carbon footprint

Your food choices matter and beef ranks low for a climate-friendly diet.

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How to Fight Climate Change With Climate-Friendly Food Choices

Our food choices matter. This seems like an obvious statement: Choosing the cheeseburger with fries instead of that seasonal kale salad will probably impact your waistline more than the salad. …

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Earth Day Turns 50! Is it Time for a New Vision?

Earth Day Turns 50! This big birthday has been on my mind since I participated in a sustainability conference last fall where the theme of our panel was Earth Day…

A positive message is the key to engaging others in taking climate action.

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Climate Action: 5 Effective Lessons for Engaging Your Community

With the effects of our climate crisis making its way ever more into our lives, now more than ever is the time for climate action. You may be ready to…

Is the Iceland sustainability model reproduceable in the U.S.?

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Should We be Following the Iceland Sustainability Model?

I just spent a week in Iceland and was particularly impressed with the Iceland sustainability ethic. When I planned our family trip to Iceland, I’d been drawn to the stunning…

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Your Carbon Footprint

What are Carbon Offsets? How to Tell Which To Buy

In the battle to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, carbon offsets have been touted as a key tool for emissions reduction. But what are carbon offsets? And how can you purchase…

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Your Carbon Footprint

Are Carbon Offsets the Answer to Shame-Free Air Travel?

Do carbon offsets assuage guilt? Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, seemed to think so when they defended their prolific private jet use by purchasing carbon offsets. I must admit that…

Taking action is essential to halting climate change.

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Taking Action … What’s the Point if You Can’t Save the World?

Despair. That’s the underlying vibe I get these days from the environmental community. I understand. Taking action to protect the environment is an endless struggle for seemingly little gain. Even…

Walk to school or work to reduce your carbon footprint.

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3 Essential Ways to Reduce Carbon Footprint Outside Your Home

I recently wrote an entire post on simple ways to reduce your carbon footprint in your home, so it seems only fitting now to provide some tips on how to…