Will you change your life to save the planet? 4

EcoBrits have begun a "Click for the Climate" campaign, asking the U.K. public to make a small lifestyle change in honor of National Science Week (March 10-19). Apparently, "Prime Minister Tony Blair will be turning down his thermostat, world record holder Colin Jackson will be taking the train, and Sir David Attenborough will be unplugging his mobile charger." Wo0t!

The BBC has set up a "Have Your Say" forum on the campaign, asking readers to leave comments on how they plan to change their lifestyle -- and the results are pretty amusing: "How about increasing death, take away all medication, and get rid of all people over the age of 60?" Ha!

I'm more interested, though, to find out what all you Gristmill readers think.

What will you do to reduce carbon dioxide emissions? Will you make a change to your lifestyle? Do you already try to limit your personal effect on the environment? What can you personally do to limit climate change? Or do you think you can't make any difference anyway?
Leave your thoughts in comments.
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  1. odograph Posted 5:52 am
    10 Mar 2006

    so farI've halved my electric use, and my gasoline use, but I'm still working on my natural gas use.
    I think the Kill-A-Watt generator you blogged about sometime back could use another plug ... it makes improvements pretty easy.
    If Sir David had a Kill-A-Watt he may find, as I did, that his phone charger uses essentially no electricity.  There ARE bad DC converters out there, but I think they are more often the no-name stuff attached to low-cost computer equipment, etc.

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  2. odograph Posted 5:53 am
    10 Mar 2006

    pfftproofreading failure: generator/monitor

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  3. alonovo Posted 8:39 am
    10 Mar 2006

    Life changing -Yes I will Sarah... although perhaps it is my version of middle age crazy. I left my (somewhat) cushy Oracle Corp. life behind (and a very nice compensation package) to found and fund alonovo.com.
    I wanted to create an easy way for people to have access to information about corporate behavior (corporate social responsibility) integrated directly within their purchasing experience. And I wanted to create direct economic benefit to great organizations such as the Sierra Club, NRDC, Global Exchange, CoopAmerica, Habitat for Humanity, United for a Fair Economy and many more.
    Now I am the world's poorest CEO but I wake up everyday passionate about the promise of a social values driven economy and how it may help many societal aspects (environmental, workers' rights, animal rights, energy, economic justice and education).
    What could be better (okay, all of the above ... and a positive cash flow!).
    --George

    alonovo.com: The Amazon product catalog, Social Values Shopping and Sharing with your favorite charity. The Intelligent Marketplace is here!

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  4. tracy Posted 11:02 am
    10 Mar 2006

    Reducing carbon dioxide emissions - domino effectWe dry our clothes on a line in the sun, a carbon-neutral method.  We did it yesterday, we did it back before Earth Day I in the early `70s.  Thus our daughter learned and now uses the technology, and you can bet that her 4-year old is helping her hang up wet clothes now, and thus also learning the technology.

    - tracy

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