Individual sustainable lifestyle tips

Climate change, you know the drill. Believing in the 1% improvement thing / atomic habits I would start small but consistent. And also believing in the Management 3.0 experimenting culture I would run experiments. Some ideas:

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Household

Switch to green electricity

Buy more used / second hand stuff

Especially books and furnitures

Stop throwing away food esp. meat

Meat production is a big source of methan and CO_{2 .}Animal agriculture is responsible for 13% to 18% of the annual CO₂production, so throwing away meat is a big no no in my eyes. In Germany we throw away 18 million tons of food every year! Oh boy, that’s so sad.

https://www.wwf.de/2015/juni/das-grosse-wegschmeissen/

Eat veggie at least one day a week

It is easier to convince seven people to avoid eating meat one day per week than it is to convince one person to become a complete vegetarian.

There is a weekday veggie movement as well. In the old days folks just ate meat on Sundays.

Reduce consumption of milk and butter

There are some nice alternatives like Oatly’s Oat drink

Drink tap water

In Germany tap water is often of higher quality than bottled water. We bought a soda stream in 2017 and we use it a lot.

Use soap bars instead of liquid soap from a bottle

Why? Well, for one, it requires a lot more energy to produce liquid soaps (er, detergents, technically) — about five times more. For two, liquid soaps can come with up to 20 times more packaging than a humble bar soap, which is often sold in minimalist cardboard boxes, sleeves, or sometimes just loose and wrapper-free.

from

https://grist.org/living/whats-the-greener-choice-bar-soap-or-body-wash/