How can I reduce my carbon footprint?
Now that you know your carbon footprint, here’s things you can do to reduce it
To reduce a carbon footprint within your home and your community, focus on sustainable transportation, energy efficiency in the home, reduce the amount of waste you produce, support local food systems, and look at making sustainable food choices. Do more walking, cycling, and use public transport more. Embrace the principles of reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Have a look at the great examples of personal and community sustainability actions on climate connected.
What you can do yourself
Aoife, Cork, decided that if she wanted to spend money in town she would cycle and not drive
Last year I got a bike from the cycle-to-work scheme. I decided that if I wanted to spend money in town I would cycle in and not drive.Location Wilton, Co. Cork Name Aoife Useful Links Department of Transport: Why your journey counts. Potential Impact: If you...
Tommy: had a sustainablility dream, and went for it.
I set up a 2.5 acre sustainable market garden. What started off as hobby gardening is now scaled up to about 2.5 acres in producing fruit and vegetables. I wondered if it was possible to produce food in a sustainable way, both environmentally and financially, and as...
Avril, Sligo, “Don’t make it a one time thing, make it a habit”
I Upgraded to reusable water bottles and tea cups, and started buying second hand clothes. Location Sligo Name Avril Impact: Over it's typical lifetime a re-useable coffee cup saves approximately 10kg of CO2 equivalent. What inspired you to do this?Further Education:...
What you can do with your community
Westside Community Organic Garden: Growing Together for Sustainability
In the heart of Galway’s Westside, a city community turned land that was not being used into a growing centre for sustainability, and connections between people. Set up in 2011, this project...
Coill Chormaic: A Community-Driven Model for Sustainable Forestry
Discover Coill Chormaic, a cooperative forestry project that was inspired by the life of Cormac ó Braonáin, a passionate campaigner for nature. This project brings together family, friends, and neighbors to plant a native Irish forest that supports the joined-up web...
See all our resources which have been made by our community partners to help you START and then GROW your community sustainability work
Build a Community Structure
Getting an effective team together is a vital step in the community journey to sustainability. We have broken down the actions and resources needed to do this into five key areas where you can build your capacities and skills.
SEE SUCCESS STORIES FROM PEOPLE AND THEIR COMMUNITIES
Some communities and individuals, just like yours have already made great progress on the journey to sustainability, you can see these stories here. Keep in touch and soon you or your community could have it’s own decarbonisation story to tell
Discover Your Carbon Footprint
Our Carbon Footprint tool is currently in development by Energy Co-operatives Ireland Ltd and Galway University. Please join our mailing list and we will let you know when it is ready to use. In the meantime find out about the sustainability impact of your behaviour choices
Make Valuable Connections
Get more people from your community involved in sustainability. Our dialog tool shows you how to get more people talking to eachother and how you can increase how local people become active in making sustainability happen.
