Consider the impacts of your diet.
Meat and dairy have a higher carbon footprint than plants as dietary sources because the animals had to consume plants first. Animals such as sheep, pigs and cows emit a lot of methane which is 28 times worse than carbon dioxide as a GHG for climate change, plus the feeding, processing, cold storage and transport adds considerably to the emissions of your meal. There are many delicious vegetable based meals to try and less meat is recommended by many health professionals as beneficial for your health, and is much easier than you think. Here is an article for further reading.
Food miles.
The average Australian basket of food is calculated to have travelled many thousands of kilometres before arriving at your home. The decisions we make in our food purchases can have considerable effect on emissions. Shopping local not only reduces this effect it also helps keep wealth within local communities and helps build a strong and resilient local food network.
Drive and fly less
There are many ways to do this including walking, cycling, car pooling and using public transport. Walking and cycling will benefit your health and public transport with a book or podcast can turn your commute into a productive part of your day. Working from home will reduce the carbon emissions of your commute more than anything, as the Covid 19 pandemic has demonstrated.
Because aircraft emissions are released high in the atmosphere, they have a potent climate impact, triggering chemical reactions and atmospheric effects that heat the planet. If the aviation sector were a nation, it would be among the top 10 global emitters and is responsible for 12 per cent of transportation emissions. Can you reduce the amount of times you fly? Could you attend that business meeting via Zoom rather than face to face?
Get political
This is so important we have written a whole other post about this here