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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What We Can All Change
Even though cleaning our clothes is something we all feel necessary, there are many more energy efficient ways to complete this process. For example many of us use dryers to quickly dry our clothes. However, dryers use a lot of energy to heat up clothes to dry them. Hang drying our clothes might not be as fast as dryers but it does save a lot of energy and completes the same process. An added benefit of hanging clothes is elimnating the cost of a dryer which can add up to finances. As far as actually washing our clothes, rather than using warm or hot water to wash our clothes, cold water can accomplish the same result. By heating up water, an unnecessary amount of energy is being used. Lastly, washers use up a lot of water to completely clean our clothes. Since California is in a drought, clean star applicances are reccommended to save water as well as energy. We can all become more economically freindly by changing the way we clean our clothes.