How To Save Electricity - Save Our Planet

How to Save Electricity - Save our planet

May 13,2021

The climate is changing - but are you? Changes in the way you live your life - both big and small - can help you reduce your own personal carbon footprint, and also encourage policy makers to act for the good of the planet. Below is a list of several easy things you can do right now to help fight climate change.

The greatest threat faced by this generation is climate change. Because without a habitable earth to live on, what do we have left? But what can we do to tackle the problem? Wait for politicians to act and hope that they'll make the right decisions before it's too late? Waiting certainly hasn't proved to be an effective solution, with words so far being with little - if any - effective action. So it's more important than ever to take matters into our own hands.

1. Switch to 100% green power

Still haven’t switched to a green energy provider? Then now’s the time! Throughout the world, the use of energy represents by far the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity. Around two thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions are linked to burning fossil fuels for energy to be used for heating, electricity, transport and industry. And in Europe too, energy production and use, including the energy used in transport, accounts for some 80 percent of the EU's greenhouse gas emissions.

2. Save energy

It might sound like the most original-sounding tip around, but it's as relevant as ever. Saving energy not only saves you money - it also helps to cut emissions too.

3. Optimise your diet

In the EU, meat and dairy production is estimated to be responsible for 12-17% of total greenhouse gas emissions, while throughout the world, the global livestock industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all cars, planes, trains and ships combined. That doesn't mean that everyone has to become vegan or vegetarian - even a small shift in diets, with a reduction in meat and dairy products, and more plant-based foods instead, could reduce the pressure that agriculture places on the environment.

When buying fruits and vegetables, try to buy organic wherever the options (and the price) will allow. Organic foods are usually not only healthier because they contain fewer harmful substances, but growing them also protects the environment and the climate. You could even go one step further and help support local organic farmers by signing up to receive a veggie box directly from people who grow the food nearby, thus also helping cut down on the emissions caused by transporting produce throughout the world.

4. Avoid plastic wherever you can

Plastic is the all-round material par excellence and is therefore present in pretty much every aspect of our lives. But the durability of the material (which also makes it so popular) is of course also it's most drastic disadvantage: we're struggling to get rid of it. Plastic has found its way pretty much everywhere - on streets, in rivers, on the beach, in cosmetics, in waste water, in our clothing, even in the air we breathe. And there's also a close connection between climate change and our massive global plastic problem. Almost every plastic is produced from fossil fuels - and in every single phase of its life cycle, plastic emits greenhouse gases.

5. Protect our forests and plant more trees

It has long been known how important forests are both for the microclimate in individual regions and for the global climate as a whole. They "feed" on CO2 and convert the climate-damaging gas into oxygen, which is vital for our survival. A research team at ETH Zurich has compiled some fascinating figures: Two thirds of man-made CO2 emissions could be removed from our atmosphere if we were to reforest 900 million hectares of forests worldwide. Forest restoration “isn’t just one of our climate change solutions, it is overwhelmingly the top one,” said the lead scientist, climate change ecologist Tom Crowther.

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