and doesn’t work properly.