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
Joe oB: Bikes to work on the scheme that could work for nearly everyone
"Just do a re-think of your habits. Don't be a slave to inertia"Location Ballyboden, Dublin Name Joe oB Useful Links Bike to work scheme: LINK Cycling Information Sheets: LINK Impact: Joe saves 229kg CO2 emissions and about €900 per year. His bike also prevents the...
Brian – uses the train for distance commutes
"I think the benefits of that restfulness is a no brainer it's just ultimately much easier"Location Mayo Name Brian Useful Links Iarnród Éireann/Irish Rail and Sustainability: Link Impact: Brian saves 44kg of CO2 on each trip to Dublin taken by train instead of car....
Victoria, Wicklow, and ‘Fridays for Future’
" It's empowering, even if you're not getting the change you need, it still brings hope."Location Wicklow Name Victoria Useful Links Fridays for Future Ireland: Link List of Climate action groups for young people in Ireland (from Spunout, Nov 2023): Link Impact: There...
What you can do with your community
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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.
