How to start living a green lifestyle?
Updated: Feb 13
If you're looking to start living a green lifestyle, the first step is to identify what types of habits you would like to start incorporating into your daily life. This may seem a little daunting at first but with a little time and effort, you will start to notice a difference in the way you are living.
Here are a few things that you can do to go green and inspire others to do the same ๐
Knowing your impact
Understand that all of your actions leave an impact on the environment. Get to know how much impact you create before making a conscious effort to minimize it. Did you know that Club Leaf can calculate your carbon footprint on their app for free? Download it here and get started on your green lifestyle journey.
Reducing your impact After calculating your carbon footprint, you can start making changes to reduce your impact on the environment. The green tips section on the Club Leaf app provides simple tips on things you can do to create a greener lifestyle. For example, you can make small changes such as turning off the lights in empty rooms instead of leaving them on, choosing to eat vegetarian food once a week instead of eating meat or cutting down shower time to 3 minutes. There are SO many things you can do to go green, so have a read through these tips and speed up your progress by focusing on the habits that leave the biggest impact.
Going carbon neutral You can always do more by offsetting your carbon footprint & helping our planet by supporting climate projects that foster land, energy and community projects. By offsetting, not only do you get to become carbon neutral more quickly, but you also help speed up CO2 avoidance and removal efforts. Read more about these projects here. Finally, get your friends and family involved: The more people that are involved, the more motivation you will get to make changes in your life.
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