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
Maeve from Dublin stopped getting lifts and started taking the bus
"As simple as it may sound: get a Leap Card."Location South Dublin (D14) Name Maeve Useful Links TFI Travel Apps https://www.transportforireland.ie/available-apps/ Impact: 2.4 kgs CO2 per week, or 123 kgs CO2 per year: the equivalent of over 8 trees. My...
Home Coffee Maker Sustainability
"Small actions, like encouraging your friend make a change, helps"Location Galway City Name Ailbhe Useful Links Carbon Footprint of Different Kinds of Coffee Preparation Coffee: here’s the carbon cost of your daily cup – and how to make it climate-friendly Impact:...
Brian made a simple easy switch
"Just a small switch can have surprisingly good sustainability effects"Location Galway City Name Brian Useful Links Oat Milk Environmental Impact - Overherd Measure Air Travel Emissions. Teagasc Report on sustainable diets: balancing personal and planetary health...
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.
