Poll - What do you do to reduce carbon use?

None of the above in the poll. By default, I've significantly reduced my carbon footprint because I don't have a life. I don't travel, I rarely buy new clothes, and I stay home much of the time. I try to cook more at home than eat out. Beyond that, I have not done much. I recycle, but I'm not vigilant. It's illegal for me to collect rainwater.

I see there's already been a lot of discussion about this. But you've made my point, if you haven't lived in these areas you might not be aware. Water retention is complicated and a large population with two rain barrels per household could effect effect others, even effect power supplies. It's not as simple as saying it's about corporate farming vs private, city vs rural. Combine current issues with 100-160 years of laws and opinions and you'll learn there's more than flippant response required.

I certainly don't have it. All I know is we should each do our best to minimize the use of treated water, and protect any untreated from contamination.

Our home is very energy efficient and quite small--smaller than most in the US. (Although not a tiny home or anything, because I'd go crazy with my family if we lived in one of those! ) Plus we keep it warmer in the summer than most people do and we keep it cooler in the winter than most people do.

DH rides a bike to work during all parts of the year where there is not actually snow & ice on the ground.

Our car is not a hybrid or an EV---for now (We have already decided that our next vehicle will be an EV.)---but, again, it is fairly compact and gets good gas mileage. We try to be mindful of our use of the car as well. We have mostly worked out a system where we only shop for food once a week, for instance. We live close to work and the kids' schools, but not very close to stores. So making ourselves stick to a once a week shopping trip helps reduce car use.

Now, we will stop at a local farmers' market, but they are ones we are driving right by on the way home from someplace else.

We do buy green power. We do go for energy efficient appliances. We recycle and compost everything we can, which is quite a lot. We also practice reducing and reusing, and we are always trying to get even better at that.

While our entire household is not meat-free, some of us are, and overall, even with those who do eat meat, our meat consumption is low. The people who eat meat may have it at lunch, when we typically eat separately, but I'd guess that at least 95% of our family meals are vegetarian. And that may be too low of a number, because I don't know if we've had one family breakfast or dinner this entire month that had any meat in it.



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Hey, I do that too! I didn't think of that one.

Hybrid check
Solar check
High efficiency appliances check
Will look into green power.
Buy locally as much as feesible....have year round garden,compost and recently joined a meat share with local butcher group.

^This^ and no kids.

Also, we reduce, reuse and recycle.

I don't drive enough to make a hybrid car make sense.  

Our electric co-op has a rate structure that reduces the cost savings associated with going solar.  

We buy high efficiency appliances but, mostly to save on water.  I think in all the talk on climate change everyone forgets how important water is.  Raising livestock is a huge waste of water (both for growing the feed and then raising the animals).  Our HOA makes us have grass in our front yard.  If I had my way I'd rip it out in favor of drought resistant plants.

We drive only Hybrid and electric cars
We compost
We capture water (with a bucket when heating up shower etc)
We walk when we can and take public transport
Our house has too much shade for solar panels


But we also:
Eat too much meat (though probably still way less than the average person)
I have a garden and water it
I buy too many clothes
We love cheese