How to reduce your carbon footprint:
Most of our daily activities contribute to a personal or household carbon footprint.
The main areas are: transport, electricity usage, fuel, food and waste.
You can reduce your carbon footprint through your personal choices such as:
- driving more-efficient vehicles and maintaining vehicles
- using energy-efficient appliances
- insulating your home to reduce heating and cooling costs
- buying local and reducing transport kilometres
- installing solar panels
- reducing waste and recycling as much as possible.
Individuals and companies also purchase carbon credits to offset their usage. The money raised from this goes into projects such as planting trees or investing in renewable energy. Some useful links are:
https://sensibletransport.org.au/project/transport-and-climate-change/
https://www.greenfleet.com.au/
https://marketplace.carbonmarketinstitute.org/participate/