All of you have calculated your emissions and you have surely discovered the unexpectedly high impact of some of your behaviors (eating meat, flying to a sunny destination, etc.) on your total footprints.
Are there any behaviors that you are really willing to change or to improve for the sake of the environment? What challenges do you encounter or think you will encounter while trying to change these things? What help, support, and insights from others would make your life easier with these new behaviors?
Let's discuss these issues and make our pledges here!
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Change Starts With Me First!
Before I calculated my carbon footprint I knew that I was not being proactive about saving the world. I am guilty for waisting water, not recycling, throwing food in trash, using too much technology, and most of all traveling to too many places. My carbon footprint was 16,767 per year.I am a disturbed by this number because I know that there are children all across the world in South Africa,India, and Afghanistan who do not have the resources that we have here in the U.S. so their infant morality rate is much higher. Knowing what I know now has encouraged me to start with me and change my habits then continue with my family. If we want to live long and healthy lives then we must have enough natural resources to sustain us. Here is a link to an article about 10 different ways to "Go Green and Save Green".
http://www.worldwatch.org/resources/go_green_save_green
I have decided to challenge myself and for an entire month commit to #3-Eating Smart and #4-Skip the Bot tled Water. I am not a vegetarian so this is going to be hard for me but I know that through this challenge I am making a difference!