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30 Blogs For Reducing Your Family’s Carbon Footprint
As information about climate change and the damage it could cause continues to be discovered, more and more families are realizing the importance of managing and minimizing their carbon footprint. Making a difference in the health of the planet by making a conscious effort to reduce the ecological impact that your household has is the socially responsible, ethical thing to do. These 30 blogs all feature posts underlining the importance of that task, and offer tips, hints and tricks for turning your family a bit greener.
Energy-Efficient Home Improvements
Not only will energy-efficient upgrades to your home help the planet, they’ll also save your wallet each month by translating into noticeable reductions in energy costs. These five blog entries detail some of the upgrades you can make to turn your home into one that has less of an ecological impact, and will also cost less to maintain.
Green Home Improvements
Energy-Efficient Home Improvements That Might Help Sell Your House
Energy Efficient Home Improvement Products Will Lower Your Power Bills
How to Make a House More Energy Efficient
6 Energy Saving Home Improvements That Pay Off
Sustainable Dietary Habits
Making changes to your dietary habits is an effective way of reducing your carbon footprint while also enjoying healthier, more wholesome foods. These five blog posts detail not only the importance of sustainable eating, but also include tips for how to make the switch with your family.
Family Values and Food Sustainability
Why Food Sustainability Matters and Ten Things You Can Do About It
Sustainable Eats
American Feast’s Sustainable Food Blog
13 Ways to Create a Sustainable Food System
Recycling and Repurposing
The environment created inside a landfill is one that’s typically anaerobic due to how tightly garbage is compacted. The lack of oxygen in this environment means that even biodegradable refuse may not break down properly, which is one of the reasons why recycling is so important. Repurposing items that you might ordinarily discard can also help you save money, and will keep them out of your local landfill.
20 Repurposed Projects for Toddlers: DIY & Ready-Made
Random Recycling – Green Living for Modern Families
6 Household Items You Didn’t Know You Could Recycle
Meet the Zero-Waste Family
My Repurposed Life
Transportation
Changing the way that your family commutes to work, school and activities is a small but significant step in the direction of ecological responsibility. Carpooling, participating in ride share programs, and utilizing mass transit are all viable alternatives to driving a car with one or two occupants, and these changes do make a difference. These five bloggers discuss their experiences and share their knowledge about earth-friendly transportation.
Green Transportation Alternatives
Cars & Transportation
Ridesharing: Not Just Your Family Carpool Anymore
Carpooling & Rideshare
10 Green Family Travel Tips
Reducing Waste
While keeping garbage out of landfills and managing your family’s carbon footprint is of vital importance, learning to manage and reduce your waste as a group is a great way to instill the importance of green living in children, teaching them responsible practices that they’ll remember in adulthood.
5 Simple Ways to Reduce Food Waste
Homegrown Families
Earth Day All Month: Reducing Waste
Reducing Waste
How to Reduce Your Household Waste
Teaching Kids Earth-Friendly Habits
It’s important for families to reduce their carbon footprints as a household, but it’s also important that kids learn the necessity of living an environmentally-responsible life as they grow up. Good habits start when children are still quite small, and these five bloggers tackle the issue of imparting green values to little ones.
Four Ways to Teach Kids to Be Green, Naturally
Raising Earth-Concious Children
Teaching Kids About Sustainable Living
Simple Tips to Teach Green
Teaching Children How to Be Green
Remember kids, don’t fart and exhale, those things make the ozone layer disspear…
- Al Gorleone
You are born with a ‘carbon footprint’ because you are made of carbon. All this carbon talk is newspeak created by Big Brother so that people demonize themselves and welcome Big Brother’s intrusion on our freedom of mind, body and soul. Pollution is bad, no doubt, but 99.9999% of pollution has nothing to do with carbon. Carbon is the building block of life.